There is an extremely special queen in the history of the Qing Dynasty, although she was not deposed after falling out of favor, but her posthumous affairs were quite bleak, she did not receive the treatment of a state funeral, nor was she posthumously named queen.
Even after her death, her body was used as a stepping stone for the imperial concubine, and the funeral was extremely simple, even inferior to the specifications of the Qipin County Order. This unique and tragic queen in history is Qianlong's second queen, Nala.
Because her relationship with her husband Qianlong deteriorated due to the problem of broken hair, she was not posthumously sealed by Qianlong after her death, so that in history, people did not know how to call her, and could only call her Qianlong's successor.
Nala, born in Manchuria with a blue flag, and his father was a hereditary blue flag coat and leader Nerbu. Her family was not prominent in the Qing Dynasty, and her father Nerbu had nothing else to do.
The Nala clan was married by Yongzheng himself in the twelfth year of Yongzheng (1734) to Qianlong, who was still the prince, as a side blessing. However, the Nala clan was not the most favored among Qianlong's women.
Qianlong's love in his life was his original wife, Empress Fucha, and secondly, he was very fond of Emperor Huixian's concubine Gao. Due to the controversy about her surname in the history books, the historians can only call her Nala first, and her full name is temporarily called Nala after Qianlong.
After Qianlong ascended the throne, he immediately canonized the Fucha clan as the empress, and promoted the Gao clan to the status of the internal affairs office. According to the rules of the Qing Palace, only women who are registered in the Three Banners can be promoted to the rank of concubine or above.
Therefore, Qianlong made a lot of efforts to canonize the Gao family as a concubine. At that time, Nala was just an unnamed concubine. This shows that before Qianlong ascended the throne and in the early days of his succession, the Nala clan was not favored by Qianlong.
Qianlong's love is Empress Fucha, and his favorite is the noble concubine. It wasn't until the second year of Qianlong (1737) that he remembered to canonize Nala as a concubine and give her the title of Concubine Xian.
The title of Xian Concubine is very meaningful, "Xian" means "elehun" in Manchu, and it means quiet and peaceful in Chinese. Therefore, in history, the Nala clan may be gentle and sweet, and it is difficult for such a woman who does not fight or grab, and is gentle and elegant, not to be favored by Qianlong.
In the tenth year of Qianlong, the noble concubine died of illness, and when she was dying, Qianlong respected her as the imperial concubine, following the rules of the harem of the Qing Dynasty, and the status of the imperial concubine was second only to the queen. When the queen was alive, in order to take care of the queen's face, she usually did not set up an imperial concubine, but Qianlong canonized her as the imperial concubine when Empress Fucha was alive in order to rejoice the noble concubine.
Therefore, after the death of the noble concubine, she was posthumously named the concubine of Emperor Huixian. After the death of Concubine Gao, Qianlong remembered the sweetness and gentleness of the Nala clan, so he canonized her as Concubine Xian. In addition, the pure concubine was also canonized as a pure concubine, and Qianlong created a situation where the two concubines in the harem stood side by side.
The Nala clan was born in the Eight Banners of the Manchurian Banner, and her status was higher than that of the pure concubine Su who was born in the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, so the Nala clan became the concubine of the Qianlong harem second only to Empress Fucha.
Qianlong experienced the pain of losing his son and wife, and urgently needed to find someone to transfer his emotional outlet. The gentle and sweet Nala became his replacement, and she saw in the Nala Clan the shadow of the late Empress Fucha.
As a result, Qianlong decided to canonize the Nala clan as the second queen. However, due to Qianlong, who created a benevolent monarch and emotional personality, he could not immediately canonize the queen, so he canonized Nala as the imperial concubine shortly after the death of Empress Fucha, and let her take charge of the harem affairs.
Two years after the mourning period of Empress Fucha, Qianlong officially canonized Nala as the empress. Qianlong chose the Nala clan for three reasons: first, the Nala clan was a side blessing given by his father Yongzheng for marriage, and she was canonized as the queen to reflect filial piety; second, the Nala clan has a strong figure of Queen Fucha, and is a substitute for Queen Fucha; Third, the Nala family has no influence on the throne and will not affect the political pattern that has been stabilized after Qianlong's succession.
The sweet time between the Nala clan and Emperor Qianlong began 17 years after the death of Empress Fucha and ended in the forty-first year of Qianlong, which was eternally sealed. During this time, the Nala clan gave birth to Yongxuan for Qianlong, and Qianlong's favor for her reached its peak.
However, Qianlong's fourth southern tour became the end of this sweet time. During this southern tour, Qianlong's relationship with the Nala clan was very good, and Qianlong even celebrated her 48th birthday.
However, on the 18th day of the leap month, everything changed. The Nala clan suddenly disappeared during dinner and was replaced by the more favored Concubine Wei Jia. Qianlong used Nala's illness as an excuse to order Fu Longan to escort her back to Beijing.
However, Qianlong claimed that Nala cut his hair three times in front of him, which in the eyes of the Manchurians, meant cursing her husband. Qianlong was furious and had a plan to abolish the queen.
After touring Beijing in the south, Qianlong immediately confiscated the four treasures that canonized the Nala clan as a concubine, a concubine, an imperial concubine, and a queen, but this does not mean that the Nala clan was really abolished.
Qianlong's idea of deposing the post-Qianlong dynasty was opposed by the Manchu ministers of civil and military affairs, and everyone believed that the Nala clan did not have enough reason to be deposed. Qianlong also wanted to establish the image of a generous and benevolent monarch, so he could only dispel the idea of abolishing the queen.
However, he did not let go of the Nala clan, he dismissed all the palace maids and eunuchs in the Yikun Palace where the Nala clan lived, leaving her only two elderly palace maids, this kind of treatment in the Qing Palace, only the lowest status of the harem was promised to have treatment.
The Nala clan was actually not abolished, and her Yikun Palace also became a cold palace, and after being treated coldly and violently by Qianlong for more than a year, the Nala clan died.
After the death of Queen Nala, the funeral was extremely simple, even inferior to the funeral cost of Qipin**. Although Emperor Qianlong did not abolish her title of empress, he did not posthumously give her the title of empress.
Moreover, according to the records, the entire funeral of the Nala clan only cost two hundred and seventy-seven dollars of silver, which shows that in Qianlong's heart, the queen of the Nala clan has been deeply hated by him. Empress Nala was the only queen of the Qing Dynasty whose name still existed, but after her death, she was buried below the rank of concubine.
According to the rules of the Qing Palace, the queen should be buried in the imperial mausoleum after her death, and the queen, the imperial concubine, the concubine, and the woman of the concubine level should have the god tablet to be enshrined in the imperial mausoleum to receive offerings and sacrifices after death.
However, Emperor Qianlong did not let people worship her god tablet after her death, and even the burial place stuffed her into the mausoleum of the noble concubine, as if to give the noble concubine a foot.
This is clearly not the treatment that a queen should be. In addition, Emperor Qianlong also strictly forbade the disclosure of the burial place of Empress Nala, and only the guards of the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty knew that Nala and the noble concubine were buried together.
Until the ** period, Qianlong's Yuling was stolen, and later the noble concubine's underground palace was also stolen. It was not until the 80s that New China cleaned up and protected the underground palace of the noble concubine, which confirmed that Qianlong succeeded the Nala clan and the noble concubine buried together.
After the death of Empress Nala, Emperor Qianlong was disgusted not only with herself, but also with her maiden family. Previously, in order to canonize her as the queen, Qianlong carried her entire family from the blue flag to the yellow flag.
However, after her death, Qianlong sent all her family back to the Zhenglan Banner, and also removed the Nala family's hereditary position as the leader. To make matters worse, the twelve sons of the Nala clan and Qianlong, Yongxuan, were also disgusted by Qianlong.
First of all, Yongxuan must have completely lost the qualification to inherit the throne, and secondly, Qianlong no longer summoned Yongxi, nor did he give Yongxuan a knighthood. Yongxuan, who was only 15 years old, witnessed the change of his parents, and he was disgusted by his father because of his mother, so Yongxuan, who was supposed to be a cheerful teenager, became depressed.
Ten years later, at the age of 25, Yonghui died of depression. After Yongxi's death, Qianlong didn't look at him again, but just buried Yongxuan with ordinary clan rites, and he was not buried according to the prince's etiquette.
It wasn't until after Jiaqing became pro-government that Jiaqing took pity on this brother and posthumously awarded him the title of Baylor.
During the Qianlong period, the cruelty of ** made the official ambiguous about the true situation of the Nala clan and Qianlong's opposite, and the people were not allowed to discuss this matter. It was not until the late Qing Dynasty that various versions of the reasons for the opposition began to circulate among the people.
Among them, the most popular theory is that the Nala clan dissuaded Qianlong's southern tour and was dissatisfied with Qianlong's amorous nature. The southern tour is an act of laboring the people and hurting money, and Qianlong often takes this opportunity to travel to the people, looking for flowers and willows.
Nala was dissatisfied with this and hoped that Qianlong would stop his southern tour and not indulge in wine. However, Qianlong was very unhappy with Nala's rebellious behavior, and he wanted his wife to be a gentle and virtuous bird.
Therefore, he thought that Nala was not such a person, so he reprimanded her, which eventually led to the Nala clan's hair being cut off to persuade Qianlong, and the two turned against each other.
According to legend, Concubine Wei Jia once framed the queen of the Nala clan. After the Nala clan fell out of favor, Concubine Ling and her son Yan became the biggest beneficiaries. Concubine Ling was directly promoted to the imperial concubine after the Nala clan fell out of favor, replacing the Nala clan as the power of Qianlong's harem.
Although Concubine Ling was not canonized as the queen during her lifetime, she was posthumously named Empress Xiaoyichun by Qianlong after her death, which shows that in Qianlong's mind, Concubine Ling was actually the third queen.
It is said that the reason why Concubine Ling framed the Nala clan was that the Nala clan's family was poor. Concubine Ling framed the Nala clan and instructed the guards to steal and sell the treasures in the palace to help her mother's family. Qianlong therefore severely reprimanded the Nala clan.
Later, Nala cut his hair alone in his house. Manchurian custom holds that a wife's hair is a curse on her husband. Qianlong thought that the Nala clan must have hated him very much, so he cursed himself.
Even, Qianlong thought that the Nala clan was practicing witchcraft, which made him feel very angry, causing the emperor to turn against him.
Because of Qianlong's ruthless behavior, the Nala clan left a special mark on the history of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and even the entire feudal dynasty. However, the royal family's chores are complicated and complicated, just like the parents of ordinary people's families, and it is difficult to judge right and wrong.
As for the cause of Nala's hair breakage, no one can say yet.