Do you know? The arrogant and domineering concubine Nian Shilan in the hit drama "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is actually not a fictional character in real history. Moreover, she was also buried in the imperial mausoleum with Emperor Yongzheng, which is really unexpected.
It is really thought-provoking that such a narrow-minded woman can have this honor.
Historically, Nian was the sister of Nian Qianyao, a famous general in the Yongzheng period, and was born in the Qing Dynasty's white flag coat family. Her family has been an official family for generations, and Nian's great-grandfather, Nian Yousheng, was a hereditary Jinzhou Wei guerrilla, who was defeated and captured in the Battle of Songjin and became a white-clothed servant in the Eight Banners.
Nian's grandfather, Nian Zhonglong, was admitted to the Jinshi during the Shunzhi period, so the relationship made the Nian family break away from the identity of the white flag and become the nobles of the Han military flag with the white flag.
Nian's father, Nian Yaoling, entered the officialdom with his father's shadow, and became the governor of Huguang and the left servant of the Ministry of Industry. Although Nian's marriage to Yongzheng was a political marriage, she became the most beloved woman in Yongzheng's life, was named a concubine, and was promoted to an imperial concubine before her death.
After his death, Nian was posthumously named the imperial concubine of Dunsu.
The Nian family enjoyed a great reputation in the history of the Qing Dynasty, and the most prominent figure among them was Nian Qianyao. He was admitted to the Jinshi at the age of 21, and at the age of 30, he won the favor of Kangxi and became the youngest governor in the history of the Qing Dynasty.
At the same time, Nian Qianyao is also Yongzheng's father-in-law. The status of the Nian family in the Han military banner and the outstanding talent of Nian Qianyao made the Nian family have a high status in the palace of Prince Yong, even surpassing Qianlong's biological mother Niu Colu.
As soon as Nian entered Prince Yong's mansion, he replaced the Li family of Fang Fujin, who was favored by Yongzheng before, and became the most high-profile woman in the palace. Yongzheng has more respect for his wife Wulanala, although their relationship is harmonious, but more respectful of each other.
Although Yongzheng once loved Li very much, but since Nian's entry into the house, Li's status has plummeted, and Yongzheng seems to have found true love from Nian.
In the past 12 years, Nian's alone has taken over all of Yongzheng's children, and she has given birth to three sons and one daughter for Yongzheng, which shows how much Yongzheng loves her.
Since Nian's entry into the house, his wife Wulanala has been left aside, and the once favored side Fujin Li has also been left out in the cold. At that time, Niu Colu, who had already given birth to Qianlong, was even more incomparable with Nian's.
It can be said that Yongzheng marrying Nian's is equivalent to finding the love of his life, and they sleep together night and night, sharing glory and wealth.
Nian, in history, she is delicate and lovely, gentle and considerate, and respectful and respectful in everything. Her personality is very different from Nian Shilan in the TV series. Her virtuous and gentle has even been praised many times by Emperor Yongzheng.
According to historical records, she was weak since she was a child, but she did her best to participate in the affairs of the royal family and did her best. Her image is like Lin Daiyu in "Dream of Red Mansions", but she is more diligent and thrifty than Lin Daiyu.
Such a woman not only makes men want to stop, but also stimulates Yongzheng's desire to protect. She made Yongzheng feel the pleasure of holding the country with one hand and caressing the coquettish with the other, so she was favored by Yongzheng.
After Yongzheng ascended the throne, Nian's status was respected, and Yongzheng canonized her as a concubine. However, according to the rules of the Qing court, a person at the level of a concubine must be from the upper three banners, and the Nian family must be born with the white flag of the lower five banners.
In order to promote her to a noble concubine, Yongzheng deliberately raised the entire Nian family to the Yellow Flag. As a result, Nian became the second-in-command in the Yongzheng harem after the queen, and the first Han woman in Manchu history to be canonized as a concubine.
When Concubine Nian died and Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, she was born prematurely because of overwork, and since then, her body has deteriorated, and she is so weak that she can't have anything to do with Yongzheng. However, Yongzheng still turns over her brand every night, because he thinks that she is not only his sexual partner, but also his wife, and he hopes to have a family relationship with her every night to satisfy his heart's desire for love.
Although Nian and Yongzheng were in a political marriage, she became the love of his life.
Nian's is Nian Qianyao's life-saving straw. She was buried in the imperial mausoleum as an imperial concubine, setting a precedent for burial in the Qing Dynasty. In "The Legend of Zhen Huan", Yongzheng didn't really like Nian Shilan, but just pretended to love Nian Shilan in order to win over her brother and Nian Qianyao, who held the military power.
In other words, Yongzheng's love for Nian Shilan is pretended because of Nian Qianyao. And in history, Nian's is Nian Qianyao's life talisman. Because of Yongzheng's love for Nian, he has never done anything to Nian Qianyao.
As early as the second half of the second year of Yongzheng (1724), when Nian Qianyao entered Beijing to meet Yongzheng, Yongzheng was already dissatisfied with him, and Yongzheng had already killed Nian Qianyao at that time, but he did not do it for a long time, because Nian's body was weak and sick at that time, and he was afraid of stimulating Nian's body.
After Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, Nian Qianyao succeeded Yongzheng's younger brother Yinyu, the political opponent of his mother, and became the general of Fuyuan and the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, responsible for quelling the rebellion of Luobzang Danjin in Qinghai.
Nian Qianyao has very high military achievements and outstanding military achievements, so Yongzheng initially valued and trusted Nian Qianyao because of Nian's relationship.
Nian Qianyao became more and more conceited because of his great military achievements and Yongzheng's trust, and even began to sell his official title on the northwest front, and even Yongzheng's brother-in-law, the Mongolian county king Celeng, had to bow down to him.
Although at the end of the second year of Yongzheng, Yongzheng only wrote a letter to warn him, he was still the same. This eventually led to Yongzheng being unbearable. At the beginning of the third year of Yongzheng, Concubine Nian gave birth to the ninth son of the emperor, Fupei, who was born prematurely, and her physical condition deteriorated sharply.
At this time, Yongzheng couldn't bear Nian Qianyao anymore. That year, Yongzheng publicly denounced Nian for the first time, and in April removed him from his post as governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi and general Fuyuan, and transferred him to the south as general of Hangzhou.
Due to the relationship between Concubine Nian, Yongzheng only demoted Nian Qianyao repeatedly, but he also opened the road of demotion to the official.
Yongzheng loved Concubine Nian deeply, worried that Nian Qianyao's matter would affect her health, and even ordered the palace personnel not to discuss it. He was afraid that the young concubine would be stimulated when she learned about it, and even died of incense.
Therefore, Yongzheng endured the pain and was tolerant of Nian Qianyao, and Nian Concubine became his "talisman". Although the young concubine was terminally ill, Yongzheng still promoted her to the imperial concubine despite the fact that the queen Wulanala was alive, and made her happy with Chongxi.
After Nian's death, Yongzheng gave Nian Qianyao to death for ninety-two major sins, and beheaded his second son Nian Fu, who violated the law. But he did not pursue Nian Qianyao's other heirs and Nian Yaoling and Nian Xiyao, but reused Nian Concubine's family to treat him well.
When he died at the age of Nian, Yongzheng even paid tribute to him in person, treating him as a wife. All this shows Yongzheng's deep love and protection for Concubine Nian.
Yongzheng has a deep affection for Nian, and her death made Yongzheng grief-stricken. In order to express his sorrow for her, Yongzheng boycotted the dynasty for five days, which is rare in Yongzheng, who is famous for his diligence.
Nian's funeral was also very grand, and the specifications were almost equal to the queen's, but Yongzheng did not waste extravagance because of this, but spent tens of thousands of taels to organize. It is recorded in the "Records of Qing Shizong" that Yongzheng was very saddened by the death of Nian, and his third brother, Prince Cheng Yinzhi, was unable to attend the funeral of Concubine Nian, so he was scolded by Yongzheng.
And his eighth brother, Prince Lian, was punished by Yongzheng for kneeling all night because of his poor handling of funeral affairs. Although Yongzheng did not have a good relationship with them, the emperor scolded his brother and punished his younger brother for the funeral of his concubine, which is rare in history.
Yongzheng tried his best to be able to share the same cave with Nian's. According to the rules of the Qing Dynasty, only the queen of the main palace can accompany the emperor to the tomb, and the imperial concubine level cannot accompany the emperor's tomb. However, Nian's brother Nian Qianyao became a sinner because of breaking the law, and Nian was also regarded as a family member of the sinner, let alone buried in the emperor's mausoleum.
However, Yongzheng broke these rules for her. As early as after he succeeded to the throne, he posthumously called his favorite and trusted younger brother Yinxiang's biological mother, Concubine Min, as Emperor Jingmin's concubine, and buried her in the tomb of Emperor Kangxi.
This move paved the way for the future burial of the emperor with him. With the precedent of Emperor Jingmin's concubine, Yongzheng can justifiably let Nian's family accompany the burial of the emperor's mausoleum. He planned to put Nian's Zigong into it after the completion of Taereung.
However, he died without waiting for Taereung to be built. Before dying, he repeatedly instructed his successor Qianlong to bury Concubine Nian and himself in Tailing in the future. After Qianlong completed the Tailing Tomb, in accordance with Yongzheng's last wishes, he buried the golden coffins of Empress Xiaojingxian and Nian's in it, so that Nian's side could accompany Yongzheng after his death.
Although Nian was favored and gave birth to three sons for Yongzheng, the three sons were not ranked according to Hongzi. This is because Nian's body is relatively weak, and after she married Yongzheng in the fiftieth year of Kangxi, she did not give birth for the first time until the fifty-fourth year of Kangxi, and there may be miscarriages or difficult to conceive.
She successively gave birth to the fourth daughter of the emperor, the seventh son of the emperor Fuyi, the eighth son of the emperor Fuhui and the ninth son of the emperor Fupei, all of whom were named after the characters of Fu. This made later generations very puzzling, according to the genealogy of Aixin Jueluo, Qianlong's generation should be named after the Hongzi generation, but the princes born to the Nian family were named after the Fu generation.
What is the reason for this?
Most of the children born to Nian died young, and in order to bring good luck to Nian's children, Emperor Yongzheng decided to name them Fuzi. Nian's first daughter and seventh son died before the age of two and a year, and the ninth son, Fu Pei, died prematurely at seven months of pregnancy.
Despite this, Emperor Yongzheng still included the children who died early in the genealogy of Aixin Jueluo and gave them the name Fupei. The oldest surviving of Nian's children was the eighth son of the emperor, Fuhui, whose original name was Hongsheng, but because of the early death of Nian's children, as well as the death of Nian's concubine and Nian's physical weakness, Fuhui was weak since he was a child.
In order to make him grow up healthy, Emperor Yongzheng renamed him Fuhui, hoping to bring him good luck. In general, in order to give good luck to the children of the Nian clan, Emperor Yongzheng renamed them Fuzi generation, and changed the name of Fuhui for the sake of their health.
Fuhui, an ill-fated child, was loved by his father Yongzheng because of his mother's favor. After Nian's death, Yongzheng personally took Fuhui with him to raise him.
As a rare thrifty and self-disciplined emperor in history, Yongzheng treated Fuhui completely informally and gave him a lot of rewards. The cost of Fuhui is even higher than that of the heir to the throne, brother Qianlong, and Yongzheng will give Fuhui as soon as possible.
Due to Fuhui's weak health, Yongzheng spared no effort to find valuable medicinal materials for him, even at the expense of thousands of dollars. For the sake of his health, he often asked for Korean ginseng from the Korean Peninsula, and for this purpose, he reduced the tribute tax that should be paid by the Qing Dynasty on the Korean Peninsula.
The reward received by Fuhui is second only to Yongzheng's two favorite younger brothers, the thirteenth brother Yinxiang and the seventeenth brother Yinli. However, although Fukee's name is Fukei, he is not blessed at all.
In the sixth year of Yongzheng (1728), Fuhui died because of his frailty. This made Yongzheng very sad, he stopped the dynasty for three days, and ordered Fuhui to be buried with the prince's courtesy.
Although Fuhui's life was short, his existence brought Yongzheng incomparable joy and happiness.
Nian is not a character in film and television dramas, and she is deeply loved by Yongzheng in history. Although she did not name her sons according to the Hongzi generation, this was mainly because her sons died young.
In order to please the omen, Yongzheng gave these sons who died with the word Fu names, but in the end Fuhui still died. Yongzheng's love for Nian has nothing to do with any political interests, and he does not hate or love Nian because of his brother Nian Qianyao, which shows that his love for Nian is true love.
Nian's family was also buried in Yongzheng's imperial mausoleum because of Yongzheng's love. Although the Qing Tailing Tomb of Yongzheng and Nian is still well preserved, if they knew that modern TV dramas were so scandalous about their relationship, they might jump out of the underground palace.