In Emperor Daoguang's harem, except for a few queens, few concubines were able to maintain a high position all the time. Even the two concubines favored by Daoguang in his later years, Concubine Tong and Imperial Concubine Zhuang Shun, inevitably suffered the fate of relegation.
However, their end was not bad, especially the concubine Zhuang Shun, who not only gave birth to four children, but even had two emperors among her descendants.
Wu Yashi was born on October 16 of the second year of Daoguang, at that time, Emperor Daoguang was already a middle-aged man of forty years old, and the age difference between them was a full forty years.
Wu Ya's father, Lingshou, was a small pen sticker, but their family was related to the royal family. Wu Ya's great-great-grandfather Luo Dai and Empress Xiaogongren (Emperor Yongzheng's biological mother) are cousins, and she has a cousin and grandmother who was included in the harem by Emperor Jiaqing, and she is a concubine.
Wu Yashi was selected in the eight-banner draft in Daoguang's seventeenth year and became the only selected show girl. She was sent to the Old Summer Palace on February 17 and began her harem career.
Emperor Daoguang was a moody, mean-spirited emperor. His ruthlessness towards his concubines and children is a world of difference compared to Kangxi or Qianlong. On the sixth day of November in the seventeenth year of Daoguang, Emperor Daoguang issued an order to demote Wu Yashi to Xiu Changzai, and she fell out of favor less than a year after entering the palace.
In the long course of history, royal favors have often been like a short-lived. Emperor Daoguang had demoted the Wu Ya clan, but this was only a commonplace. Some were able to seize the opportunity and make a comeback, while others were deposed and ended up miserable.
But Wu Yashi is not the latter, she is the former. She is a woman favored by God, who was able to regain her grace in the opportunity to sleep, and was reinstated as a nobleman, called Lin noble. After she changed her title, she started the road of childbirth, and in just five years, she gave birth to four children.
Emperor Daoguang, who originally had few heirs, was also very happy because of the Wu Ya clan and the Qing Dynasty's harem reverberated with the cry of a baby. However, Wu Yashi had a miscarriage after conceiving a dragon fetus for Emperor Daoguang, and two years later, Emperor Daoguang died in the Old Summer Palace, and she may have been his last woman or the last concubine to conceive a child for him.
The grace that Wu Yashi received in Daoguang's later years undoubtedly showed her charm and wisdom.
Wu Ya made great contributions to the royal family, and she gave birth to children who made great contributions to the royal family. In recognition of her merits, Emperor Daoguang named her Concubine Lin, and became the second main position of the Daoguang harem after the imperial concubine Borzigit.
After Emperor Xianfeng succeeded to the throne, he honored her as the imperial concubine Kaolin, and lived in Shouxi Palace with her only daughter, the ninth princess. According to the palace archives, she often gave Emperor Xianfeng food, blessed meat, and needlework, etc., far more than Emperor Daoguang's other concubines, which shows that Emperor Xianfeng had a good relationship with her mother and son.
In October of the 11th year of Xianfeng, the empress dowager Ci'an and Cixi of the two palaces honored her as the imperial concubine of Huangzulin in the name of Emperor Tongzhi. However, just five years later, she died at the age of 44.
Subsequently, the queen mother of the two palaces gave her the title of Zhuangshun Imperial Concubine and buried her in Mu Dongling. Although she died, she probably never imagined that eight years later, her grandson Zai Xiang would sit on the dragon chair of the Qing Empire and become the Son of Heaven.
Moreover, her son Yiyun has gradually been valued by Lafayette, especially after the Jiashen Yishu in the tenth year of Guangxu, Yiyun has almost become the eagle dog of the Empress Dowager Cixi, which can be said to be rushing.
There is one more thing, maybe even Yi Xun would not have thought of it, that is, the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu, at this time Yi Xun has been dead for nearly 20 years, this year, Yi Xun's grandson, that is, Pu Yi, the great-grandson of Wu Ya, was designated by the Empress Dowager Cixi as the new heir to the throne, she may never have thought that her descendants actually produced two sons of heaven, but these two sons of heaven have no real power, just act as puppets for others.
Conclusion: Wu Yashi, an important figure in the Daoguang harem, not only because she was deeply favored, had four children, and was promoted to the imperial concubine, but also because her son Yiyun was proud of the spring breeze on the **, and was highly appreciated by Cixi, and her grandson Zai Yan and great-grandson Pu Yi successively became the owners of the Zhengda Guangming Palace, which made her occupy a solid position in the history of the Qing Palace.
Uya, Uya, her life is indeed going well. References: "Qing History Manuscript", "Qing Xuanzong Record", "Qing Dynasty Concubine Biography Manuscript".