Jinfei

Imperial concubine duankang

Wenjingduan, the imperial concubine of emperor Kang (1874-1924), was one of the only three Empresses of Emperor Guangxu. Jinfei has a younger sister, who is also Guangxu imperial concubine, namely Zhenfei. In 1888, at the ceremony of Emperor Guangxu's election, Princess Jin and her sister Zhenfei were selected to become Emperor Guangxu's concubines. They married in January of the next year, and then entered the palace as Jinpin and Zhenpin respectively.

In the 15th year of Guangxu (1889), she and her younger sister Zhenfei were selected into the palace. She was first granted the title of Jinpin. Later, because of Empress Dowager Cixi's longevity in her sixties, she was granted the title of Jinfei. In the 20th year of Guangxu, Zhenfei was implicated in her disobedience to the Empress Dowager and became a noble woman. The next year, she was promoted to imperial concubine again.

After Xuantong emperor Puyi ascended the throne, he was honored as "the imperial concubine of Kaojin who was also the emperor of Yi". After emperor Xuantong abdicated the throne, the small court was given the title of "Duan Kang Huang GUI Tai Fei".

He died in September 1924 as imperial concubine Kang Yongjin.

Life of the characters

Born in August 1874 in Baimiao Hutong, Tongzhi, she ranked tenth in the list of her cousins with her grandfather. But there are different records about the birth of Jinfei. Tang Haiyi, the nephew of Jinfei, wrote "memory of my two aunts -- Zhenfei Jinfei" and "miscellaneous articles of xinzhengneiwufu" on August 15. The four genealogies of the Qing Royal family and "xingyuanjiqing" on August 20. The new morning post in October of the 12th year of the Republic of China, the diary file of Eun Shang and the diary of natong in the 15th year of Xuantong were recorded on August 22.

Jinfei and Zhenfei are sisters. Jinfei ranks fourth in the family, while Zhenfei ranks fifth. Jinfei's family belongs to the first Shenling and the 13th zuoling of Manchuria inlaid red flag. She is of poor birth. Her 11th ancestor, er Gudai, was the first to enter the flag. Her five generations were all white body. Her grandfather, Wu Dase, was appointed to liupin Xiaoqi school, and her wife, Yi ergengjue Luo, was the leader of liupin official department His grandfather, Yutai, was the third son of saranga. He was born as an official and student. He passed the imperial examinations and became an official until the end of Jiaqing. During the reign of Daoguang, he served as an inspector and political envoy until the governor and governor. He was a famous local official in Daoguang Dynasty. His posthumous title was Zhuang Yi and his wife was Li. The great uncle's grandfather Cheng Tai was appointed as the director of the tailing mausoleum.

Yutai's success led to the rapid rise of family status, from the middle and lower level bureaucrats to aristocratic families. Yutaisheng has four sons and four daughters, the eldest son Changqi, who is married to the daughter of Su Chonga, the first-class successor of Marquis wumite; the second son Changshan, who is married to the daughter of guaerjiaguiliang, a scholar of the University; the third son Changjing, who is married to the daughter of Shuyuan, the servant of hesheri; the fourth son Changxu, who is the father of the second imperial concubine, is the daughter of Baoxing, the former bachelor, the daughter of Xuxian, the daughter of Mianyu, the prince of huiduan, and the second stepwife, who is not a member of the auxiliary kingdom She is the wife of a Bachelor of science.

It is worth mentioning that Chang Xu's four direct wives all came from famous families, but none of them left any adult offspring. Their only sons, Zhikai and Jinzhen, were born by the side room Zhao family. In addition, they have at least three daughters. It is known that one of their direct sisters married borzijit, son of Baoheng, Shanxi's political envoy, on November 13, 1880 Chang Xu, the father of Jinfei, was dismissed because of "marriage violation", because it happened to be emperor shengzuren's death day, so he should not have a wedding.

According to the records in the archives of the Eight Banners government, the 13-year-old Jinfei took part in the first draft on February 19, 1886. On February 17, 1887, she took part in the third draft on September 24, 1888 On October 5th, he participated in the fourth draft. In 1888, the eight banners were selected from the 12th year of Guangxu to the 14th year of Guangxu.

At the beginning of entering the palace

In October of the 14th year of Guangxu (1888), at the election ceremony of Emperor Guangxu, Jinfei and her sister Zhenfei were designated as concubines at the same time. On the 26th day of the 1st month of the 15th year of Guangxu (1889), they joined the palace as Jinpin and Zhenpin. After entering the palace, Jinpin lived in Yonghe palace of the Sixth East Palace, and Zhenpin, her sister, also lived in Jingren palace of the Sixth East Palace. Jinpin was not as beautiful and clever as Zhenpin. She did not get the favor of Emperor Guangxu like her sister Zhenpin in the palace, and was ignored like the queen yehenala.

On the first day of the first month of the 20th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu (1894), Empress Dowager Cixi, because this year was her 60th birthday, the imperial concubines in the inner court were very cautious in serving themselves, so she specially issued an imperial edict to the cabinet to appoint Jinpin and Zhenpin as Jinfei and Zhenfei.

Not long after that, on October 29, Empress Dowager Cixi used her two concubines as the harem to intervene in the government, and privately expressed some requests to the emperor as a reason to demote Princess Jin and Princess Zhenfei to the rank of nobles in order to clean up the internal affairs.

On the first day of November of the same year, Empress Dowager Cixi issued two other edicts, which were specially written on two rectangular palace rules and hung in the inner court to warn the people in the palace. As a rule in the first palace, Jingui and Zhengui were allowed to serve as attendants in the upper hall to reform themselves. Usually, the decoration clothes are worn according to the rules of the palace, and all the objects used are not allowed to violate the rules. In addition to new year's day, two people are allowed to present food to the emperor as usual. In other times, they are not allowed to present new and strange things and clothes. In the second palace, the empress has the responsibility to govern the six palaces. If the concubines don't obey the family law, if they interfere in the state affairs before the emperor, they should be severely investigated and punished, and never be lenient.

It can be seen that the two concubines of Jinzhen interfered in the state affairs and begged for help. The daily decorative clothes are sometimes not used according to the rules of the palace, and often present some novel objects or clothes. Empress xiaodingjing seems to have poor management of Jinzhen's two concubines. She doesn't take out the style that the empress should have, or Jinzhen's two concubines don't care.

Later life

It is worth mentioning that on October 15, 1895, Empress Dowager Cixi introduced five named girls, namely, Shanqing's daughter, Songkun's daughter, Changshu's daughter, Changli's daughter and handsome's daughter, but eventually they all dropped their brands. On that day, Empress Dowager Cixi issued a decree to return the imperial concubines of Jin's noble and precious people. After the reform movement of 1898, Jinfei's sister, Zhenfei, was expelled from Jingren palace because she had offended the Empress Dowager Cixi and lived in the third North House of Jingqi Pavilion.

In the 26th year of Guangxu (1900), on July 20th, the Allied forces of the eight countries invaded the capital. The next day, Empress Dowager Cixi fled to the Forbidden City with her family members. Jinfei was one of them. Before leaving, Jinfei's sister Zhenfei "died" in the palace.

In addition to the necessary expenses, most of the expenses were spent on Empress Dowager Cixi and empress xiaodingjing, such as buying "two pieces of half wide sleeve cotton shirt with snow grey crepe for the ancestors". Therefore, empress xiaodingjing often set aside twelve taels of silver from her own bank to reward Jinfei, while Empress Dowager Cixi would subsidize Jinfei with various kinds of silver, ranging from eighty taels to one thousand taels.

On October 22, 1908 (November 15, 1908), Empress Dowager Cixi passed away in Fuchang hall, the back hall of Yiluan hall in Zhongnanhai, Beijing. While her status was promoted, her expenses also increased significantly. Western style products such as "one box of laundry soap", "two boxes of foreign fish oil candle" and "one cent of foreign iron table and chair" appeared in the bill. When Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi were buried in dingdong mausoleum, Jinfei spent 385 Liang and 552 Liang respectively to burn. In addition, nanmu niches, Wugong and plain paper flowers were prepared for the memorial.

After Puyi ascended the throne, he honored imperial concubine Jin as imperial concubine Kao Jin and continued to live in Yonghe palace. After emperor Xuantong abdicated the throne, in March 1913, he was given the title of imperial concubine duankang. Her relationship with Puyi is average.

In 1921, Puyi's mother, Princess guaerjia, swallowed opium and killed herself because she was reprimanded by Jinfei. As the leader of muzong's widow in Qing Dynasty, Xianzhe's imperial concubine began to fight against Dezong's widow headed by xiaodingjing. Because emperor Xuantong was also the son of Mu Zong and de Zong, Mu Zong's widow and de Zong's widow wanted to have more maternal rights.

Princess duankang is the youngest and open-minded one of the four. She actively joined forces outside the palace to seek restoration. At the same time, Tang Yiying, the second daughter of his brother Zhikai, was married to PuJie, the son of Prince Chun's family, to consolidate the relationship between the two sides. In 1922, when the imperial court of Xuqing Dynasty proposed to marry Puyi, the imperial concubine of duankang supported Guo Buluo Wanrong, the daughter of Wei Rongyuan, the candidate of daoqingche capital educated in the west, to be the queen.

She lived a tasteful life in Yonghe palace and often entertained herself with Danqing calligraphy. Among the furnishings of Yonghe palace, there are several kinds of potted landscapes with delicate clocks, flowers and birds. At the same time, she is also a gourmet. She often sends people to Tianfu near the capital to buy sauce elbows for her breakfast. Because she loves food. Therefore, the cooks of Yonghe Palace's small dining room have excellent cooking skills, and all the princes and ministers of Xunqing love to eat the food she appreciates.

On August 22, 1923, the Empress Dowager of duankang was in her fifties. Puyi invited Zhao kuishun and Xu Gouzi to enter the palace the day before to perform octagonal drum and juggling. Natong, the consultant Minister of bide academy, was introduced into the four weaves of Yuanqing

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