After entering the Qing Dynasty, Shunzhi, 7, lived in the Forbidden City, separated from Xiaozhuang, and the mother and son met for several months. At that time, there were many eunuchs left by the Ming Dynasty in the Qing Palace. They took care of the emperor's daily life, accompanied by day and night, and gave the young emperor a preliminary China cultural enlightenment education.
When Shunzhi grew up, he recalled that Cao Huachun, the eunuch of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, had coached him in reading. This housekeeper is from Wuqing County, Hebei Province. Shunzhi often imitates his accent, so he also says "disgusting words".
When Shunzhi was in power, his Chinese level was not high. "After reading the official seal, I was at a loss." So I studied hard, focusing on the classics of Chinese studies such as the Four Books and the Five Classics, covering a wide range, and hemoptysis from overwork. With the deepening of his understanding, he became more and more fond of China culture. He was "obsessed with Hu customs and China culture."
People at that time recorded, "I tasted wings and robes." Ask the eunuch in the mirror, all call it good, and the world is also called good. Change another hat. Being close to the mirror is throwing hands all over the floor. I have long sleeves and soap boots, which are made of Korean. "
After Shunzhi's marriage, Xiao Zhuang and other Manchu nobles had increasingly different understandings of Manchu culture and customs. In the harem, there is a struggle for the interests of Xiao Zhuang's mother and son around the choice of empresses and heirs.
Shunzhi is half Mongolian, but she tries her best to alienate and exclude the Mongolian empresses selected by Xiaozhuang. He deposed the first queen and tried to depose the second queen and replace it with Princess Dong 'a, but Xiaozhuang stopped him. He had 14 children, but six Mongolian queens were left out in the cold, and none of them were born.
In October of the 14th year of Shunzhi, Dong Eshi gave birth to her fourth son. Shunzhi called him "my first son" and issued a letter to the world. He tried to break the pattern that two generations of Mongolian empresses headed by Xiao Zhuang unified the harem for more than ten years, which was bound to aggravate the contradiction between mother and child.
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Shunzhi ignored the opposition of Xiao Zhuang and courtiers? Abolish the queen and become a quiet princess
In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, whenever the emperor died, the new emperor could not live with the concubines of the previous dynasty in the Sixth East and West Courtyards. The concubines that the previous dynasty could not take away were upgraded to the Empress Dowager and the Taifei, and they gloriously "abdicated" and lived a life of near seclusion here.
Xiaozhuang spent more than 30 years here until he died in Cining Palace in the 27th year of Kangxi (AD 1688). Although everyone here lives in Galeries Lafayette, something happened here in Xiaozhuang.
Xiao Zhuang's son, the emperor shunzhi, was dissatisfied with the Queen and left her alone all day. The queen is Xiaozhuang's niece. She loves her, perhaps with a little regret, so Xiaozhuang asked her to live with her in Cining Palace.
During this period, Cining Palace became the residence of two generations of queens.
Finally, in the tenth year of Shunzhi (A.D. 1653), after three years of cold war with sourdrang queen, Shunzhi, despite the opposition of the Empress Dowager and the advice of ministers who risked their lives, deposed the Queen and demoted her to a quiet princess. There were two charges: one was extravagance and the other was jealousy.
People's Daily Online-Shunzhi dismissed the queen as a quiet princess despite the opposition of Xiao Zhuang and courtiers.
People's Daily Online-Characteristics of the harem in Shunzhi Dynasty: Conflict with sourdrang dowager, early marriage and childbearing, and more premature deaths.