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In the finale of "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace", Ruyi died peacefully, and Emperor Qianlong fell into infinite remorse The emperor is infinitely remorseful. But if you know Ruyi's "real historical end", I'm afraid the audience will be even more heartbroken! In the history of Qianlong, when he heard the news of Ulanara Ruyi's death, he not only did not have a trace of sadness, he continued to hunt and play; he even deliberately held the funeral of Ulanara Ruyi in a very simple way, even placing the corpse and coffin on the concubine. In the mausoleum of , what a humiliation to the queen of the Qing Dynasty! Why did Qianlong hate her so much that he even deprived her of a "good death" after her death?
"Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace", the protagonist of "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace", Ulanala's Ruyi was reduced to an "unnamed corpse" and was randomly stuffed into the tomb of a concubine. The tomb collapsed, and the staff entered the tomb for the first time in order to rescue it, but at the moment when the tomb was opened, everyone was stunned by the sight in front of them... There were actually two coffins in the tomb!
In the Qing Dynasty, it was unethical for concubines and concubines to share the tomb, so who is the other corpse who dared to rest on the site of imperial concubine ?
Scholars scoured all kinds of history books, but could not find any record of this "abnormality" in the tomb of Emperor Chunhui, until they found a tomb keeper's note "Easy to Know the Mausoleum", which recorded the layout of the tomb, Burial tomb owner and other information. And historians found an amazing answer from this notebook... It turns out that another skeleton turned out to be Qianlong's successor! That is, Queen Ulanara, the protagonist of Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace.
But the identity of the corpse was found out, and the questions that followed made historians even more confused: Why is there so little record of Ulanara Ruyi in history books? The part of pulling queen is less than 400 words? In addition, Ulanara Ruyi is the queen of the Qing Dynasty, why did she end up being stuffed into the tomb of the concubine, and ended up without a tablet after her death?
The historical truth of "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace": the successor queen has almost no sense of existence in the eyes of Emperor Qianlong The vicious scheming depicted by La Shi, it was not until Zhou Xun in "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace" that Wulanala's love for the emperor and his despair of court life were poignantly and movingly interpreted. But the real Ulanala clan in history can be said to have a very low sense of existence in Qianlong's eyes.
As we all know, Qianlong's life 's most beloved is Fucha Queen , and his favorite is Lingfei. It is clear that the Wulanala family married him since Qianlong was still King of Baoqing, but the degree of favor was not comparable to that of the pure concubine who was still a concubine at that time. pet.
Logically speaking, it should be impossible for Ulanala to claim the throne of the queen, but a major event happened at this time-Queen Fucha died of illness.
At this time, the queen mother began to look for the next queen. After many comparisons, she believed that the Ulanala family could be the queen. Soon, Ulanara was canonized as the queen. However, the Ulanala family who climbed to the lower position did not have a good life for a few years, and Qianlong hated her so much that he was unwilling to give her a good death even after her death...
How cruel Qianlong was to Ruyi ? Even a low-level official can't compare to the burial system. Qianlong's abhorrence for his successor has been known to everyone since the day she passed away.
Emperor Qianlong was at Mulan hunted in the paddock, and after hearing the news of the queen's death, not only did not show any sadness, but continued to play. He even issued an imperial decree that made the princes and ministers confused— lowered the rank to bury the queen at the level of the imperial concubine.
said that she was an imperial concubine, but it was actually more sloppy. Not only did she not enjoy the etiquette of an imperial concubine, but even a low-level official could not compare. Generally speaking, there are 7,920 people carrying coffins for emperors and queens, but she has only 64 people; there is no tablet for her in the Taimiao and mausoleums; usually the queens' coffins are made of high-grade Jinsinan wood, but she The coffin was made of inferior fir wood; Ruyi did not get a posthumous title after his death, but only got the word "successor"; in addition, most queens should have a portrait of a seated figure in a formal dress, but Ruyi did not. Many scholars speculate that the reason is She annoyed Qianlong, so the portraits were all destroyed. Emperor Qianlong seemed to downgrade the empress's national mourning to a family mourning, and even did not even have a dedicated tomb, so it evolved into the situation described at the beginning, that the coffin of Queen Nara and the coffin of Emperor Chunhui were juxtaposed in the tomb.
What's even more terrifying is that many ministers wrote to persuade them. Unexpectedly, Qianlong was furious when he saw these memorials for Queen Nara, and many officials who made the papers were exiled and died in foreign countries. What happened to make Queen Nara fall out of favor completely, and even Qianlong's grievances persisted decades after her death? The answer to the mystery is in just one day of the southern tour...
Ulanara Ruyi's "self-cutting hair" completely angered Qianlong
Emperor Qianlong's fourth southern tour, a group went to Hangzhou, Qianlong and Ruyi Yi also had breakfast together that day, and there was no abnormality. Unexpectedly, when they had dinner, Ruyi did not appear again. Since then, Ruyi has never appeared by the emperor's side... After the tour to the south, Emperor Qianlong immediately ordered to take back the empress's golden seal of Nara's and reduce the number of maids serving her to only There are only 2 left (the one with the lowest rank, only 2 palace maids), put her in the cold palace, and once wanted to abolish the queen, just gave up because there were too many ministers who opposed it. Why did the queen fall out of favor and receive a world of difference between the two meals?
Historians found clues in Emperor Qianlong's edict, one of which reads: "even cut her own hair", that is, Queen Nara did the biggest taboo at that time - cutting hair by herself. The Manchu people were burial in the early days, but it was abolished during the Kangxi period. Therefore, another culture to replace burial was developed: when a Manchu woman died of her husband, emperor, or empress dowager, she would cut off her ears, rub her hair, and take the lead with her hair; Cursing the Emperor and Empress Dowager.
But the strange thing is, Ruyi is full of people, it is impossible not to know the seriousness of the haircut, why does she still do it? What on earth happened? Qianlong always kept his mouth shut. Historians of later generations speculate that there are two main reasons:
1. Qianlong was lustful, the queen's persuasion was invalid, and the haircut protested. Going out in casual clothes and wanting to bring Jiangnan beauty back to the palace. Queen Nara's persuasion was ineffective, so she had no choice but to use this trick to wake the emperor, but she did not expect to anger Shengyan.
2. Qianlong wanted to promote the imperial concubine to the imperial concubine
Although the imperial concubine came from a low background, most historians believe that she was very scheming, and Qianlong and the empress dowager were subdued by her. Therefore, during the southern tour, the mother and son discussed to promote the then imperial concubine Ling Guifei to the imperial concubine, but this incident greatly angered the emperor Nala.back. Because the rank of the imperial concubine is generally regarded as a fake, if the imperial concubine is made the imperial concubine, then the concubine's son is likely to be established as the prince. And half a year after the haircut incident, Qianlong named Wei Jia's as the imperial concubine, and was in charge of the harem, and her son Yongyan also established himself as the crown prince, and later became Emperor Jiaqing.
The truth of the history is far less poignant and romantic than "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace". Although Queen Nara has many wild stories circulating, it is also very movingly interpreted by Zhou Xun's acting skills. But in the official history, her sense of existence is extremely low, and the rediscovery of Queen Nara's corpse has also allowed future generations to re-acquaint with a Queen of the Qing Dynasty who has been wronged and tortured.
