First, the family background is prominent.
Narbu, the father of Urnala family, was not an important official in the imperial court, but an assistant leader around Ganlong. His position in the court is not high, but the Urnala family is very famous. Ulan Nala Abahai, a descendant of the same clan, was awarded the title of "the second beauty of Manchuria" and later married Qing Taizu Aixinjue Luo Nurhachi. She was born beautiful and graceful, especially good at singing and dancing. Her speech and laughter revealed dignity and elegance everywhere, which convinced her, and finally she became the queen of filial piety.
And the other of the same clan, Urnala, is a well-known queen among the palace queens who became popular because of a saying "male and female servants can't do it". When she was in charge of the Sixth Palace, she had a very good relationship with all the concubines and was filial and respectful. Whenever she served Prince Yong in the official residence, it was the same after she was made queen.
Yongzheng respected her very much and often praised her modesty and obedience. After the collapse, he was heartbroken and kissed Xian Di. It is precisely because the filial piety empress wants to have another empress in her clan to strengthen the strength of the Ulan Nala family, so she tries her best to ask her niece Ulan Nala to Prince Bao. But at this time, Li Hong was surrounded by the Fu Cha family of Di Fujin, so the Urnala family could only be appointed as the side Fujin.
With the model of two generations of Empresses of the Urana family, Urana has fulfilled her duties and kept her duties since she entered the palace. I believe that Ulana, who has just become a side Fujin, has a strong desire to be a queen after being taught by the filial piety.
But it was also the beginning of her tragedy.
Second, the road to promotion
In the second year of Qianlong, the Urnala family of Side Fujin was canonized as a virtuous princess. At the same time, the original Di Fujin family was named queen, the Gao family of the side Fujin was named noble princess, and the Gege Sujia was named pure princess. And among these four women, Ula is the least favored one.
Fu Chajia of Di Fujin is the wife of Emperor Qianlong, and they are congenial, two of a kind; Gao's family in Fujin won the favor of Qianlong because of its natural beauty, good singing and dancing, and good drama. Gege Su joined the Fu Cha family in the official residence, backed by Fu Cha, who was quite talented and deeply loved by Qianlong.
Unala's family only gave it to Fujin, the side of Qianlong, in consideration of filial piety to the virtuous princess and empress. It can be said that compared with love, the Urnala family can't compare with the couple in estrus with the Fu Cha family. If it comes to appearance, Ulana can't compete with high natural beauty and graceful posture; If compared with Cai, the Unara clan is even worse than the Su clan with Suzhou and Hangzhou background and aura of heaven and earth.
However, from the fact that Qianlong gave him the word "immortal" with elegance and stability, we can also see that Qianlong respected him. At the same time, the word "fairy" can also mean skilled and exquisite skills, from which we can see that Urnala's safety and professionalism have been affirmed by Qianlong. But this respect, this affirmation may be more from the respect for the first emperor Yongzheng and the filial piety for the constitutional queen. In a word, the Ulanala family has been in an awkward position since they entered the palace. I have to be careful everywhere.
On New Year's Day, ten years after Qianlong's reign, Gao Guifei, who enjoyed the sacred favor, suddenly became ill. On the 23rd day of the first month, Gan Long made her the imperial concubine to show her liberation, and in order to pray for the imperial concubine to achieve universal celebration, Gan Long also made the virtuous imperial concubine a virtuous imperial concubine, and Chunguifei a pure imperial concubine.
It took Ullner Lalash 12 years to get the title of imperial concubine, and this title can only be obtained by the light of Gao Guifei, and he has to enjoy this title with his rival Chun Guifei. You can imagine how ironic the title of the imperial concubine is for the noble-born Xian Guifei.
In the following three years, the queen, pure imperial concubine Su, Jia and Ye La were born one after another, and Jia was promoted to Jia Guifei by her mother, on an equal footing with xian Guifei and pure imperial concubine. At this time, Urnala's position is even more embarrassing, because the harem is listed as a concubine and above, and only she is the least favored and has never given birth.
You know, if there are no children in the harem, how difficult it will be for a woman to stand on her feet. However, the absence of children also provided sufficient conditions for Xian Guifei to ascend to the position of queen.
On March 31st, 13th year of Qianlong reign, Ulanala finally got the chance to ascend the throne of the Queen. After the death of Queen Fu Cha, Qianlong made her the Queen of Filial Piety and Spring. The queen's position is vacant and needs to be filled. Empress Niu Kelu reminded Gan Long, "The queen must come from Manchuria and go to Sanqi-this is a political need and must have considerable qualifications and status."
At that time, only Xian Guifei in the palace met these two conditions, and Xian Guifei was not pregnant and had no children. After taking over the harem affairs from the late Queen Fu Cha, everything has to be taken care of, and Xian Guifei happens to be the most leisurely concubine in the harem, just having enough time to manage the harem affairs, and her professional ability is quite recognized, otherwise how could she get the title of "Xian"?
However, Gan Long and Focha's wife are deeply in love, and no one can replace them in his mind. Therefore, Gan Long carried out the plan of delaying troops, and only awarded Urnala the title of imperial concubine to lead the affairs of the Sixth Palace. Emotionally, Ulana has completely lost. She lost to a woman who no longer exists. This is the saddest thing, because she has no power to fight back against enemies that don't exist. She is destined to be the victim of this harem love game.
The vacancy of Queen's post lasted for two years, which is enough to show that Qianlong has deep feelings for Queen Fu Cha. Fifteen years after Qianlong, after intense reflection, Qianlong realized that it was not that Ulana was inferior to Fu Cha, but that he had alienated Fu Cha because of his deep feelings with her.
Since there is nothing wrong with Urana, we should not neglect ourselves too much. So he listened to the queen mother's suggestion and made Urnala, the imperial concubine of the virtuous emperor, as the queen, and devoted himself to cultivating her feelings, hoping that she could give birth to her first son to make up for the regret that the first son of the Qing Dynasty still did not succeed.
However, the status of the queen is destined to be only a vassal of the emperor and a victim of the power struggle of the imperial court. The tragedy of Urnala has long been doomed.
Third, answer blows with blows, the mystery of hair cutting
After fifteen years of Qianlong, Ulana ascended the throne, and after sixteen years of Qianlong, she became pregnant. On April 25th, 17th year of Qianlong, Empress Urana gave birth to twelve sons of Emperor Yong, and then five daughters and thirteen sons of Emperor Yongjing.
Having three sons in a row is enough to show that the emperor and Queen Nora have established a harmonious husband and wife life, but this is only a flash in the pan. Because the harem welcomed another strong woman-Princess Wei.
Your princess's first child, Huang Qinv, was born on July 15th, 21st year in Qianlong, only half a year later than the 13th brother. Therefore, when Queen Ulan Nala was pregnant, the emperor's favor had been transferred to your princess. Until her death, your princess basically monopolized all the favor during the Qianlong period. She gave birth to six children in Qianlong, spoiled the imperial harem, and Queen Ulan Nala fell out of favor again.
The author believes that the imperial concubine's favor has a clear purpose. We can see that your princess has a strong fertility, so why didn't her stomach move during the ten years of Qianlong, that is, the time when she was named a noble Wei, until the twenty-first year of Qianlong? As we said in the previous tweet, this is another way to repay the kindness of Queen Fu Cha.
There are many doubts in history, such as the death of Prince Yongyuan and the death of Queen Fu Cha. The emperor's acne seems to be caused by poor human care, which led to the death of Queen Fu Cha. If it is really man-made, then the biggest beneficiary who can get the greatest benefit from all this is Queen Ulan Nala, who is nothing more than a behind-the-scenes manipulator.
In the 13th year of Qianlong, Fu Cha died, and was promoted to the imperial concubine. If your concubine chose not to get pregnant just to repay her kindness, then why didn't she make any movement until twenty-one years after Fu Cha's death?
Maybe the reason is simple. Presumably, she has been secretly investigating the truth of Queen Fu Cha's death for some time. She can't get pregnant because she will lose the ability to inquire the truth when she is pregnant. It was not until she found out that everything was directed at Queen Ulan Nala that she really took action and skillfully took the pet from the Queen to achieve the purpose of revenge.
For thirty years, I have been on a southern tour. Queen Ulan Nala, who was completely out of favor at that time, ushered in the final blow of fate.
It was in this southern tour that the history of the Qing Dynasty recorded "Empress Urnala ... thirty years, from her southern tour to Hangzhou, she paid attention to the imperial edict and then cut her hair, from which she benefited and then returned it to the capital." Queen Ulan Nala cut her hair in front of the emperor and empress dowager when she visited Hangzhou in the south.
In Manchu customs, cutting hair is the most taboo, especially for the empress, who can only cut hair if the emperor or empress dowager dies. Therefore, Urnala's almost crazy behavior is undoubtedly not cursing Ganlong and Empress Dowager. As a result, both Qianlong and the Empress Dowager were furious and ordered the Empress Dowager to return to Beijing first on the grounds of "recovering from illness and treating diseases".
After that, he was imprisoned in the palace, and was buried in the Princess Yuling Garden in the name of the queen the following year, and was buried with Chunhui Emperor Guifei. After the death of a country's mother, she was neither buried in the emperor's mausoleum, nor had her own underground palace, shrine or sacrifice.
Why Queen Urnala's hair was cut off has always been a mystery in history of qing dynasty. According to unofficial history's records, it is the duty of Queen Unara to persuade Gan Long not to lust after the beauty of geisha in the south of the Yangtze River, but Gan Long rebuked her for being "narrow-minded" and only cut her hair in a fit of pique.
There is also a wonderful interpretation in the film and television drama Princess Zhu Huan. But as we can see from the above description, Ulana must be full of resentment, and the southern tour is just a fuse. When he first entered the palace, he was suppressed because he was no better than Gao and Su.
Later, due to her high face, she was reluctantly promoted to the imperial concubine. Isn't this an insult to Gao? Then, she barely became a queen under the surname of Ulan Nala, but she lost to a nonexistent Fu Cha family. He was favored for three years and fell out of favor because of the intrusion of Princess Wei's family. Isn't it greater pain?
At the same time, the author also has a bolder guess: it was the imperial concubine who caused all kinds of troubles, which led to the hair loss of Queen Ulan Nala. Otherwise, with the patience that Queen Ulan Nala can stand on the bench for more than ten years, how can she easily lose her hair? You know, Queen Fu Cha died of illness in the cabin of the East Tour in the 13th year of Qianlong's reign, so it is very likely that the imperial concubine was killed in order to avenge Queen Fu Cha, and wanted Queen Ulan Nala to be destroyed in the cabin like that, so that her enemies would have the same fate in the same place. This may be the revenge of the imperial concubine.
When Queen Ulan Nala cut her hair, the imperial concubine was accompanying Gan Long and the Empress Dowager Chongqing. After Queen Ulan Nala cut off her hair, the imperial concubine was successfully promoted to the imperial concubine and managed the harem. She is the biggest beneficiary of this farce of cutting off her hair. Starting from all kinds of doubts, people have to speculate on the relationship between Queen Ulan Nala's haircut and the imperial concubine.
When she first entered the palace, Urnala's family was just a pawn who respected the virtuous princess and Yong Zhengdi, but after entering the palace, she was only cautious because of her poor skills. After Fu Cha's death, she became a pawn in the hands of the Queen Mother Niugulu and devoted herself to supporting her for her own use. Although she is a queen, she will never catch up with the Fucha family and your concubine Wei's family, but she can't help it herself.
Throughout her life, she was always attached to others because she dragged her surname and had no freedom of her own. I wonder if she regretted being born in Ulanna's house when she cut her hair?