Chapter 7 Song of Everlasting Sorrow

As the most prolific poet in Chinese history, Qianlong did "write a thousand words and rely on a horse to wait" when he wrote poems. Sometimes he could write more than a dozen poems a day.For example, when he visited Kunming Lake in the thirty-sixth year of Qianlong (1771), he wrote 8 poems in less than an hour, with an average of 7 minutes per poem.He specially wrote a poem to record the appearance of this small record: "The boat travels ten miles and eight poems, but it has not disappeared for four quarters." ("Imperial Poems Two Collections") However, the quality and quantity of artistic works are often inversely proportional. What flows out of the blood vessels is poetry, and what comes out of the water pipe with a twist can only be tap water.Since he wrote an average of two poems a day, most of the poems written by Emperor Qianlong in his life were nothing more than "diaries of branch offices", where he recorded moods, scenery, and events.There is such a segment in the TV series "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo": Qianlong leads the ministers to visit the garden, and the poetry is very popular, and he chanted: "One piece, two pieces, three or four pieces, five pieces, six pieces, seven or eight pieces, nine pieces, ten pieces, and eleven pieces ..." After chanting here, he suddenly got stuck.Fortunately, Liu Luoguo was by his side, and after the last sentence "flying into the grass and disappearing", the imperial poem was completed.Although the matter is exaggerated, it vividly describes the "creation" process of many "imperial poems" in Qianlong.In fact, for the convenience of keeping a diary, Emperor Qianlong could write poems at any time, and he could write poems about everything. .For example, in the forty-first year of Qianlong (1776), he once wrote such a "poem" that ordinary people cannot understand:

The court report should arrive every other day, and they are all called Ercunyu Xinzi. However, it is called eighteenth, but it is expected that he is unknown for ninety-nine. Readers who are particularly familiar with history may be able to guess the general meaning of the first two sentences: On the Xingxing Road, the cabinet sent the emperor a cabinet report every other day, reporting major and minor affairs of the country.Today's Ge Bao said that on the 18th it rained two inches in Beijing.However, if you don’t read the poem notes for the last two sentences, no matter how knowledgeable you are, you can’t understand them: A few hours later, the emperor received a report from the local officials in Hebei, saying that it rained four inches in Hebei on the 19th.Beijing reported that it happened on the 18th. It seems that they didn't know that the next day's rain was even more gratifying!

Of course, there are always exceptions to everything. In the process of writing more than 40,000 mediocre works, Emperor Qianlong also wrote some sincere and touching works.However, most of these works revolve around one theme, that is "mourning".For example, the following song: There is no word about its coming and going, and the two words are safe to report to me. Only exhort to think of the Virgin, and teach Gu Fu to cherish all children. Wake up to see tears and rain still stain the pillow, and feel the sad wind blowing quietly. It seems that Huixian once fell into a dream in the past, but who is still left to comfort him? ("The Second Collection of Imperial Poems")

One night of sleeping alone, the emperor suddenly dreamed of his dead wife.She came quietly and left abruptly, just telling the emperor that she lived very peacefully in that world, and told the emperor not to worry about her.In addition, it is to inquire about the situation of the mother-in-law and the child, and tell him to take care of him carefully.When he woke up, the emperor had already cried through the pillow towel, and he could only hear the sound of the wind blowing the curtains, which further brought out the loneliness and desolation of the Midnight Palace.The emperor couldn't help but asked sadly: After the death of Princess Huixian, she also dreamed of me, but fortunately, after waking up from the dream, you were beside me to comfort me gently.Now, there is no one like you who can comfort me, I can only bear the pain alone in the long night...

This sad and touching poem is true and simple, and it is not inferior to Su Shi's "Ten Years of Life and Death".The sentiment revealed in it is more like the simple and true love between a foolish husband and a foolish woman, not like the work of an emperor who has three thousand fans.This poem proves that Qianlong was indeed a deeply affectionate person. This poem was written to his first wife, Empress Xiaoxian. Love is sudden. In the fifth year of Yongzheng (1727), Honglixu, the future heir in Yongzheng's heart, was 17 years old.If you live today, you are only a sophomore in high school, but in the Qing Dynasty, this was the best age for princes to get married.Choosing a concubine for Hongli is actually choosing a future queen for the Qing Dynasty. Yongzheng took great pains.

Of course, the bride came from a famous family.She is one year younger than Qianlong, and her surname is Fucha, which is also translated as "Fucha" and "Fuercha" in Chinese, one of the oldest Jurchen surnames.In the Qing Dynasty, famous ministers with this surname came out in large numbers, and made immortal contributions to the establishment and prosperity of the Qing Dynasty.Wang Jinu, the distant ancestor of the Fucha family, followed Nurhachi and had a good record in the unification war. His great-grandfather Hashtun was a close minister of the Shunzhi Emperor and won the emperor's trust.My grandfather, Mi Sihan, was in charge of the finances of the Kangxi Dynasty, and all four of my father's brothers held high positions: my second uncle, Ma Qi, was once the most powerful Manchu minister in the Kangxi Dynasty, and my uncle, Ma Sika, was also the General of Pingbei, and made many military exploits .Only Li Rongbao, the father of the chief executive of Chahar, had the lowest official position among his brothers.

As for Fucha herself, Castiglione Castiglione's large oil painting has survived to this day.From the portraits, we can see that she has fair skin and clear eyes. She is not a coquettish and dazzling beauty, but can be called a normal and upright posture.In the portrait, she has a gentle and peaceful demeanor, without any air of arrogance, showing good demeanor and self-cultivation. She is unique simply because she was the first.The first time is always the best, it cannot be duplicated.Even though Fucha is just an ordinary woman, because she has experienced so many novelties in life hand in hand with Qianlong, she is destined to become the only one in Qianlong's heart, and no one can ever replace her.Just like the little prince's flower is indeed unique, although in fact she is among five thousand flowers that are exactly like her.The reason is because she was his first flower: "She is more important than all your flowers put together. Because I water her. Because I put her in a glass case. Because I put a screen on her Protect. Because I killed those caterpillars for her. Because I was the one who listened to her mourning, or boasting, or sometimes not even saying a word. Because she was my rose." ()

What's more, the Fucha family is by no means an ordinary woman.She is the rose among the grass, the phoenix among the chickens, her excellence is obvious at a glance.Just as the horoscope says, "Occupy the most virtuous and capable wives and stars", Qianlong is indeed a rare lucky person throughout the ages. As a man with depth, Qianlong's requirements for women are of course not only appearance, he cares more about connotation and character.Among the three major factors of family background, appearance and personality, Fucha's most prominent is character.Mrs. Fucha is a man who is both brilliant and naive; both shrewd and gentle; both understanding the general and paying attention to the small details; not only understanding but also principled; woman.When Qianlong was busy with his career, she used her shrewdness to coordinate and manage the harem, arranging and taking care of the prince's life and education, so that he would not be distracted.When he was troubled and emotionally agitated, she was like a flower that interpreted words, quickly understood his heart, shook hands lightly just right, and handed a piece of snacks by herself, silently on the back of his neck. A kiss can give him great comfort and make his mood quickly come out of the gloom.When he is in a good mood and has nowhere to vent his energy, she can play with him to his heart's content, accompany him on a gallop in the paddock, and even occasionally try to draw a bow and shoot an arrow.

There are very few details about Fucha's life in history books.Due to the limitation of style, "Drafts of Qing History" only reserved a few hundred words for her.Fortunately, in the few stereotyped words, we can still read her specialness: Although Mrs. Fucha is a lady, she never likes to work hard on her face, and hates gorgeous things like gold, silver and jewelry. Vulgar, even after becoming a queen. "Drafts of Qing History" said that the queen's mother has been in the world for thirteen years, and she lives respectfully and frugally. The queen is very good at understanding the mood of the emperor.One autumn, while traveling outside the Great Wall, the emperor inadvertently chatted with the queen. When the ancestors were outside the customs, they worked hard to start a business and were very frugal. It was a good decoration on the sleeves with deer tail fluff. It is not like today's The children of the Eight Banners competed for extravagance and wealth, inlaid with gold and silver.The emperor said these few words in passing, but the queen remembered them in her heart. After returning to Beijing, she specially made a flint pouch with the edge of deer tail hair and gave it to the emperor as a sign of mutual encouragement with the emperor. Frugality.The emperor loved it very much and kept it with him all the time.

The queen is generous, fair and orderly.The huge harem was handled peacefully by her, and all the palace people from top to bottom were completely convinced by her. For the daily life of the emperor, the queen is even more caring and takes care of everything by herself.Once Qianlong had a boil on his body, which was cured after treatment, and the dressing had to be changed frequently within a hundred days.Mrs. Fucha deliberately moved the bedding to the side room of the emperor's bedroom. Every day, she personally served tea and poured water, and took care of the emperor's dressing changes, never slacking off.It was not until the emperor fully recovered that he returned to the palace. ("Drafts of Qing History Biography of Concubine")

What can best reflect the empress' virtuousness is her attitude towards the empress dowager.As we all know, the Empress Dowager came from a humble background, she was just a rough girl at the beginning, although she was old, she still talked and laughed all day long, never changing her true colors.And the queen was born in a famous family, knowledgeable in books and etiquette, and her every move reveals the elegance in her bones.These two women have very different temperaments and demeanors, and it is reasonable to say that it is a bit difficult to get along with each other.But the queen regarded her mother-in-law as a mother from the bottom of her heart, and cared for her in every possible way.Because of the humble background of the Queen Mother, she pays special attention to politeness in front of the Queen Mother. When the Queen Mother eats and changes clothes, she takes care of it herself, and does not let other maids reach out.The queen mother was slightly unwell, she stayed up all night and waited on her.Unexpectedly, the queen who was born as a lady can endure such hardships, and everyone in the harem admires this very much.Therefore, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is extremely harmonious, and the old lady cannot leave her daughter-in-law for a day.For Qianlong, who regards filial piety as the sky, this really gave him great comfort. In the vast crowd, it is not easy to find a person who is really suitable for you. For everyone, this is a small probability event. It is my luck, not my fate, even for the emperor.As a man, Hongli is ambitious, talented, and conceited. He is unconsciously superior to others. He is an extremely picky perfectionist. There are few people who can be admired by him.However, he could hardly find any faults with this married wife. After ascending the throne, more and more young concubines entered the harem.While the queen's appearance faded, they bloomed one after another like dew-covered flowers.However, the queen still deeply attracted the emperor.The charm of the queen increases with the passage of time, just like a jar of fragrant wine, the older it is, the more mellow it will be.The Fucha family is his eternal rear, base camp, and eternal gentle harbor.As the years passed, the emperor gradually felt that the empress was quiet, gentle, and dignified, neither anxious nor impatient nor jealous, like a piece of jade close to his body, always adjusting his political temperature.The longer they live together, the more harmonious they get along. They can understand each other's every subtle expression and movement, and know each other's inner needs.It is precisely because of her that he can deal with state affairs energetically and push the Qing Dynasty to an unprecedented period of prosperity. However, "Tian Dao Ji Quan", especially perfect things, always have a particularly imperfect side. In traditional society, whether a woman is happy or not depends half on whether she has a son. Some people say that the sign of a man who really loves a woman is that he wants to have a child with her. Hongli was like this. From the first day of his marriage, he hoped that the Fucha clan would give him a son.On the one hand, he knows that only a son is the fundamental support of a woman; on the other hand, he firmly believes that the crystallization of him and her must be the most perfect, intelligent, and blessed child in the world. After one year and three months of marriage, the Fucha family successfully gave birth to their eldest daughter.Although she is a daughter, the royal family is also very excited, because this proves that Fucha's fertility is normal. Unfortunately, the girl only lived for fourteen months.Although it was an era with extremely high infant mortality rate, this incident dealt a heavy blow to the Hongli couple.It is reassuring that at this time, Fucha was pregnant again, and the expectation of the next child dilutes people's sorrow. On June 26, the eighth year of Yongzheng (1730), Hongli's eldest son was born.This was such a great joy that even Emperor Yongzheng was overjoyed and named it Yonglian himself.The Lian is also the vessel of the ancestral temple.The noble vessel used to hold millet during ancient sacrifices was called "Hu" in the Xia Dynasty and "Lian" in the Yin Dynasty.From the sensitive Hongli's point of view, this obviously implied the meaning of inheriting the ancestral temple. What's more, this child is too cute.As one would expect, he combines the best of both fathers and mothers: the face shape and mouth resembles his father's, while the big black and white eyes and straight nose resemble his mother's.As he grew up day by day, the child's cleverness and cuteness became more and more eye-catching. When he was only three or four years old, Hongli began to teach him to read and write. Character.Qianlong later said that this child was "smart and precious, with extraordinary bearing". Perhaps it was the luck brought by the name Yonglian, only ten months later, the queen gave birth to her second daughter.Both sons and daughters. On the second day of July in the first year of Qianlong (1736), the emperor, who had just ascended the throne, couldn't wait to handle the important matter of establishing a reserve.He summoned important ministers and announced that he would secretly establish a crown prince in accordance with the imperial examination ceremony, and hid the name of the crown prince in a secret letter behind the plaque of "Uprightness and Brightness" in Qianqing Palace. At that time, the emperor was only twenty-six years old, so he established a reserve so early, obviously because he loved a certain son too much.Although it is said that the crown prince was established in secret, who the crown prince is is an open secret. Once a person feels that he is too happy, then disaster may fall from the sky.Just when Qianlong, who had just ascended the throne, was full of ambition and felt that everything was under control, at the end of September in the third year of Qianlong (1738), his nine-year-old son Yonglian caught a cold.At first no one paid attention to it, but a few days later, his condition worsened, the fever persisted, and he died on October 2. It was totally a bolt from the blue. The first daughter died. Although Qianlong and the Fucha family were sad, they were not fatal.The death of this son almost destroyed the Fucha clan.She suffered a serious illness and lost weight suddenly. Within a few days, she was completely broken.The emperor was very worried and came to visit every day.However, the difference of the Fucha family was revealed at this time. In front of the emperor, she never showed her inner sadness.In order not to worry her mother-in-law, as soon as she was able to get out of bed, she went to her mother-in-law to say hello every day as usual.As soon as her physical strength recovered, she took on the task of managing the harem again. The emperor can only comfort himself and the queen by handling the child's funeral.He announced that the child's funeral will be handled according to the crown prince's high standards.He told the ministers: the second elder brother Yonglian is the son of the empress, he is intelligent, noble and extraordinary.On that day, I was honored to be named Yonglian by my father himself, which has already hinted that he will inherit the ancestor and continue the great line in the future.After I ascended the throne, I have already been established as the prince.Now the funeral can be carried out according to the crown prince's notes. ("Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty") After Yonglian's death, the number of times the emperor and the empress slept together was more frequent than before.The emperor knew very well that only letting the queen have another son was the greatest comfort to her.However, due to a serious illness, the body gas changed, and seven years passed in a blink of an eye, and the queen still failed to conceive.The emperor and empress made all kinds of wishes and prayers, but it was still useless. After seven years of torment, God finally gave grace again.In April of the eleventh year of Qianlong (1746), the queen gave birth to a son named Yongcong after much anticipation.Although Qianlong already had several sons at this time, he still loved this son like a treasure. Perhaps it was his father's partiality. He thought this child was the most beautiful, cutest, and smartest among all his children. Suhui, who is different from others, comes from Zhengdi, and is very intelligent."Although there is no secret decree, it is generally believed that this child will undoubtedly become the heir of the Qing Dynasty in the future. A bright smile appeared on Fucha's face again.The care and care this child has received cannot be overemphasized.The queen put almost all her efforts on him and never left him every day. Because of this, another blow seemed even more serious.On New Year's Eve in the twelfth year of Qianlong (1747), Yong Cong, who was only two years old, died of smallpox again. Qianlong couldn't recover for a while, he didn't understand what happened.Why did God punish him like this. After he regained his composure, he issued an imperial edict: Yong Cong, the seventh son of the emperor, was born with a strange appearance.The Empress Dowager loves him the most because he is the rightful son and extremely intelligent.I also want to make him his heir.Since I came to the throne, I have respected the heaven and the people, and asked myself that I have not offended the ancestors of heaven and earth, but why do the sons and daughters of the righteous line die early again and again?Could it be that since our dynasty established the Central Plains, the emperors of all dynasties have not succeeded in the right line.And I must want to inherit the lineage as a son-in-law and obtain the blessings that my ancestors failed to obtain, so the desire to seek indiscriminately caused such a disaster? ("Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty") This explanation may sound ridiculous to people today, but Qianlong believed it deeply back then.Otherwise, he, who deeply believes in the destiny, would not be able to understand why the heavens repeatedly dealt him such heavy blows. Although he was not established as a prince during his lifetime, Yong Cong's funeral was still far better than that of ordinary princes.The emperor's explanation was, "Empress Nian was born in a famous family. As a daughter-in-law, although she didn't serve her for a long time when her father was born, she has served the Empress Dowager all these years. Tolerant and benevolent, she can be called a virtuous empress. She gave birth to a beautiful child, but died again, it is very difficult. The funeral ceremony of the seventh son of the emperor should be regarded as the best of the prince." ("Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty") How could this decree really comfort the queen, but that's all the emperor could do.Fortunately, the Queen did not suffer from such a serious illness this time as last time.She silently hid her sadness in her heart, and acted unusually calm and strong.After the prince's funeral, she continued to speak and smile as usual, which surprised the emperor. Two months after Yong Cong's death, in February of the thirteenth year of Qianlong (1748), Emperor Qianlong was about to start his first eastward tour after he ascended the throne. This was confirmed and announced to the world in June last year. Since he came to the throne, except for ancestor worship and autumn hunting in Rehe, the emperor has been busy with government affairs and has not visited other places in the country.After 13 years of hard work, the country is stable and the people are stable. He finally has time to go to Qufu to pay homage to the most holy teacher Confucius.It was a big move he had planned for a long time. There is another important reason that is kept secret. The Queen Mother has always had a dream to climb Mount Tai. The preparatory work took half a year and cost a lot of money, but it was completed on schedule.Now there is only one question left to make the emperor a little hesitant: should he bring the queen?In the past, when the emperor went out, the empress was always by his side, let alone this time the empress dowager was going.The emperor had to preside over many ceremonies along the way, and the task of taking care of the queen mother was none other than the queen, so the queen insisted on participating. After the death of her beloved son, although the empress looked normal on the surface, the emperor was very aware of her haggard heart under her superficial strength.Although the queen was not seriously ill, she was constantly suffering from minor illnesses and her body was quite weak.In the ancient times when there was no modern means of transportation, it was difficult to persevere with a little physical strength for a round trip from Beijing to Shandong. Moreover, just one month before the departure, the officials of the Qin Tianjian said: "The guest star sees Li Palace, and there is a hole in the middle palace." "Li Gong" is the six stars in the sky named Li Gong.At the turn of the twelfth and third years of Qianlong, a so-called "guest star" that flickered and disappeared from time to time appeared among the six stars in the palace. . Reading the history books of China in the past dynasties, you will find many supernatural phenomena like this.The ancient Chinese believed in the unity of man and nature. For those bizarre legends such as "planets conjoining the moon" and "five stars connecting pearls" that foreshadowed human politics, we can all regard them as superstitions. This memorial has been proved to be an absolutely true fact by historical archives.Qianlong, who was quite superstitious about the destiny, attached great importance to this incident. However, after thinking about it for a while, he thought it was just because "the queen lost her beloved son", and it did not indicate that the queen herself would have any serious problems. After going on the road, the emperor felt that it was a correct choice to bring the queen out.Along the way, the spring breeze was mighty, and the whole family was in a good mood.The queen's long-lost eyes brightened, and she kept laughing all the way.The emperor's mood also became brighter.After the ceremony, the family went to Mount Tai again, and the emperor and empress waited on the old lady to climb the top of the Jade Emperor. On the third day of March, when the snow was new and the sun was clear, the emperor became very poetic and wrote a rare and fresh work: It's also a good time on March 3rd, and the spring will be ready to explore soon. The mountains are faintly covered with daisies in the clouds, and the sky is blue after snowing. The flower house and the vegetable border are outside the Guo, and the bamboo fence and thatched cottage are like those in the south of the Yangtze River. Lanting is the original version of Jingsi, and it is not easy for fat and thin families to understand. But extreme joy begets sorrow, the new snow that excited the emperor made the queen catch a cold.The emperor hurriedly settled down in Jinan, allowing the empress to recuperate at ease.She stayed in Jinan for three days, but the queen didn't get better and had a fever.The emperor didn't know what to do for a while. The empress urged the emperor to return to Beijing again and again.The queen knew well that the emperor had a detailed plan for every stop when he traveled, breaking the plan and staying in Jinan for one more day would mean adding countless pressures to Jinan.What's more, the east tour plan has been completed, so it is unreasonable for the empress dowager and many princes and ministers to live in Jinan just because they are waiting for themselves.She repeatedly urged the emperor to set off, saying that anyway, he would be able to board the ship when he arrived in Dezhou, and the journey back to Beijing would be very safe, so what are you afraid of?It was just a cold after all. The emperor weighed repeatedly and finally agreed to the queen's request.Fortunately, from the 7th to the 11th, from Jinan to Dezhou, the queen's condition remained stable and she withstood the bumpy road.After getting on the boat, the emperor breathed a sigh of relief, and finally felt in the mood to enjoy the scenery outside the window.The emperor remembered that when he first came out of Beijing, the willow trees in Dezhou had just been dyed a little green, but now the river bank is already covered with green clouds, red rain, and the colors of spring.Unexpectedly, when the emperor was admiring the spring scenery of the canal and was about to write a poem, the eunuch came to the emperor with a disturbed expression and informed the empress that her body felt uneasy again. Startled, the emperor immediately got up and went to the queen's boat.The queen's face was pale and her body was cold. Seeing the emperor, she forced a smile and said, "Why are you here again? It's nothing serious to me." The emperor lost his footing and nearly fell.More than a dozen imperial doctors were called to the Qingque boat.At dusk, the empress died under the gaze of the emperor. Qianlong was Qianlong after all.As emperor, he had no time for grief.There are countless things that need to be arranged by him: he has to arrange for Prince Zhuang Yunlu and Prince Hongzhou to escort the Queen Mother Yuzhou to return first, he has to arrange for the queen's funeral, he has to personally draft an edict announcing the queen's funeral... and so on. After that, it was already the early morning of the next day, and all the ministers had dispersed, leaving only the emperor alone.Accompanying the emperor was the sound of rushing water in the canal outside the ship.The emperor couldn't sleep for a minute. He picked up a pen and paper and wrote three elegiac poems: Twenty-two years of kindness and thirteen years of internal governance. (Twenty-two years of love between husband and wife, thirteen years of ruling the harem) Suddenly dreaming of the spring breeze, leaning towards the shore. (Everything suddenly turned into a dream in the spring breeze, floating on the bank of the canal) Shengci deeply remembers filial piety, and the palace is full of virtuous people. (The queen mother always calls you filial, and all the concubines admire your virtuousness) Forbearance to recite Guan Ju, Zhu Qin has broken the string. (From then on, I can't bear to read "Guanju Pian" in the Book of Songs again, because Zhuqin has broken the string) Summer and winter nights, there is a time to return. (Winter and summer seasons in previous years will also be separated temporarily) Half a lifetime, forever, when will it be decided once you see it? (This time it became a forever farewell, and we will no longer meet each other) The curtain clothes are set up empty, and the orchid curtain is still hanging down. (Your clothes are still hanging by the bed, but the curtains are empty) Back to thinking about sitting opposite each other, holding back tears and pity Jiaoer. (Not so long ago we were sitting here facing each other, recalling Jiaoer who passed away not long ago) Sorrows and joys are shared by children, and the greetings are never forgotten. (If you are happy, you will be happy together, if you are worried, you will be worried together. You will always be so considerate and gentle to me) Unparalleled Yi Heroine, left Ze sense concubine Qiang. (You are so outstanding among women, no one in the harem does not miss your legacy) One woman is sad, but two men die prematurely. (Two boys lost their lives, today a daughter lost her mother) I can't bear to recall the past, and I feel sad when I throw a pen! (This fact is really unwilling to recall, throwing a pen and sighing, dejected!) ("The Second Collection of Imperial Poems") The emperor's position has been messed up, and the elegy is just a factual statement, and the writing style is not outstanding.However, it finally vented a little bit of inner grief.After scribbling, the emperor fell asleep for half an hour. In fact, when the empress had just passed away, the emperor was more shocked.The truly penetrating grief struck more and more violently in the following years. After 22 years of marriage, he and the queen are like two big trees that depend on each other and grow intertwined. I have been in you, and you have been in me, and each other has become a part of each other.Within half a year after the queen left, on the surface, the emperor was still doing his best to deal with state affairs. However, mourning often rushed to his heart like a tide, and the torrent of grief was frequently rolled up. down any business.For several months, the emperor couldn't sleep well, and felt that the queen was still by his side at every turn, waking up frequently.The eunuch noticed that the always rigorous and shrewd emperor became dull, his aimless activities increased, his work was not efficient, and he often walked to one place, but forgot which memorial he was looking for.Sometimes what I just said is forgotten in the blink of an eye.Everyone in the harem was in fear, because too many people had made the emperor angry for no reason. The only thing that can really soothe the burning pain is poetry.On the day when the queen was full of mourning, he wrote a long poem "Shu Bei Fu": Lamenting on the imminent fate of my life, I am so sad that I will be abandoned by the first generation. Caused by sadness and internal injuries, Sui Miaoer died forever. ... Shang Qiang Huan comforts each other, and suppresses tears every time he is forbidden. Tears are suppressed, tears are dripping on the lapel, strong joy, joyful heart. ... Shadow and shape are hard to get rid of, living in and out of the way seems to be lost. For concubines, Qiang Xi thinks about Fang, Gu He respects and pities the weak. ... The metabolism of the shocking timing is as fast as ten ten days. ... Believe that life is like a dream, and it will be empty for all ages. Alas!Don't be sad when life is parted, who will follow when you lose your wife? Entering the pepper room is silent, and the phoenix tent is empty. The spring breeze, the autumn moon, and the moon are all here, so how do you know when the summer and winter nights will come back? The Changchun Palace is the queen's bedroom, and the emperor ordered that all the furnishings of the Changchun Palace be kept as they are without any changes.He put the Dongzhu Crown and Dongzhu Chaozhu used by the queen there. Every year on the anniversary of her death, he would come here to pay her respects.This practice has been maintained for more than 40 years, and it was not until the 60th year of Qianlong (1795) that he was about to abdicate to become the Supreme Emperor, and he ordered it to be withdrawn. The Qingque boat on which the queen died was the last place she lived.The emperor ordered the big ship to be transported into the city of Beijing.This was an almost impossible task at the time.Because the size of the ship is very large, and the gates of the city are narrow, it is impossible to enter the city in ancient times without lifting machinery.In order to keep the ship, the emperor wanted to tear down the gate tower.It was Haiwang, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, who finally came up with a method. He ordered people to build a wooden frame to pass through the crenels of the city wall, and set up wooden rails. The wooden rails were covered with fresh vegetables and leaves to make them lubricated. , with great effort, finally transported the imperial boat into the city. On March 22nd, the thirteenth year of Qianlong (1748), Emperor Qianlong issued an edict to bestow the posthumous title of Queen Daxing as "Empress Xiaoxian". In the edict, he made a comprehensive summary and high evaluation of the queen's life , and talked about the reasons for granting the posthumous title of "filial piety": Empress Fucha's family, De Zhongxun family, taught Bing Mingzong.I have been a matchmaker for twenty-two years, and I have been in the middle palace for thirteen years.To catch the emperor's examination, to be filial, to worship the Holy Mother, and to be deeply loved.Ask An Landian, very happy and tactful;Sexual symbol Kunshun, the ritual of respect and prudence in the court; Demao Hengzhen, the ode to the sages of the Tushi Association.Qin Kuanren was apprehended, and he was frugal and frugal.This is known in the palace and in the mansion, and it is also admired by billions of people.He died on March 11th, the thirteenth year of Qianlong.The family members are only Nei Zuo, who have borrowed praises for a long time.In memory of Yigui, Liang deeply mourns.It should be called a posthumous posthumous title, and it will be immortalized in Qianqiu; the Huiyin will be used forever, and the leftover fragrance will be broadcast in Yiyu.From the beginning, there is no one who knows a minister better than a king, no one who knows a son like a father, and no one who knows a wife like a husband.Yesterday, I wrote an elegy for the queen, which contained the line "Holy kindness and filial piety are deeply remembered, and the palace is full of virtuousness".Thinking of the honorable name of the word filial piety and virtuousness, it is indeed the virtuous virtue of the queen's life.She should be posthumously named Empress Xiaoxian.All the ceremonies should be performed, and Erbu will hear about them as usual. ("Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty") According to the rule, to bestow posthumous titles on the empress, the emperor first issued an edict, and then the ministers of ceremonies drafted a few words to play, and the emperor selected them.However, the posthumous title of Empress Xiaoxian was bestowed directly by the emperor, and was not drawn up by the ministers. There is no precedent for this. The mourning of the queen lasted a whole life. After the Fucha family, the harem cannot last long.Under the urging of the queen mother many times, in the fifteenth year of Qianlong (1750), the emperor appointed another concubine Ulanala as the queen. However, the emperor never liked Empress Nala.Like the Fucha family, she became his concubine before he came to the throne. She is also dignified and beautiful, with a virtuous temperament. It is difficult for the emperor to point out what is wrong with her.However, the emperor could no longer find love in his heart. In March of the sixteenth year of Qianlong (1751), on the third anniversary of Fucha's death, the emperor wrote such a poem to analyze why he did not love the new queen: The Dudan song comes three taboo weeks, and the shocking years are full of trust. (Time flies, three years have passed in a blink of an eye) Broken Soul coincides with the Ching Ming Festival, and the Qilu tour is unforgettable after drinking and hating. (It’s also the Ching Ming Festival, and I can’t help but think of that unfortunate east tour) It doesn't mean that the new piano will not be able to catch up in the end, but the old sword will always agree with each other after all. (Could it be that the newcomers are really inferior to the old ones? In fact, it is because they have been with the old ones for a long time) The peach and willows in the holy lake are bright and beautiful, and the strange bottom is only sad at present. (The lake is clear and the spring is bright, why am I so sad?) Although the emperor mobilized his love again and again, but the true feelings could not be forced, the new queen was always in name only.In the 30th year of Qianlong (1765), the queen, who had been neglected and depressed, finally had a conflict with the emperor and was thrown into the cold palace.Since then, Qianlong has never had a queen. The longing for Fucha haunted him for the rest of his life.As time went by, his nostalgia for her never faded.Any occasion involving her would cause him to mourn. When relocating and burying his second son, Yong Cong, he thought of the unfortunate fate of the mother and son, and wrote this elegy: As soon as the resentment is relieved, the golden goblet is poured, and when Liu Zhen is about to provoke. (When I was burying you, I couldn't help feeling sad again) Going to think about how to treat brothers and sisters, why should mothers follow children. (Your real brother is waiting for you. If your brother hadn't died, your mother wouldn't have left me so early) Try to say who can accept the encounter, but it is strange to encounter perverted fate. (My fate is surprisingly unfortunate, who can bear this kind of encounter) I can't bear to caress the coffin to express my remaining regrets, I don't know everything when I was a child. (Don't dare to stay in front of your coffin for too long, although you are young, you must also know my sadness) In May of the nineteenth year of Qianlong (1754), the emperor visited Shengjing in the east and visited his daughters Gulun and Princess Jing who were married to Mongolia when they passed through the Horqin Grassland.The Fucha clan gave birth to four children, and only this daughter survived and married Sebuten Baljur, the grandson of Prince Dahan of Mongolia.Facing his 24-year-old daughter, the emperor couldn't help but think of her biological mother again, and felt a pang of sadness in his heart: "Come to the banquet and enjoyment together, and turn my nose to remember the past." In the 30th year of Qianlong (1765), the emperor made his fourth southern tour and passed through Shandong again.Like the previous three times, the emperor did not enter Jinan City.The emperor wrote a poem explaining why he did not enter Jinan: If you don't enter the city for four times in Jinan, you may be prevented from living in a day of sorrow. In the spring and March, the past was divided into dramas, and seventeen years have passed and the hatred has not been resolved. In March 17 years ago, the queen fell ill here, and the emperor didn't want to recall the painful memories of the past, so he passed by in a hurry. The emperor made no fewer than a hundred such elegiac poems.Whenever he sees the items used by the empress during his lifetime, goes to the place where he stayed with the empress, meets festivals, or even sees wild geese flying south, he will miss the Fucha family.Every time the emperor visited Dongling, he would go to Yuling to drink wine for Empress Xiaoxian and offer sacrifices to his deceased wife. In the fifty-fifth year of Qianlong (1790), the 80-year-old emperor wrote such a poem in front of the mausoleum: Sanqiu don't suddenly, it's sour for a while. The memory is in the middle, and it is suitable to be called filial piety. It's hard to describe my whole life, and it's impossible to hope for a hundred years. Summer and winter nights are only twenty years in the future. The 80-year-old emperor said to his underground wife that as he got older, the only consolation was to see you sooner.I don't want to live to be 100 years old, and the longest period of meeting with you will not exceed 20 years! In the 60th year of Qianlong (1795), he still went to drink wine in front of the Queen's Mausoleum. The old emperor, who claimed to be the best in the world, was obviously old and needed others to support him everywhere.He sat in front of the grave for a long time and wrote a poem: I wanted to drive by, but it was not safe to be hypocritical. (I didn't expect you to come to the grave, but I still feel uneasy if I don't think about it) Three cups are not anti-drinking, four years old and cold. (I'll pour you three glasses of wine, and I haven't visited your grave for four years) The old scales of the pine species are long, and the clouds are open and the blue sky is wide. （当年的小松树已经长得参天了，大地无语，天高云淡） 齐年率归室，乔寿有何欢？（你先走了，剩下我一个人，活得再长，又有什么快乐可言？） 第二年，86岁的老人再一次，也是最后一次来到陵前，望着陵前高矗入云的松树，他写下了这样的诗句： 吉地临旋跸，种松茂入云。 暮春中浣忆，四十八年分。 在四十八年分句下，太上皇自注：孝贤皇后于戊辰大故，偕老愿虚，不堪追忆！ 这一年，乾隆帝与孝贤皇后已分离48年。3年后，也就是富察氏去世51年后，老皇帝终于撒手人寰，完成了和富察氏地下相聚的愿望。