Chapter 18 Guanju Palace

In order to chase an imaginary gentle snow, I set foot on the frozen Northeast land. From Dalian to Lushun, it is always snowy and sunny.After arriving in Shenyang, drive to the Forbidden City.It was here that Huang Taiji established "Manchuria" and changed the name of the country to "Qing". Because it was before entering the customs and at the beginning of hardships, it was far less majestic than the Forbidden City in Beijing, but it was also simple and practical. It can be seen that the entrepreneur planning considerations.When stepping into the palace gate, the clouds were deep, as if some snowflakes could be brewed.

Huang Taiji in the portrait is a broad-faced man, very different from his son Emperor Shunzhi's oval face and Wenxiu facial features.Years of fighting have made him strong and rugged, with a complexion that is scarred by the wind, frost and scorching sun. Huang Taiji, officially proclaimed the emperor, listened to the government in the main hall, and the golden dragon on the pillars in front of the gate raised its head and danced its claws, showing its mighty power of expanding the territory.With the main hall as the center, the fifteen pavilions arranged in a figure-eight shape created an original system in which the monarch and ministers work together to handle affairs, which further reveals the great talent of this man who dismounted from the horse and governed the country.

At the same time, he established the palace system and built a courtyard-style harem.Qingning Palace is the bedroom of Huang Taiji and his concubine Empress Xiaoduanwen. Marrying the daughter of the Mongolian royal family had more or less political considerations on that day. , also this Mongolian woman.A friend once explained that the reason why he refused to get married easily was: if he would sleep in the ground with a woman he didn't love in the future, and he couldn't escape, it would be terrible.When he said this, there was real worry in his eyes.The common people are fine, the vicissitudes of life cannot last for a few generations.The mausoleums of expensive emperors are often well preserved. Thinking about it this way, I don't know whether it is luck or misfortune.

In front of Qingning Palace, there are four sleeping palaces for the four concubines of Huang Taiji, namely Linzhi Palace, Yongfu Palace, Yanqing Palace and Guanju Palace.Linzhi, Yongfu, and Yanqing are all named after symbols of auspiciousness and wealth. In fact, Concubine Zhuang gave birth to the Ninth Prince Shunzhi in Yongfu Palace.Barnyard officials and wild officials focused their attention on Shunzhi. This Shunzhi, who ascended the throne at the age of six and died or became a monk at the age of twenty-four, had the most colorful life in his life and death love with Concubine Dong E.Such a plump and bright appearance and youth seem to be for an immortal love.

But because of curiosity, I stopped in front of Guanju Palace for a long time.Imagine Huang Taiji waving his whip and pulling his bow so that his fingers were covered with calluses, he opened the title page, and read word by word: Guanguan Jujiu, in the continent of the river;Staggered waterweed, flow from left to right; fair lady, longing for it.Imagine the radiance on his young face when he read this poem for the first time.From then on, I planted a song in my heart, a secret hope. After middle age, when Huang Taiji ascended the throne and built a palace, when the words "Guanju Palace" were hung up, everyone in the palace looked up.What a profound meaning.That deeply buried song is as vigorous as a spring tree, simple and enthusiastic, and it is sung in every corner: variegated waterweed, pick it from left to right;There are different waterweeds, left and right, and gentle and fair ladies, played by bells and drums.Every favored concubine's eyes were red with suspicion. When the answer to the mystery has not been announced, everyone has a chance; all are possible.Conjecture whispered in confusion, who is Huang Taiji's favorite woman?Who is?

The noise was like flames, and only one woman smiled calmly and steadily, like a piece of cool and clean snow, even her smile was hard to detect. "Huang Taiji's most beloved Concubine Chen lives here." The tour guide approached and said smoothly, "Huang Taiji is on the front line. Hearing the news of her death, he burst into tears and returned to the imperial court." I stepped on a cracked floor tile, and the shaking came from the ground, like chariots and horses galloping along with Huang Taiji.The chariot and horse once devoured the world with the power of thunder.The unrivaled hero who fought against death and killing all day long, didn't even have room to fight, and watched death looting his favorite woman.The neck that was always waiting was stiff, and the pupils full of understanding and pity were closed.

On the stone steps of Guanju Palace, he couldn't help the tearing pain, and he shed tears that he never shed easily. The violent mourning and tears made all the followers terrified and shocked, not daring to look up. The hero who swallowed mountains and rivers, the god revered by the people, a piece of steel that has been tempered thousands of times since childhood, the moment he shed tears, Huang Taiji was just a mortal.Suddenly there is flesh and blood, and there is touching tenderness. "Concubine Chen must be a peerless beauty, so her death makes Huang Taiji very sad." The tour guide said to the others.

Concubine Chen is not necessarily the most beautiful, but she is the most special, which can be seen from Huang Taiji's title.Chen is a profound house and the place where the emperor lives, so the title of Concubine Chen should not be accidental. Huang Taiji is the most romantic dreamer and at the same time the most fierce practitioner. His ambition and insecurity are contradictory and blended into a strange depth.Even himself, sometimes he wished to be alienated from that restless soul.And she, the concubine Chen, was able to fully accommodate him with the most generous and selfless love.Embrace his pride and trauma, soothe his loneliness and stubbornness.He provided her with the Guanju Palace where he was well-clothed and well-fed, and she gave him a resting place for his wandering soul.

Empress Xiaoduanwen has authority and honor; Concubine Zhuang has heirs to inherit the hegemony; Concubine Chen who lives in Guanju Palace, even if she is lost in history or family history, she has the precious tears of the king and his love. At the age of fifty-two, Huang Taiji sat in Qingning Palace and died without any illness.At that moment, did his face unconsciously turn to the nearest Guanju Palace?Do you still hear the chanting of that song: I can't ask for it, I am thinking about it, I am leisurely, I am tossing and turning. When we left Shenyang Forbidden City, the clouds and shadows disappeared, and we saw the sun again.However, because of that ballad, in my heart, the snow is blowing.