Story of Yanxi Palace: Red Seal Spring Star

After a long time, I heard Concubine Rong say: Your Majesty, Shen Bi has returned, you are well, and the concubines are relieved.Then he broke free from the emperor and stood up.The emperor said anxiously: Don't go.Immediately grabbed her hand, stretched out the other hand to wipe her tears, Concubine Rong moved away.The original fear arose in the emperor's heart, and he said: Shen Bi, if you blame me, just say it, don't hold it in your heart.Concubine Rong started to cry again, but turned her face away from the emperor.

The emperor then lifted the quilt, stood up on the bed, and gently pulled her shoulders. Seeing that Concubine Rong didn't resist, he hugged her in his arms and said: "Be angry, say what you want, don't hold back." heart.Concubine Rong said: "Shen Bi doesn't dare, if the Empress and Empress find out, I'm afraid they will use the family law of their ancestors against Shen Bi."

The emperor heard her calm voice, but her words were very explosive, and he couldn't help laughing in his heart, knowing that she was really angry.But he couldn't hold back his laughter, and only said: Queen?she is there?Concubine Rong snorted, and said: "Emperor Niang is angry with Shen Bi, they are all very happy, and said... the emperor wants to laugh even more, they?"There must be Concubine Shu, but he just patted her head and said: What did they say?You don't have to care.Concubine Rong said faintly: They said that Shen Bi would not have children... The emperor's eyes froze, showing a sense of coldness, but it was gone in a flash, and he just patted her lightly without saying a word.

Concubine Rong said again: behind closed doors, you are so kind to Shen Bi, but outside, you never say a word for Shen Bi.The emperor laughed and said: If I still speak for you outside, then you will become the target of public criticism.Didn't I ask Li Yu to bring you back?What do you want from me?Concubine Rong said angrily: Then you can treat others like this.As he spoke, he wanted to break free from the emperor.

The emperor smiled and hugged her tightly, she continued to struggle, the emperor shook his body, let go of her, and supported his head with his hands, Concubine Rong knew that he was recovering from a serious illness, she thought he was dizzy, so she immediately supported him and said: Your majesty, are you all right?The emperor laughed lightly, hugged her in his arms, and said: Are you not angry?Concubine Rong said, "Okay, you lied to me!"As he spoke, he wanted to break free from him again.The emperor continued to smile and hug her tightly, and she let the emperor let him go.

The two stayed for a while, Concubine Rong said: Your Majesty, you should sit back on the bed, you need to rest.The emperor said: "Then you are not allowed to mention leaving again."The two sat on the bed together, and the emperor took her in his arms again.Concubine Rong said quietly: "Li Yu said, you are still concubine Ling, that's why you gave the concubine Ling to nobleman Wei, right?"

The emperor said: Don't listen to that slave Li Yu's nonsense, but do you really mind?Concubine Rong said: "Chen Bi doesn't mind her using that name, but I hope you can forget Concubine Ling. If you use this word, you will never forget her."The emperor said indifferently: I can't forget her, it doesn't make any difference whether I use that name or not.Rong Yin used to be the queen, but now the queen is Shushen, what's the difference.

Concubine Rong heard the deep meaning in his words, and suddenly remembered how Huo Jizhan treated her, she was infatuated for a while, and after a while, she said: If the empress first knew, how touched she would be.The emperor smiled and said: I can't forget Rongyin and I can't forget Concubine Ling, but you don't mind them, don't you understand my heart for you?Concubine Rong was deeply moved, and said softly: Well, I didn't mind at all.The emperor said: You are not angry with me, are you?Concubine Rong said: Shen Bi is not angry with you.

Seeing her pale complexion, frowning slightly, with tears streaming down her face, the emperor felt lost and worried, and because of her frail and overwhelmed attitude, she was more affectionate than when she was sick. He smiled slightly, kissed her on the forehead, and then raised his voice to call Li Yu. Concubine Rong was very surprised when she came in.Li Yu came in, saw the situation of the two of them, immediately knelt down beside the bed, and did not look down.The emperor said to Concubine Rong: You are not angry with Li Yu, are you?Only then did Concubine Rong understand that Li Yu had told the emperor the whole story, she looked at Li Yu and said, "Director Li, Shen Bi doesn't blame you, get up and go get clothes for the emperor."Li Yu quickly agreed, got up and backed out.

Concubine Rong said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, please go to sleep again. You must rest so that you can go to court as soon as possible."Shen Bi will stay outside to accompany you.The emperor said: "Alright, don't blame the Queen Mother, she is doing it for your own good."Concubine Rong nodded, and the emperor saw that she was reluctant, so he said softly: "Think about how she treats you, you will understand."Concubine Rong said: Alright, Shen Bi go think about it.

The emperor changed his clothes and went to bed, and when Concubine Rong came out, Li Yu followed her.She went to a further room, sat on the couch, and told Caiyun to bring her tea.Li Yu hurriedly said: "The servant will get it."When Li Yu brought her tea, she drank a few sips, told Caiyun to step back, and said to Li Yu: "Boss Li, sit down and talk."As he spoke, he signaled Li Yu to close the inner door.Li Yu understood, closed the door, came over and sat on the stool, and said in a low voice: Madam, you really don't blame the slave, do you?Concubine Rong glanced at him and said: Who blames you?Li Yu was overjoyed, as if he was relieved, he hurriedly smiled and said: "Yes, what are slaves?"

Concubine Rong sighed, and said: Is she really the former Concubine Ling?Li Yu nodded and said: You understand now, what the emperor said before.Concubine Rong said again: I think she and Master Fu Heng are really good.

Li Yu nodded, and said, "It was the emperor back then...Miss Yingluo was the concubine Ling. She was originally the grand maid of the Changchun Palace. She always liked Lord Fu Heng. To her, Lord Fu Heng really had nothing to say. The former empress wanted them to be together, and had a fight with the emperor because of them.So he told Concubine Rong some things he knew back then, how the emperor gave Erqing a marriage in the golden palace, but was rejected by Lord Fu Heng. In order to save her, the lord agreed to give the marriage. The queen persuaded the emperor to cancel the marriage to fulfill the two of them, and then knelt down to the emperor, but was rejected by the emperor.Then Miss Yingluo knelt on the snow for Lord Fu Heng and refused the emperor.

Concubine Rong had tears in her eyes after listening.Li Yu also said with emotion: Fortunately, the emperor finally helped the two of them, and the queen empress knew about it, and she died in peace.After Li Yu left, Concubine Rong shed tears and murmured: Why are there so many regrets in this world?

Three days later, the emperor resumed court affairs and all ceremonial arrangements, and gave Fu Heng a ten-day leave, asking him to go to Yuling to pay homage to the late empress Rongyin on his behalf.Zunhua Shengshuiyu, where Yuling is located, is more than 300 miles away from the capital. Fu Hengyingluo brought Fu Longan, nurse Zhuzhu Xiaoquanzi, and a group of more than 30 people, including the guards, who could only travel a hundred miles a day. It took four days to live in the palace along the way. The more people traveled, the less crowded it was, until they arrived at the palace in Lianggezhuang Village, six miles east of Tailing, and did not go to Yeling until the morning of the fifth day.

Yuling was built in the eighth year of Qianlong, and the main project was completed in the 17th year of Qianlong. It took nearly ten years and more than 170 million taels of silver.The coffin of Empress Daxing was originally buried in Changchun Palace. During the mourning period, the emperor wore onyx for 13 days and vegetarian for two months, and offered wine to the Empress of Changchun Palace every day.In March of the 17th year of Qianlong, the Empress Zi Palace of Daxing was moved to the Guande Hall in Jingshan Mountain for the funeral, and the emperor came to offer wine in person.After that, it was temporarily enshrined in Jing'an Village outside Dongzhimen, and the emperor often came to offer sacrifices in person.The inner and outer coffins were put into the imperial mausoleum after Yuling was built in October of the [-]th year of Qianlong. At that time, the emperor personally escorted him to the mausoleum and buried him in the underground palace. Long live in Yuanmingyuan.

Although it didn't snow that day, the weather was cold, and when the carriage was driving along the straight path, Ying Luo suddenly had a strange feeling.This is the emperor's auspicious place for ten thousand years, and the emperor is in his prime. A few days ago, she had said so many words by his bedside, saw him cry, heard him speak, and often corresponded with him, and suddenly felt that Ironic and ridiculous.Seeing her smiling, Fu Heng understood, so he smiled and shook his head.

After Fu Heng took the emperor's handbook and checked it with the mausoleum guard, he drove across the five-hole bridge, and there was a towering gate with six pillars and five doors, which was very magnificent.After passing the gate of the archway, there is a long path of stone statues. There are eight pairs of stone statues. From south to north, they are: civil servants, generals, horses, unicorns, elephants, camels, 狻猊, lions, wreaths and a group of small pearls. Zi, Zatiwei and Ah Zheng were seeing each other for the first time, and they all got out of the car, feeling very fresh.

Fu Heng had seen the stone statues of Emperor Kangxi's Jingling, and told everyone that the emperor's stone statues were three pairs more than Jingling's.Then he carried Fulongan to ride on the elephant and camel for a while, Fulongan giggled.At the end of the stone statue are two Tiantian pillars, the Xumizuo is carved with seven treasures and eight treasures, and the head of the pillar is carved with pictures of sea water, river cliffs, clouds and dragons.Pine and cypress trees are widely planted on both sides of the Shinto.After passing the Shendao stele pavilion, the car arrived in front of the dismounting stele, and everyone got out of the car and walked, asking the driver to wait here.

The Shinto Stele Pavilion faces north, and on the east and west sides of the Shinto Road are duty rooms, three rooms wide, where the Eight Banners soldiers guarding the mausoleum are stationed day and night, and at the end is the Longen Gate.In front of Long'en Gate is a manger ditch, which is used for draining water in and around the mausoleum.On the ditch is a three-way three-hole bridge.On the south side of the manger ditch, there are east-west facing houses, five rooms wide and three rooms deep.The Dongchao room is a tea and dining room, where milk tea is made during sacrifices, and the Xichao room is a pastry room, where pastries are made and fruits are prepared during sacrifices.

It was the Zhengbai flag that was on duty that day, and the army had already led a group of people waiting in front of the Sanlu Sankong Bridge. When they saw Fu Heng and his party coming, they immediately knelt down on one knee and saluted.Fu Heng stepped forward and said a few words to Can Jun with a smile, and then Can Jun led the crowd back to the side, and they crossed the bridge and entered the Longen Gate.

Behind the Longen Gate is the magnificent Longen Hall, which is made of golden nanmu, and there are Danbi stones dancing in dragons and phoenixes in front of the hall.The main hall of Yuling is built with precious golden nanmu as the main body, including gold bricks and white marble, and the blue and white stones are all stones.Golden nanmu has a good name, called "Wannian Jimu", which is very scarce. It started to be felled in the eighth year of Qianlong, and it lasted for nine years, which is equivalent to the whole project of Yuling.

The carved beams and painted buildings inside the Longen Hall are very exquisite. There are three Nuan Pavilions, the East Nuan Pavilion is a Buddha building, the Zhongnuan Pavilion now houses the sacred tablet of Empress Xiaoxian, and the West Nuan Pavilion houses the sacred tablet of Emperor Huixian and his concubine Gao.Everyone kowtowed in front of the queen's tablet, Yingluo had tears in her eyes, Fu Heng hugged her son, Fu Longan stared at the tablet curiously.

Between the Longen Hall and the gate of the mausoleum, there are three small and exquisite bridges with the same regulations, called Yudai Bridge.The gate of the mausoleum is divided into the middle gate and the small gates on the left and right sides. There are shadow walls on both sides of the middle gate, with red walls, yellow tiles and green glaze, which are very similar to the gates in the palace. After that, there are two pillar gates and five stone offerings. Fu Heng is here The emperor of the Chu Dynasty paid homage, and then entered the highest Minglou in the mausoleum.Minglou is located on Fangcheng in front of Baoding, and the stone tablet in Minglou is erected on Xumizuo.

Going down the stepped passage on the first floor of Fangcheng Minglou is the tomb passage leading directly to the underground palace.The light gradually dimmed, and the two relatives lit four torches. The tomb passage was heavily fortified and pitch-black, but because it was underground, it felt very warm. Under the steps was a stone gate with a glazed tile-shaped roof. The kissing beasts in the ridge are all carved out of white marble, and the carvings are exquisite.On the two walls of Shimen, there are four relief statues of heavenly kings, which are similar in size to real people, with various shapes and clear lines.Fu Heng said that the first door is called the cover door.

On both sides of the Toudaomen cave, there are four heavenly kings engraved on the walls. The Southern Zengtian King holding a sword is Pi Liuli; Viliubocha, the king of Duwentian in the north who is holding a flower umbrella and holding an ermine, is a slightly recluse.The four heavenly kings are tall and straight, with strong armor and sharp helmets, burly and majestic, majestic and majestic.

Fu Heng hugged Fu Long'an and looked at it by the firelight, the child giggled again, the deep darkness of the tomb passage was dispelled by the laughter, everyone laughed, and Yingluo felt joy spontaneously in her heart.There are two pagoda reliefs on the top of the Toudaomen cave ticket, and large Tibetan Buddhist scriptures are engraved on the wall.

On the top of the Mingtang coupon in the underground palace, there are vivid carvings of "Five Buddhas".The five buddhas occupy the five directions of east, west, north, south, and middle, each displaying supernatural powers and wisdom.There are pictures of "Five Desires" engraved on the walls on both sides of the hallway ticket.Fu Heng said that the Lord Buddha warned future generations that only by getting rid of these five desires can they enter the kingdom of heaven and the world of ultimate bliss after death.A group of lotus flowers are raised on each of the five pedestals, holding mirrors, pipas, fort incense, fruits, and heaven | clothes, five kinds of offerings in front of the Buddha. To the "five realms" of the five desires of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.Everyone heard that, in the dark, they all felt very mysterious and sacred.

The long coupon road passes through the first gate, two gates, and three gates in the middle. There are nine coupons and four gates in total, all of which are beamless halls with arched coupon structures.The eight doors of these four doors are carved with a standing statue of Bodhisattva, collectively known as the "Eight Great Bodhisattvas": Mahasthama Bodhisattva, Manjusri Bodhisattva, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, Obstacle-removing Bodhisattva, Void Store Bodhisattva, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, Cishi Buddha.Each Bodhisattva statue is about five feet high and is made of a young girl, with a lotus flower crown on the head, long hair in a high bun, ear rings, bare chest and backless, standing barefoot on the lotus platform, with a graceful body and a soft and serene expression. The tranquility and peace of the Buddhist family.Yingluo suddenly felt emotional in her heart: It's a pity that the former empress can't see anything...

Each stone gate is carved from a whole piece of blue and white jade, nine feet high, five feet wide, and about one foot thick. Each door weighs several thousand catties. The pipe fan makes the heavy stone gate operate flexibly when opening and closing. Now all the stone gates are open, but when everyone passes through the long tomb passage and stone gate, there is always a kind of inexplicable depression.Fu Heng said that when the emperor is buried in the future, all the stone gates will be sealed and will never be opened.

Finally walked into the main tomb of the last golden coupon, the last coupon of the underground palace.Three huge Buddha flowers are engraved on the top of the coupon. There is a Sanskrit Buddha image in the heart of the flower, 24 petals on the outer layer of the flower, and various magic tools around the flower.The Buddha flowers seem to come from the silk silk from the kingdom of heaven, carrying the gospel and covering them lightly, shrouding the peaceful dream of the Buddha kingdom.The upper part of the east and west horizontal walls of the Golden Coupon is a semicircular moonstone, on which a statue of Buddha and a group of eight treasures are carved, namely, the conch, the theory, the umbrella, the sausage, the white cover, the goldfish, the vase, the lotus, and other parts. It is full of Tibetan Buddhist scriptures and Sanskrit mantras.

The tomb is not big, and there are four high platforms in the room, each of which is lit with an oil lamp. It is not so dark. You can see the Mizuo treasure bed surrounded by a circle. Leave it blank, and the coffin of Emperor Huixian Gao's coffin is placed against the wall on the right.Fu Heng hugged Fu Longan and stood side by side with Yingluo, and the rest of them were divided into several rows behind them, kneeling together before the queen's coffin and prostrating.

Fu Longan seemed to be overwhelmed by the solemnity and coldness here, he no longer laughed, but looked around with wide eyes.After prostrating, Fu Heng asked the nanny to hold Fu Longan, and went out with Pearl Xiaoquan to wait in the Ming Building. He took a torch and put it on the high platform on the side. He and Yingluo would stay here for a while before going out.Fu Longan didn't want the nanny to take him away, but Fu Heng whispered a few words in his ear and kissed him again, so he stopped making trouble.

The author has something to say:

[饺饺] Manchus call all dry food foods 粉饰.The Manchus are a fishing and hunting nation. They have been hunting and fighting in the wild for a long time, and they carry sticky food, which saves trouble and fights hunger. Therefore, they like sticky food, honey, and drink rice paste tea, and gradually develop the habit of living at home. There is also the custom of eating cakes in food, and various cakes are also used in wedding and funeral customs, ancestor worship and god worship.As the Manchus entered the Central Plains, they also brought this custom into the pass and became various snacks around Beijing, such as "Saqima" and "Donkey Rolling", which have become famous snacks.After the mid-Qing Dynasty, there were pastry shops in all major cities, making all kinds of pastry, the more famous ones were "big eight pieces" and "small eight pieces".Pastry is a general term for various pastries, mainly including sugar fire, bird's nest crisp, ox tongue cake, fennel cake, bergamot, horseshoe and more than 30 varieties.Dumplings are called [cooked dumplings] in Manchu, and they must be cooked during the winter solstice.The Fangshan boiled pastry is only the size of a chestnut, and the soup is sour and spicy, which is both appetizing and warming.

[Yuling] Because it was stolen, the underground palace was excavated, and we can see the beauty inside today, as shown in this section.However, Kangxi’s Jingling Underground Palace (also stolen) and Yongzheng’s Tailing Underground Palace (the tomb was not successfully robbed) are not visible to the public, only the above-ground part can be seen.The regulations above and below ground should be similar, but the Yuling Underground Palace should represent the highest achievement of the Qing Dynasty Mausoleum Underground Palace. The architectural design, exquisite stone carvings and the design of the stone gate are all ingenious. Let alone in such an era, even today People are amazed.The contents of the stone carvings all come from Tibetan Buddhism.

Jingling was the first royal tomb in the Qing Dynasty to abolish cremation and implement the burial system; Kangxi first opened the emperor's tomb to bury the queen first, and did not close the stone gate, waiting for the emperor's precedent.In the first year of Yongzheng, because of Yunxiang, Yongzheng gifted his mother Zhang Jia to the imperial concubine and buried it in the Jingling Underground Palace, creating a precedent for the imperial concubine buried in the emperor's mausoleum.Yongzheng is buried in the underground palace of the Tailing Mausoleum, honoring Empress Xian and Imperial Concubine Dunsu (Nian Guifei).If there is no precedent, maybe only Qianlong, Empress Xiaoxian and Empress Xiaoyi (that is, the imperial concubine) will be buried in the Yuling Underground Palace.Empress Xiao Shengxian, Qianlong's biological mother, did not want to be buried in the Tailing Mausoleum. Emperor Qianlong built the Taidong Tomb specially for her in the second year of Qianlong. Ding Dongling.According to the Qing palace archives, the ground of the Taidong Mausoleum’s underground palace (unexcavated) was not paved with strips of stone, but with gold bricks. It was the first underground palace in the Qing Mausoleum where scriptures and Buddha statues were carved.