Story of Yanxi Palace: Red Seal Spring Star

There is also an old Manchu custom of washing three "hanging threads", that is, the elders on both sides hang the "cord" made of blue and white two-color cotton thread and rags around the neck of the child to protect the child's health.The Empress Dowager came from the Changchun Garden to hang up the thread, and before she came, she gave a bunch of things first, and on the day of the third wash, all the decorations in the imperial concubine's residence have been changed.

Wei Mei's favorite is a gilt bronze and sandalwood Buddha statue from the Northern Wei Dynasty.According to Buddhist scriptures, after the Buddha became enlightened, he wanted to repay his mother's kindness, so he ascended to the Taoli Heaven to speak for his mother.He asked Mu Jianlian to preside over a Buddha statue carved with sandalwood. After returning to the world from the heaven, this statue personally consecrated the sandalwood Buddha.This Buddha statue has a bun on its head, a peaceful face, a fearless seal on its right hand, and a vow seal on its left hand. It is dressed in a cassock with a shoulder-length round collar.

Concubine Ling no longer has any relatives from her natal family, because she is close to Mrs. Nalan, and Mrs. Nalan is a noble lady with both children, so the emperor asked the queen to invite Mrs. Nalan to hang up the fifteenth elder brother on behalf of the woman's family. It didn't happen at the baptism of the other three children, so Wei Mei felt relieved.On the day of Xisan, the emperor gave the imperial concubine Ling an octagonal clock with a gold-plated copper stand, a pair of white jade lotus root bracelets, and an emerald necklace. The apple green is very eye-catching.

At that time, only the emperor and concubine Rong had already moved into Xiyuan, and the rest were still in Yuanmingyuan, and had not started to move.Seeing the Empress Dowager and Yingluo, Nala's heart was overwhelmed with sympathy, but she couldn't find a reason. On the surface, she had to be polite and soft-spoken.

In Tiandijiachun, the empress dowager and the emperor sit first, the empress takes the third place, and the grandma who gave birth takes the fourth place.Concubine Rong has participated in the three baptisms of Qigege, Jiugege, and Fourteenth elder brother, so she is very familiar with it, but she still loves the excitement.Put six coins in the Xisanzhi basin, three ingots of heavy gold and six ingots of silver.Concubine Shu was exempted from the future due to her funeral. She and Concubine Qing and Concubine Ying "made a pot" together, and the room was full of laughter.The emperor was very happy, the queen mother also smiled from ear to ear, and the two took turns hugging Yongyan.

Nalashi was also reluctantly laughing, she looked at the baby's full head of fetal hair, crying loudly, and felt sad, Yongjing was also like this, she was born with fetal hair, and later reborn like fluffy grass, at that time he He looks so fat, the emperor would tease him when he came to Chengqian Palace... Yingluo looked at the emperor from the side, thinking of the "Five Seals of Great Compassion in White | Heart Dharani Sutra" he wrote for the birth of the seventh elder brother, and the empress of the past And Seventh Brother, look at Nala again...

After the three-day bath at noon, the queen mother gave the queen and concubines and Mrs. Nalan a string of Buddha beads carved from Sumatran rhino horn. , is the top grade of rhino horn material beads.In medicine, Sumatran rhino horn has the effects of treating epilepsy, fever, stroke, and clearing away heat.Then the queen, the concubines and Mrs. Nalan went to visit the concubine Ling in the confinement room.

For Fu Heng's important matter, Yingluo didn't want to have a public banquet at home, and she didn't hold a large banquet to invite all the court officials. So Concubine Rong and Gao Yun discussed it, and they all went to her house in Nanyuan to have a good time.Present here are Concubine Rong, who was authorized by the emperor to leave the palace secretly, Fu Heng and his wife, Aisha and his wife, Haishi and Yongqi's mother and son, although no one knew about their relationship.Yingluo gave Gao Yun a blue and white goblet with moon shadow, winter plum and phoenix tail, and a set of gilt copper, enamel and jade inlaid eight auspicious Buddha offerings as a reward.

Gao Yun saw that the pattern on the flower cup was very peculiar. On a white background, there were large white plum blossoms painted in the shape of two big blue and white phoenix tails.White jade carved eight auspicious Buddha offerings each sit on the back cover, and the bottom center is engraved with a crossed vajra.The whole body is decorated with gilt, filled with light blue enamel, rolled leaves, vases, and the base is filled with royal blue and turquoise green enamel.Gao Yun didn't know why Yingluo had this thing, Yingluo just smiled and said nothing. In fact, it was given to Gao Yun by the emperor as a gift from her hand, because the emperor couldn't come to celebrate Fu Heng, and he knew that Yingluo came to Gao Yun to avoid suspicion. To celebrate at home, I have to be a host myself.

Concubine Rong also brought Gao Yun a large blue and white plate from the palace. A huge phoenix across half of the plate faced a big peony with lush branches and leaves.Concubine Rong’s congratulatory gift to Fu Hengyingluo was a Ming Zhengde Arabic cylinder-type porcelain stove, the whole body was painted with five colors, the upper and lower parts were painted with Ruyi cloud pattern borders, and the center was bright and magnificent with folded flowers. The text, the font is elegant and free, with simple and elegant rhyme.Yingluo knew that Mingde Hui-style bronze wares were common, but porcelain wares were rare. This was an absolute rarity.So when she asked her about the emperor's move into Xiyuan, Concubine Rong just smiled and said: Madam, just worry about Mr. Fu Heng.

At this gathering, Aisha and his wife formally met the fifth elder brother and knelt down to greet him.Yong Qi hurriedly called out, and said: I am a junior, I should have called you aunt and uncle, there is no need to be more polite.Concubine Rong smiled and groaned beside her.The men gathered together, not talking about hunting, but talking about guns, and then they went to the shooting range in the garden to shoot guns. Yong Qi also asked Tie Pu a lot about what he had seen and heard outside, and praised Tie Pu as a master of Tantric Buddhism.

As the hostess, Gao Yun made arrangements for several days in advance. Yingluo and Concubine Rong saw that she made homemade bacon, homemade milk wine, homemade milk skin, etc., they laughed and said that she must be very busy on weekdays. The best beef and mutton brought by people must be smoked to be preserved.The milk skin is because the Mongolian fresh milk happened to be delivered yesterday.Concubine Xie Rong and the emperor used the compradors in the frontier fortress of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to deliver goods.Concubine Rong smiled and said: You know, I don't eat pork, it's just for myself.

Aisha especially likes the nasturtiums in the back garden of Gao Mansion.Gao Yun said that Holihu Dongchuan, where the Shangdu was located in the Yuan Dynasty, was named Jinlianchuan because of the blooming of nasturtiums all over the mountains and plains.Jinlianchuan Grassland is not only a natural fine pasture with clear water and beautiful grass, but also a place for horseback riding and hunting, and a cool recreation place for summer vacation. It was once a summer resort for emperors of Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties.Every summer, it is full of nasturtiums, looking like a golden ocean from a distance, stretching on both sides of the Shangdu River in the upper reaches of the Luan River.

In the first year of Emperor Xianzong of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan was ordered to be the commander-in-chief of the "Military Affairs of the Han Dynasty in Monan". , Then he got on his horse and went south with a whip.Later, he ascended the throne of Mongolian Great Khan in Jinlianchuan, and then forcibly established a Great Yuan Empire that dominated Eurasia.Jinlianchuan is exactly the place where Kublai Khan's dragon prospered.

Nasturtium is not a lotus, but a cool and cold-tolerant plant that grows on land. The flower color is golden, with seven petals surrounding its heart. There are several flowers on one stem, which are as small as lotus.There is a poem in Yuan Haowen: "The golden flower is brilliant, and Artemisia argyi is born from it. Savages don't know how expensive it is, and the fragrance is scattered in the autumn wind." Golden flower is nasturtium.

In Gao Yun's garden, there is only one kind of golden lotus planted, and it forms a large area, which Baljur jokingly called the Little Golden Lotus River.Because Jinlian likes humidity, the back garden of the high house consumes a lot of water. Fortunately, Nanyuan has abundant water sources. Later, the emperor ordered Fu Heng to send someone to widen the water diversion channel for her garden.Every time when the golden lotus blooms, she invites Concubine Rong and the emperor to have a banquet to enjoy the flowers, and she plays the two-stringed zither and sings to cheer up.The emperor borrowed Nanyuan to hunt, and brought Concubine Rong to her house to have a look, and then Concubine Rong lived in her house for a few days by herself.

Every time the emperor came, Gao Yun used a set of tableware with red cross vajra and eight auspicious patterns in the glaze from Qianlong, and used Mongolian jade wine bowls to hold milk wine to show his respect and gratitude to the emperor.The wine bowl has a very thin wall and a shallow mouth. There are patterns of nasturtium leaves around the edge of the bowl and near the feet. There is a small nasturtium bud-shaped handle on the edge of the bowl, and a gold-coated gemstone is embedded on it. The gemstones are different for each bowl. , There are rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, which are Horqin's things.

It was already past the flowering season, and Aisha asked Gao Yun for dried nasturtiums, which were used as medicine for clearing heat and detoxifying aphthous throat, and asked her what she and Baljur exchanged when the emperor passed by Horqin on his east tour.Gao Yun told her that he embroidered a belt for Xiaoer, which was exactly the same as before, because he didn't use other people's embroidered belts.It was exactly the same as before, because I was afraid that Horqin's people would be suspicious.What Xiaoer sent back was a small saddle he made for the two children himself, which was used on the wooden horse.

Aisha saw that the pair of saddles were just two pieces of high-quality soft leather, bordered, and tied with straps underneath. Although small, they were exquisite and expensive, with various decorations, and she liked them very much. Gao Yun said to write to Xiao Er, next time I ask the comprador to bring a pair to Aisha's son, Aisha said: I dare not do it, the prince must be very busy.Gao Yun then said that Aisha and the others would bring the skins and decorations to Aisha and make them by themselves. Whatever they do would look good. Aisha was very happy, but Pudawa laughed at her. His son could only stand up against the wall, and he couldn’t even walk. Then toss on these.Aisha smiled and said: I want it for Sonomu!He's going to be crazy!

What Gao Yun didn't say was that she also brought something to the Mongolian doctor and his wife, and the whereabouts of her and the child. The two old couples were also insiders, and they were very happy and comforted.Every time Xiao Er came, she would teach them to bring them the clothes in Beijing.The private liaison office established by Baljur in Nanyuan is generally responsible for delivering letters and reporting the situation of her mother and child.Every year around the beginning of spring and Mid-Autumn Festival, she would take her children back to Miyun to visit their "grandparents".She still likes to sing, she can sing no matter what she does at home on weekdays, and people come to sing. Her life is like a comfortable and idle lady in Beijing, but she can't see Xiao Er often.

According to the annual shift system, Baljur will definitely come to Beijing around New Year's Day, and will stay until the end of the first month. At other times, he will come whenever he can, so he always comes to Beijing two or three times a year.This Ziguangge event is close to the end of the year, so we can't go away, so we have to wait until the twelfth lunar month to come again.

Duo Luo's position is sensitive and he was not invited. Rongrong sent several congratulatory gifts to Fu Heng and his wife.Ybor didn't come either, because she was now nearly eight months pregnant, the burden of the twins was heavy, and the two children moved very violently, which disturbed her restless.According to Ye Tianshi's instructions, every day after breakfast, he walked slowly around the garden with the help of Nanny Pan and two maids.Every day, He Zhu personally visited the west courtyard to greet her, and Hu Jiajia would also come to sit with her for a while, and they both talked happily about their children.

After she didn't go out, Mingliang resigned and left the palace, and was promoted to the head of Yin Yunhui, one of the deputies under Luan Yiwei, second only to the Minister of Health, Doro.At that time, she specially summoned Mingliang and rewarded him with a pair of Hetian jade-covered silver bracelets and an ice-species floating blue jadeite bracelet.The carrying is the hanging buckle used on the men's belt, the silver bottom bearing cowhide ring sleeve, the wishful cloud head, and the lower part is hollowed out with a dragon and a phoenix facing each other.She said that although Mingliang was already married and had children, Fengzhu, the fourth daughter of the old twelfth master, was not born in Fucha Fujin, but she had known her since childhood, but she had never seen her since she married and entered the palace. This is a congratulatory gift from himself and Yongqi to his husband and wife.

It turned out that Yunxuan's descendant, Fu Jin, was the daughter of Ma Qi, a scholar of the former dynasty who was reused by the late emperor, and Ma Qi was the brother of Li Rongbao, so this Fucha family was Fu Heng's cousin.Yunyu was originally the son-in-law of the Fucha family, and Mingliang and Fengzhu's marriage was a close relationship.Mingliang thanked her, and said that Fengzhu also missed Xiao Gege, congratulations to Xiao Gege.Yi Boer said: If you are interested, let her come to the palace as a guest, this is not a palace, feel free.After that, Fengzhu often came to Rongwang's mansion, and Fu Heng's sister-in-law was also very happy.But the identities of these two people are different from before. Yiboer was born in Baoyi, but now he is the prince Gege and pregnant with the emperor's grandson. Although Fengzhu is still the princess, Mingliang is only a second-class guard.

The Suo family was delighted, Guanbao's wife often came to visit her daughter in the palace, and the mother and daughter spent many good times together.Guanbao's wife has fair skin, a small face, kind eyebrows and kind eyes. When she smiles, her eyes are narrowed into slits. Every time she comes, she brings her own bad goose palm marinated meat and exquisite tea and food. Ebol will call Fujin Sit with Hu Jiajia in the West Garden.She praised He Zhu very much, saying that she was better than Yi Boer, and Yi Boer never made her feel at ease since she was a child.

It was a certain day before the emperor's east tour. He Zhu asked Nanny Tao to take out the two homework she had done and sent someone to send them to the palace. It is taught to send Hu Jiajia as boxed snacks, including Chuxiu Palace.Just at this time, Guanbao's wife came to the middle courtyard to say hello to her first, and then carefully looked at the work.

I saw a bald young monk on the white ground wearing a dark yellow black robe with dark blue borders, holding his right knee with both hands, looking up at the sky, with a perfect face, rough eyebrows and eyes, and a naive look.A bright red long skirt, with two "crane and deer in the same spring" patterns embroidered vertically with silver thread, but the two sides are asymmetrical, separated by flowing cloud patterns in the middle, and a circle of wishful patterns embroidered on the skirt.He Zhu used the Cantonese embroidery technique he is good at. The stitches are fine and even, and a lot of thought has been spent on it at first glance.Guanbao's wife was full of praise.

He Zhu hurriedly let her sit down, and asked Nanny Tao to serve tea, and then stroked the cat, saying: "My elder brother said that I am weak, so I don't call it needlework. I haven't even done my elder brother's sewing, but I should do it for my elder brother." Respect and filial piety, and Concubine Rong and Concubine Qing are very concerned about me, how can He Zhu take it for granted?Don't be in a hurry, do it slowly and don't get tired.Guanbao's wife nodded, Kuahezhu was sensible, and said that the fifth elder brother was considerate of her.

Nanny Tao brought tea, and said to Guanbao's wife: Mrs. Suo is so kind, it would be great if our mother-in-law in Fujin was like you.Mrs. Guanbao asked when she heard the lecture, and Nanny Tao told her that O Bi's wife always wrote to urge Fujin to have a child.Mrs. Guanbao smiled and said: "Emiang must be like this. She really loves her daughter like this. You only have this daughter in Fujin's family. If she doesn't love Ama and Erniang, who else can she love?"You Fujin are delicate, delicate, glass heart-like characters, capable and filial, so annoying, I like it.

He Zhu blushed, and said to her again: Madam Suo, you are not an outsider, you must know that Elder brother's mother-in-law is in the nunnery, I kept saying that I would go to see her, but Elder brother said she saw no one, not even Elder brother.Mrs. Guanbao nodded, she didn't know that Haishi lived in Yujing Garden, and Yiboer was very familiar with this genuine mother-in-law, and sighed: "Parents in the world love her, she is also for your elder brother, you are a good boy, Bodhisattva will definitely bless you.

Afterwards, she often comforted He Zhu with good words, and because He Zhu's family members were not in Beijing, they cared about her very much, often asking about daily life and taking medicine, He Zhu and her naturally became close.She also said that Ibor's pregnancy is not like a brother, and she doesn't hurt Xi Yunyun.Hu Jiajia sat aside, just smiling.Nanny Pan's face was ugly, but she dared not speak. Although the relationship between the west courtyard and the middle courtyard has improved a lot, she and Nanny Tao still don't talk to each other very much.Later, Yong Qi was told about this, and Yong Qi told her not to take it to heart.

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[Emerald] In ancient times, emerald was a bird that lived in the south. Its coat color was very beautiful, usually blue, green, red, brown and other colors.Generally, the male of this kind of bird is red, which is called "fei", and the female is green, which is called "cui".It was after Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty that jadeite objects had real commercial value and market.In just a few decades, the price of top-grade jade has risen by more than a hundred times, and the price exceeds that of jade.And it was not a precious thing before.

[milk wine] is milk wine, which is the top grade of wine used in the Qing palace.Milk wine is a distilled wine made by fermenting cow's milk or horse's milk. This kind of wine is the daily wine of Mongolians, and its alcohol content is very small.According to the record in "Compendium of Materia Medica": Milk wine began in the Yuan Dynasty.During the Qing Dynasty, Zhangjiakou Outer Horse Group Manager and Shengjing Yangshi Herds of Cattle would hand over 2887 catties of milk wine every year; Outer Fan Mongolia paid tribute to 9 small bottles of milk wine every year.These wines are managed by Guanglu Temple, and all the palace needs to get them from Guanglu Temple.According to the "Regulations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs", the Qing Palace will receive 160 bottles of milk wine from Guanglu Temple every year, each bottle weighing 13 catties and 8 taels, totaling 2208 catties.

"Kangxi Living Notes" records: In June of the 23rd year of Kangxi (1684), Emperor Kangxi toured outside the Great Wall and gave milk wine to the accompanying king, ministers, guards, and Mongolian princes to drink happily with everyone.On June 21st, the sky was clear, the breeze was cool, and the Mongolian grassland stretched as far as the eye can see, with tens of thousands of horses passing by without any boundaries.In the early morning of this day, Emperor Kangxi led the king, ministers, and guards to inspect the horses, camels, cattle, and sheep herds in front of Huang Wei.Along with the rewards, more than 5000 horses were rewarded to the ministers and princes, and milk wine was rewarded to the ministers by playing music.Emperor Kangxi looked around at the king and ministers and said: "This wine is steamed from the milk of horses in the herd. It was sent by the leader of the herdsmen, so I drank it with the king and all the ministers at the place where I watched the herds. The sun is harmonious today. And in Cedi, please drink with peace of mind." The servants were dispatched to tell the Manchurian and Mongolian officers and soldiers to order them to drink, and everyone was very happy.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the [annual shift system] was established for the Mongolian princes, so that the Mongolian princes and nobles went to Beijing to celebrate the New Year's Day ceremony in shifts, and strengthened the centripetal force of the Qing court's rule; then gradually expanded to Tibet, Hui and the upper-class nobles of ethnic minorities , envoys, so that the annual class system tends to be perfect, the number and scale are beyond the past.The annual class system was an important measure to appease the ethnic groups in the Qing Dynasty. Through the way of visiting Beijing to pay homage to the holy face, it showed kindness and power and applied rule according to customs, and strengthened the contacts between the upper class of ethnic minorities and the Qing court. Consolidate the border defense, and then achieve the goal of national integration.The emperor entertained the princes, envoys and envoys of the vassal states outside Beijing with grand banquets, including the New Year's Eve banquet in the Baohe Hall, the Shangyuan Banquet in the Zhengda Guangming Hall, and the Ziguang Pavilion New Banquet, etc., so as to win over the upper class of all ethnic groups.

[Yunhui Shi] In the early Qing Dynasty, the fourth rank was the military officer in Beijing, and he belonged to the second in command of the left, right, middle, front and rear five institutes and the elephant training institute under Luan Yiwei.The envoys of Manzhou Yunhui are selected in the Manchuria Zhiyi. If they are not suitable, the third-class guards will be selected by the Wenwen Guards to make up for it; the envoys of Hanyun are selected in the Hanzhiyi.There are six specific names:

([-]) In charge of the affairs of the Yunhui envoy.The Han army consisted of six men, one from each of the left, right, middle, front, rear, and elephant taming offices, who were in charge of the affairs of each office.

(14) In charge of the envoy of Yinyun.There are [-] people in Manchuria, one of the fourteen divisions of Luanyu, Taming Horse, Qinggai, Bow and Arrow, Jingjie, Fanzhu, Fanshou, Axe, Banjian, Gehalberd, East, West, Left, and Right, which belong to the six guards , Divide the seals of each division.

([-]) Idle cloud envoys.There are six people from Manchuria, one from the left, one from the right, one from the middle, one from the front, one from the rear, and one from the six elephant taming institutes. ([-]) Driving instrument management Yunhui envoy.One person in the Han army is in charge of the order of actions and stops.

([-]) The walking chariot manages the Yunhui envoy.One of the Han soldiers was in charge of preparing the chariot.

(1801) Associate in charge of the affairs of the Seventh Office.Also known as Deputy Secretary Zhang Jing.It was set up in the sixth year of Jiaqing ([-]), and there was a shortage of two Manchurians. The six institutes and one guard were the Manchurian Yunhui envoys, who were in charge of the office of the hall and the affairs of the six institutes and one guard.