Jin Fei lived in Yonghe Palace after entering the palace until her death in the Republic of China 13. Princess Jin was loyal and obedient all her life, detached from the world, loyal and blessed, and was called the "fat queen" in the palace. As the harem of Emperor Guangxu, Jin Fei, like Yulong, exists in name only; However, she has a deep friendship with her sister Zhen Fei, and she can handle it safely with the title of Zhen Fei.
Both sisters love reading and A Dream of Red Mansions. They once invited painters to Changchun Palace to paint murals of the Red Chamber.
When Zhen Fei was demoted as a noble because she offended Cixi, Jin Fei was also implicated and demoted as a noble, and her reputation was restored in the winter of that year. The difference is that Jin Fei has not lost his freedom.
After Xuan Tong acceded to the throne, Jinfei and three other Tongzhi widows were honored as toffee, and her emblem was Duankang Taifei, who continued to live in Yonghe Palace.
After Puyi abdicated, Yulong died the following year, and Jinfei's position in the small court was promoted. She is the youngest of the four toffee, and she is more open-minded.
When Puyi proposed marriage, she supported Puyi to marry Wanrong.
Jin Fei and her sister Zhen Fei both love Dan Qing very much and are also very particular about their taste in life. The paintings and calligraphy made by Jin Fei in her later years still exist.
She is also a gourmet, and the cooking at the Lama Temple is excellent. All the princes and ministers love her dishes, and she often sends people to Tianfu to buy sauced elbows for breakfast.
Jin Fei also likes to collect all kinds of craft clocks. The bonsai placed on several cases in the East-West Annex Hall of Yonghe Palace are all inlaid with refined copper watches, and there are also flowers and birds in the clock.
Tomb robbery mystery
Thirty years after Zhen Fei's death, a grave robbery happened in the Princess Garden in chongling where she was buried.
1938165438+1At the beginning of October, there was a village called Huabei Village near Qingxiling, Yixian County, Hebei Province. There is a man named Chen Shi in the village. He conspired with Guan Youren in the same village to rob a tomb. They found several experienced grave robbers respectively. Eight people were gathered, several guns were found, more than 20 bullets were collected, and tools for digging bricks such as picks, shovels, axes, hand saws and steel poles were prepared to rob the tomb of Emperor Guangxu.
Emperor Guangxu always had two concubines. His concubine's tomb is called Princess chongling Garden. In the garden bed, there are two graves, where Jin Fei and Zhen Fei are buried respectively. Chen Shi led the bandits into the cemetery. The gangsters used explosives, fired three shots and blew a hole in the underground palace. Then the robbers cut a hole in the coffin with an axe. "Jane's body in the coffin has not rotted into a pile of skeletons. I saw her wearing a crown, a royal costume, jade in her hand, and a kit hanging around her waist, surrounded by wishful thinking. The flesh on the face is still there, and the five senses are faintly discernible, especially those eyes that are half closed and slightly open. According to superstition, they died of injustice and dissatisfaction. "
This passage is a description of the scene when Zhen Fei's tomb was stolen in the article "Tomb of the Night Thief", a collection of literature and history materials of Hebei Provincial Political Consultative Conference. There is also a passage in the article about the time when Empress Dowager Cixi sent someone to salvage Zhen Fei's body after she returned to Beijing from xi 'an in 190 1:
"190 1 year1kloc-0/month, Cixi and others returned to Beijing from xi 'an. In order to hide people's eyes and ears, they claimed that Zhen Fei threw herself into the well to avoid being insulted by foreigners, rehabilitated Zhen Fei, and canonized Zhen Fei as an imperial concubine. Cixi also ordered Zhen Fei's family to salvage Zhen Fei's body. Zhen Fei's body has been in the well for more than a year and a half, and the wellhead is too small to be fished out. Empress Dowager Cixi was furious and asked the whole family to condemn her. Zhikun (Zhen Fei's younger brother) was scared out of her wits. She hurriedly put on the incense table, burned incense and kowtowed, begging her sister for mercy and saving the whole family's life. As a result, it took a lot of effort to get the body out, which was terrible. Yan Zhi straightened her sister's crooked leg with tears in her eyes, and then hastily buried her in Waitian Village, Xizhimen, Beijing. "
There are many contradictions in the article "The Tomb of the Stolen Princess Zhen". One and a half years after Zhen Fei's death, the body was salvaged from the well, which was terrible. However, when I was robbing a tomb 37 years later, my face was still alive and my five senses were faintly discernible. Incredibly, this is the same person. The author thinks that what the grave robbers saw should be the real scene, so it can be judged that what they saw during the grave robbery should be Jin Fei instead of Zhen Fei.