Imperial Noble Consort Jingmin Explained

Imperial Noble Consort Jingmin (敬敏皇贵妃; ? – 20 August 1699), of the Manchu Bordered White Banner Janggiya clan, was a concubine of the Kangxi Emperor.

Imperial Noble Consort Jingmin
敬敏皇貴妃
Death Date:20 August 1699
康熙三十八年七月二十五日
Death Place:Forbidden City, Beijing
Burial Place:Jing Mausoleum, Eastern Qing tombs
Spouse:Kangxi Emperor
Issue:
  • Yinxiang
  • Princess Wenke of the Second Rank
  • Princess Dunke of the Second Rank
Posthumous Name:Imperial Noble Consort Jingmin
(Chinese: 敬敏皇貴妃)
House:Janggiya (Chinese: 章佳氏; by birth)
Aisin-Gioro (by marriage)
Father:Haikuan

Life

Family background

Imperial Noble Consort Jingmin's personal name was not recorded in history. Her family belong to the Bordered White Banner.

Kangxi Era

It is unclear when Imperial Noble Consort Jingmin was born or when she entered the palace. But on the first day of October in the twenty-fifth year of Kangxi (1686), she gave birth to the thirteenth prince Yinxiang. On November 27 in the twenty-sixth year of Kangxi, she gave birth to Princess Wenke of the Second Rank (和碩溫恪公主). And on the thirtieth year of Kangxi, she gave birth to her last child, Princess Dunke of the Second Rank (和碩敦恪公主).

In the thirty-eighth year of Kangxi, Concubine Min died in Wulong Pavilion in Beihai. In July of that year, the Kangxi Emperor instructed the Minister of Rites to promote Concubine Min to Consort Min (敏妃) posthumously. In September of the same year, Kangxi's third son Yunzhi was demoted to beile for not attending the funeral for Consort Min.

Records show that Consort Min died during the thirty-eighth year of Kangxi and was temporarily buried in the gazed flower gate in the Emperor's mausoleum. The reason for this arrangement is unknown.

On the twenty-sixth of the first month of the first year of Yongzheng, the Yongzheng Emperor instructed the Ministry of Rites to posthumously appoint Consort Min as Imperial Noble Consort Huangkao (皇考皇贵妃). On June 20, her posthumous title was changed to Imperial Noble Consort Jingmin (敬敏皇贵妃). On the first day of September, Imperial Noble Consort Jingmin along with the Kangxi Emperor and Empress Xiaogongren were buried in the Jing Mausoleum in Zunhua City, Hebei Province.

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