Changting's birth mother was Consort Liu, the late Emperor Kangxi. She was born in the 37th year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign, and was the 36th daughter of the Kangxi Emperor. She was the 33rd Princess and had a younger sister born to Empress Xiaoshu.
Because her birth mother held a low rank during the Kangxi Emperor's reign, merely a minor concubine, Liu was not promoted after Kangxi abdicated. It wasn't until the tenth year of the Yonghe Emperor's reign that she was honored as a Noble Lady of the Imperial Father.
Therefore, Changting fell out of favor and suffered cold treatment in the palace.
In the fifth year of the Yonghe reign, Changting and her sister, Princess Heke, who was the same age, had their husbands chosen by their elder brother, the Yonghe Emperor, and his sister-in-law, Ulanara.
Changting knew that her birth mother came from a humble background and that she would either be sent to a political marriage or marry into an ordinary family.
Changting didn't have high hopes for the choice of the imperial son-in-law; as long as it wasn't too outrageous, that would be fine!
After much deliberation, the imperial son-in-law was chosen from the Tongjia clan.
The Tongjia clan, the maternal family of the then-Empress Dowager Que, was a source of great surprise for Changting, who found it hard to believe.
It wasn't until the imperial edict was issued and Changting was also granted the title of Princess Heshuo Minjing that Changting finally realized it was true.
The following year, Princess Minjing married into the Tong family.
Because of her cautious and timid life in the palace since childhood, Princess Minjing was more gentle and compliant than other princesses, and was also better at reading people's expressions.
Although Princess Minjing was somewhat unfit for public display, the Tongjia clan did not care.
According to the "Records of Princesses' Residences" in the "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty", Princess Heshuo Minjing was filial to her parents-in-law, devoted to serving her husband, virtuous and kind, a good wife and mother, and gave birth to six sons and one daughter. She lived to the age of fifty-four.
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