Noble Consort Xin

Noble Consort Xin, of the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner Daigiya clan, was a consort of the Qianlong Emperor. She was 26 years his junior.

Life

Noble Consort Xin's personal name was not recorded in history.

Father: Nasutu, served as the Minister of War from 1736 to 1737, the Minister of Justice in 1737 and 1740, the Viceroy of Liangjiang from 1737 to 1739 and from 1741 to 1742 and the Viceroy of Liangguang from 1744 to 1745
* Paternal grandfather: Daochan, served as superior censor
* Paternal great-great aunt: Consort Cheng, Kangxi Emperor's consort
Mother: Lady Janggiya
*Maternal grandfather: Derui
*Maternal great-great aunt: Imperial Noble Consort Jingmin, Kangxi Emperor's consort
Three sisters:
*First elder sister : wife of deputy governor of Jiangsu You Anning
*Second elder sister: wife of fourth rank literary official Qichengge of the Wanyan clan
*Third elder sister: wife of the secretary of the Inner Court Fulongga of the Niohuru clan.

The future Noble Consort Xin was born on the 29th day of the fifth lunar month in the second year of the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, which translates to 26 June 1737 in the Gregorian calendar.
It is not known when Lady Daigiya entered the Forbidden City and became a mistress of the Qianlong Emperor. In May or June 1754, she was granted the title "Concubine Xin". She gave birth on 24 August 1755 to the emperor's sixth daughter, who would die prematurely on 27 September 1758, and on 16 January 1758 to his eighth daughter, who would die prematurely on 17 June 1767. On 16 October 1763, she was elevated to "Consort Xin".
Lady Daigiya died in childbirth on 28 May 1764 and was posthumously elevated to "Noble Consort Xin" and given a funeral befitting a Noble Consort. In 1765, she was interred in the Yu Mausoleum of the Eastern Qing tombs.