Why are some princesses of the Ming Dynasty called county lords?

According to the biography of the princess in the history of the Ming Dynasty, "in the Ming system, the imperial aunt is called the eldest princess, the imperial sister is called the eldest princess, and the princess is called the princess.

Shi, the son-in-law is called the captain of the horse. The prince's daughter is called the county lord, the county king's daughter is the county lord, the granddaughter is the county lord, the great-granddaughter is the county king, the great-granddaughter is the township king, and the son-in-law is all Yibin. The county lord Lu has 800 stones, and the remainder decreases poorly. ”

That is to say, the emperor's daughter is a princess, her sister is the eldest princess, and the prince's daughter is the county lord, but why did the Ming Dynasty have three emperors' sisters and one emperor's daughter called the county lord?

There are some special reasons for this!

The royal sisters who are known as the county lords are the county lords of Jiangdu, the county lords of Yilun and the county lords of Nanping. They are all the younger sisters of Emperor Jianwen, and they are all princesses in the Jianwen Dynasty, and they were maliciously demoted to the county lord by Ming Chengzu Zhu Di after the Battle of Jingjing. Ming Chengzu did not recognize the emperor's identity of his nephew Emperor Jianwen, and the three sisters suddenly changed from the imperial sister to the imperial niece, so they were naturally the county lords!

Jiang Du died of excessive sorrow when he was demoted to the county lord!

Princess Gu'an, the daughter of Emperor Ming Jing. After the restoration of Yingzong in January 1457, Emperor Jing was deposed as the king of Yu, and Gu'an was also demoted to the county lord.

In general: princess:

The title of the daughter of an emperor or prince. Zhou was called Wang Ji, and the Warring States was called the princess. When the Son of Heaven marries a woman to the princes, he will make the princes have the same surname, so he is called a princess.

The lord of the county is the princess of the county. Jin Shi Zhi. The daughter of the prince of the Tang dynasty is the lord of the county. The Song Dynasty followed the Tang system, and the daughter of the clan also had to be crowned the lord of the county. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the daughter of the prince was the county lord, and the county prince was named the county lord.

First, the time of appearance is different.

1. County Lord: The county lord began in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

2. Princess: The princess appeared in the Western Zhou Dynasty, when Zhou Tianzi married his daughter to the princes, he did not personally preside over the wedding, and let the princes who were also surnamed Ji officiate the marriage, which is the origin of "princess".

Second, the identity is different.

1. County Lord: It is the title of the royal family women in ancient Chinese feudal society, when the princess was named the princess, and the county was the fiefdom, so it was called the county princess or the county lord for short. After the changes of the times, the county lord has different identities such as the emperor's daughter, the crown prince's daughter, the prince's daughter, the emperor's concubine, and the prince's daughter.

2. Princess: It is the title of the princess, the princess, and the daughter of the emperor in ancient China, and in China, the earliest Zhou Dynasty called the daughter of Zhou Tianzi Wang Ji. The name princess began during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It is often the title of the princess, and only under special circumstances can the daughter of the sect be promoted to the title of princess.

For example, the adopted daughter of the emperor and the queen mother may also be named a princess or a county lord; This has nothing to do with blood, and the specific identity depends on the emperor's wishes. Like Kong Sizhen, the adopted daughter of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang during the Qing Dynasty, she was named Princess Heshuo.

Kong Sizhen is the only daughter of Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, and the only Han princess in the Qing Dynasty, who has no blood relationship with the royal family.

Generally speaking, the emperor's daughter is called a princess, but in some dynasties, the daughter of the prince is also called a princess, for example, the Yuan Dynasty [county lord] is the abbreviation of the county princess, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Sui and other dynasties is the highest rank of the princess, in the Tang Dynasty, the county lord is the special name of the daughter of the crown prince, after the Tang Dynasty, the county lord refers to the daughter of the prince, in the Qing Dynasty, the county lord refers to the daughter of the highest-ranking prince [county lord] is the abbreviation of the county princess, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wei and Jin Dynasties, Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui and other dynasties were princesses lower than the rank of the county lord, and then there was no such title, and later the Jurchens established Jin, the county princess refers to the emperor's daughter, and the county lord refers to the prince's daughter [Gege] Manchu unique title, which is the general name of the prince's daughter.

The princess is a direct blood relative of the royal family, and the father or brother must be the emperor; The lord of the county is a collateral line, more distant in blood, usually the daughter of the prince.

The county lord is a relative of the emperor, and the princess is the emperor's biological daughter.

The county lord and the princess are not the same, and the county lord is the daughter of the general state county king. Princesses are generally the daughters of kings.