Consort Ji, Of The Fuca Clan

Gundai Fujin, of Manchu descent from the Fucha clan, given name Gundai (also written as Gundai), Manchu script: gundai fujin; born in the 16th century, died around 1620. She was the daughter of Mangsedu Zhu Hu. Historical records often refer to her as "Jifei" or "Qing Taizu Jifei," as a consort remarried to Nurhaci, and later also called "Jifei" in her later years.

Regarding her life, relevant accounts state that Gundai's former husband was Weizhun, a relative of Nurhaci. In the 13th and 14th years of Wanli (1585–1586), she remarried Nurhaci through a marriage alliance. She had three children with her first husband: Alam Tai Zhu (born 1583), Chongshan (1584–1613), and Angara (executed in 1635). After remarrying Nurhaci, Gundai bore him three sons and one daughter: the fifth son, Mangguertai, born in 1587; the third daughter, Mangguji, born in 1590; and the tenth son, Degilei, born in 1597. Detailed records about her after that are scarce.

Concerning her family and status, there is an unconfirmed suggestion that she may have had a sister in the Fucha clan who married Weizhun’s younger brother, Wangshan, but no definitive evidence supports this.

As for her death and burial, accounts regarding the timing vary. The Draft History of Qing records that Gundai died in the fifth year of the Tianming era (1620) and was buried at Hetu Ala. The Xingyuan Jiqing also reports that she died in February of the fifth year of Tianming and was buried at Hetu Ala. Tang Bangzhi’s "History of the Qing Imperial Family Four Records" states that her cause of death was related to Mangguertai murdering his mother, mentioning that she was disposed of in February of Tianming for secretly hiding gold and silk, after which Mangguertai murdered her. Scholars differ on the specifics of these events; some believe that the "Great Fujin" involved was not Gundai, and that Gundai had already died at Hetu Ala around 1619 or earlier.

After the Later Jin empire moved its capital to Liaoyang, in the ninth year of Tianming (1624), her ancestors’ tomb, Yongling, was relocated to Tokyo Ling; her coffin along with her children’s was moved too. In the second month of the third year of Tianscong (1629), Emperor Taiji ordered her mother, the Fujin Menggu Zhezhezi Palace, to be buried together with Nurhaci, and Gundai’s coffin was also interred in Fuling in the same month. During the Shunzhi era, in the first year of Shunzhi (1644), due to her prior offenses against Taizu, Gundai was reburied outside the Fuling; folklore suggests her tomb is at the “Nai Ma Tomb.” These accounts lack a unified conclusion regarding her precise burial site.