What does grandma Huang mean?

Grandma and Ernian are both Manchu, which means father and mother respectively. If the father is an emperor, it is called "Khan Ama", and then it is called Emperor Ama. If the mother is a queen, she can be called Queen Ernie.

Empress Huang is her mother's Manchu name, a transliteration of Manchu eniye. In Manchu, mother's pen name is eme and her oral name is eniye. Pronunciation is similar to "Ernie" When writing Chinese, considering the significance of being close to Chinese, I will write "Ernie".

In the memorials or official documents in the early and middle Qing Dynasty, whether in Chinese or not, it was called "Khan Ama". Or "the emperor's father". The so-called "Ama Emperor" is the title after the late Qing Dynasty was sinicized, which is found in Puyi's autobiography My First Half of Life.

Video misleading:

1, the movie "The Emperor's Daughter" is misleading, because Manchu is an appositive word and the mother can't be the emperor, so there can be "Khan Ama" (mistakenly called the emperor Ama in the movie), but there will never be an emperor's daughter.

2. According to Jin Qicong's Talk about Manchu in Beijing, as a mother, Manchu is called Enniye. Luxury houses and aristocratic families are falsely called "E Niang". Manchu people learn Chinese appellation and call their mother "grandma". Han people call "grandma" grandma, while Manchu people call their mothers grandma. "Grandma" and "E Niang" cannot be used at the same time. Later, the first mother was called "grandma", and the common mother was called "E Niang".