Fuheng Explained

Honorific Prefix:First Class Duke Zhongyong
Fuheng
Office:Chief Grand Councillor
Term Start:1748
Term End:1770
Predecessor:Necin
Successor:Yengišan
Office1:Grand Councillor
Term Start1:1745
Term End1:1770
Office2:Grand Secretary of the Baohe Hall
Term Start2:1748
Term End2:1770
Office3:Assistant Grand Secretary
Term Start3:1748
Term End3:1748
Office4:Minister of Revenue
Term Start4:1747
Term End4:1748
Alongside4:Liang Shizheng
Predecessor4:Haiwang
Successor4:Yengišan
Birth Date:1720
Death Date:July 1770
Death Place:Beijing, China
Relations:Empress Xiaoxianchun (sister)
Yonglian (nephew)
Gurun Princess Hejing (niece)
Yongcong (nephew)
Mingliang (nephew)
Mingrui (nephew)
Children:Fuk'anggan (son)
Fulong'an (second son)
Blank1:Clan name
Data1:Fuca
Blank2:Courtesy name
Data2:Chunhe (春和)
Blank3:Posthumous name
Data3:Wenzhong (文忠)
Allegiance:Qing dynasty
Branch:Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner
Serviceyears:1740–1770
Rank:General
Commands:Burma Campaign (1768–1769)
Battles:First Campaign Against Jinchuan (1747–1749)
Dzungar–Qing War (1755–1757)
Sino-Burmese War (1768–1769)

Fuheng (; ; Burmese: ဖူဟင်း; 1720 – July 1770), courtesy name Chunhe (春和), was a Qing dynasty official from the Manchu Fuca clan and the Bordered Yellow Banner of the Eight Banners,[1] and was a younger brother of the Empress Xiaoxianchun. He served as a senior minister at the court of his brother-in-law, the Qianlong Emperor from the 1750s to his death in 1770. He is best known for leading the Qing troops in the fourth and last invasion of Burma in the Sino-Burmese War (1765–1769).

Prior to his appointment as the commander-in-chief of the Burma campaign, Fuheng was chief grand councilor to the emperor, and one of the emperor's most trusted advisers. Fuheng was one of the few senior officials that fully backed the Qianlong Emperor's decision to eliminate the Dzungars in the 1750s when most at the court thought war was too risky. His nephew Mingrui was a son-in-law of the emperor, and led the Burma campaign of 1767–1768.[2] His son Fuk'anggan was a senior general in the Qing military.

Fuheng was unsuccessful in the Burma campaign. In December 1769, he signed a truce with the Burmese, which the emperor did not accept. He died of malaria, which he contracted during his three-month invasion of Burma, when he got back to Beijing.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Fu-hêng.
  2. Book: The River of Lost Footsteps--Histories of Burma . Thant Myint-U . 2006 . Farrar, Straus and Giroux . 978-0-374-16342-6 . 103–104.
  3. Book: Charles Patterson Giersch . Asian borderlands: the transformation of Qing China's Yunnan frontier . Harvard University Press . 0674021711. 100–110 . 2006.
  4. First elder sister of Consort Shu
  5. married Qianlong Emperor's fourth daughter