Yongrong | |
Prince Zhi of the First Rank (和碩質親王) | |
Succession: | Head of the House of Prince Shen peerage |
Predecessor: | Yunxi |
Successor: | Mianqing |
Reign: | 1789–1790 |
Reign-Type: | Tenure |
Birth Date: | 28 January 1744 |
Father: | Qianlong Emperor |
Mother: | Imperial Noble Consort Chunhui |
Spouse: | Lady Fuca Lady Niohuru |
Spouse-Type: | Consorts |
Issue: | Miancong Mianqing, Prince Zhike of the Second Rank Princess of the Fourth Rank |
House: | Aisin Gioro |
Full Name: | Aisin Gioro Yongrong (愛新覺羅·永瑢) |
Posthumous Name: | Prince Zhizhuang of the First Rank (質莊親王) |
C: | 永瑢 |
P: | Yǒngróng |
W: | Yung-jung |
Yongrong (28 January 1744 – 13 June 1790) was a Manchu prince and calligrapher of the Qing dynasty in China. He was born in the Aisin Gioro clan as the sixth son of the Qianlong Emperor; his mother was Imperial Noble Consort Chunhui.
In 1759, he was adopted into the lineage of his granduncle Yunxi (允禧; 1711–1758) as Yunxi's grandson, because Yunxi had no son to inherit his Prince Shen peerage. Yongrong was made a beile in the same year. In 1772, he was promoted to junwang (second-rank prince) as "Prince Zhi of the Second Rank" (質郡王). In 1789, he was further promoted to qinwang (first-rank prince), as "Prince Zhi of the First Rank" (質親王). He died in 1790 and was posthumously honoured as "Prince Zhizhuang of the First Rank" (質莊親王).
He was succeeded by his fifth son, Mianqing.
Yongrong is best known for his work as a general editor of the Siku Quanshu, and for his calligraphy in the manuscript Twenty-One Hymns to the Rescuer Mother of Buddhas . He was also a poet and painter of Chinese paintings with landscape painting as his focus, with knowledge of astronomy and mathematics.[1]
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