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| Tenure | 1675 - 1708 (First term) 1709 - 1712 (Second term) | ||||||||
| Born | Aisin Gioro Baocheng (愛新覺羅·保成) (1674-06-06)6 June 1674 Beijing,China | ||||||||
| Died | 27 January 1725(1725-01-27) (aged 50) Beijing,China | ||||||||
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| Issue | Hongxi,Prince Li of the First Rank Hongjin Hongyan Hongtiao Hongyao Hongwei,Prince Li of the Second Rank Hongbing Hongwan Princess of the Third Rank Princess Shushen of the Second Rank Princess of the Third Rank Princess of the Fourth Rank Princess of the Third Rank | ||||||||
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| House | Aisin Gioro | ||||||||
| Father | Kangxi Emperor | ||||||||
| Mother | Empress Xiaochengren | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 允礽 | ||||||
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| Chinese | 胤礽 | ||||||
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Yunreng (6 June 1674 – 27 January 1725), bornYinreng, was aManchu prince of theQing dynasty. He was the second among theKangxi Emperor's sons to survive into adulthood and was designated asCrown Prince for two terms between 1675 and 1712 before being deposed. He was posthumously honoured asPrince Limi of the First Rank.
Yunreng was born of theManchuAisin Gioro clan as the seventh son of theKangxi Emperor, but was the second among the emperor's sons to survive into adulthood. He was given the infant name "Baocheng" (保成), and was renamed "Yinreng" when he became older. His mother was the Kangxi Emperor's first empress,Empress Xiaochengren from theHešeri clan, who was also a granddaughter ofSonin (one of thefour regents in the Kangxi Emperor's early reign). She died not long after giving birth to Yinreng, and was greatly lamented by the Kangxi Emperor.
The Kangxi Emperor personally taught Yinreng to read and he proclaimed Yinreng as hisCrown Prince when Yinreng was only a year old. Under the tutelage of several scholar-officials, Yinreng became well-versed in theChinese andManchu languages. Between 1696 and 1697, when the Kangxi Emperor was away twice on military campaigns againstGaldan Khan of theZunghar Khanate, Yinreng was appointed as regent to supervise affairs in the imperial capital,Beijing. Despite scandals and accusations of immorality, Yinreng remained in his father's favour and was given the Western Gardens (西花園) of Beijing as his residence.
In 1703, Yinreng's granduncleSonggotu was found guilty of attempting to murder the Kangxi Emperor, along with a series of corruption charges, and was imprisoned and died shortly afterwards. Yinreng gradually fell out of his father's favour as a result. In 1708, during a hunting expedition inRehe, the Kangxi Emperor accused Yinreng of immorality, sexual impropriety, usurping power, and treason. Yinreng was stripped of his position as Crown Prince and imprisoned. When it was later discovered that the First PrinceYinzhi had employedlamas to cast evil spells on Yinreng, the Kangxi Emperor pardoned Yinreng in 1709 and restored him as Crown Prince. In the following three years, Yinreng's condition deteriorated and the Kangxi Emperor became convinced that Yinreng was insane. Consequently, in 1712, Yinreng was deposed again and placed in perpetual confinement.
In 1722, the Kangxi Emperor died and was succeeded by his fourth son Yinzhen, who became historically known as theYongzheng Emperor. Yinreng changed his name to Yunreng to avoidnaming taboo because the Chinese character for "Yin" (胤) in "Yinreng" is the same as the one in the Yongzheng Emperor's personal name "Yinzhen" (胤禛). Yunreng died three years later in 1725 while still being incarcerated. He was granted the posthumous title of "Prince Limi of the First Rank" (和碩理密親王).
The bitter factionalism between the Kangxi Emperor's sons and the dispute over the succession prompted the Yongzheng Emperor to establish a practice of writing a secret imperial edict on who would succeed to the throne, and sealing the edict in a box behind a tablet in thePalace of Heavenly Purity in theForbidden City. The edict would only be publicly revealed upon the death of the reigning emperor.
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