| Ronglu | |
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| Spouse | Wanzhen(concubine)[1] |
| Issue | |
| one son Youlan, 2nd Princess Chun |
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| Born | 6 April 1836 |
| Died | 11 April 1903 (aged 67) |
Ronglu (Chinese: 荣禄; Wade-Giles: Jung-lu; 6 April 1836 – 11 April 1903) was a Manchu statesman and general during the late Qing dynasty. Born into the powerful Guwalgiya clan of the Plain White Banner in the Eight Banners, he was cousin to Yehenara Lan, who later became the notorious Empress Dowager Cixi[2]. He served in a number of important positions in the Qing government, including the Zongli Yamen and the Grand Council, and jokingly told Cixi that he would be her bodyguard if she became Empress when they were children[3].
During Cixi's tenure as regent of the Qing Dynasty, Ronglu became one of the leaders of Cixi's conservative faction at the imperial court, and opposed opposed Kang Youwei's Hundred Days' Reform in 1898. Cixi always remembered her cousin's support for her, even when they were young, and rewarded him by allowing his only surviving child, his daughter Youlan to marry into the imperial clan.
Through his daughter's marriage to Zaifeng, 2nd Prince Chun, Ronglu is the maternal grandfather of Zaifeng's two sons, one of whom ascended the throne as the Xuantong Emperor.
References
- Hummel, Arthur William, ed. Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644-1912). 2 vols. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1943.
- ^ Initially Ronglu's concubine, she became his official wife when Ronglu's first wife died.
- ^ Woo, X.L. Empress Dowager Cixi: China's Last Dynasty and The Long Reign of a Formidable Concubine. p. 17
- ^ Woo, X.L. Empress Dowager Cixi: China's Last Dynasty and The Long Reign of a Formidable Concubine. p. 17
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