The emperor Shunzhi (順治), born Aixinjuelo Fulin in 1638 and died in 1661, was the son of Huang-Taiji, 2nd emperor Mandchou of the dynasty Qing which occupied the China then North. He was 1st dynasty to be gone up on the imperial throne to Beijing, with the prohibited Cité. He was emperor of China of the North of 1643 at 1644, then of both China of 1644 at 1661. Gone up on the throne at 5 years, it undergoes a long time the regency of princes Mandchous of his family, Dorgon and Jirgalang. He did not like particularly the first, a maternal uncle, that he stripped of his title like his brother after his death in 1650. Eager to be located in Chinese imperial continuity, it made teach the Chinese with his children and tried to encourage the participation of the Han in the government. For one period, it had to advise the Jesuit German Johann Adam Schall von Bell (湯若望). It had chosen four regents for its sons. One of them, Oboi, was a knight who had saved it whereas of 1643 to 1644 it fought the last troops faithful to the Ming. The emperor showed him his recognition by appointing it hero and regent at the sides of Sonin, Suksana and Ebilun.

Shunzhi and Buddhism

Official annals attest that Shunzhi had expressed young person interest for Buddhism. It is claimed that a meeting with a famous Master, Han Pocong (憨璞聰), had taken place with the temple Haihuisi (海會寺) in hiding-place of the empress douairiaire Xiaozhuang when the emperor was 20 years old. Sign of an introspective personality, it left an unusual will containing a list of 24 faults which it reproached.

In a way much more official, in 1649, Shunzhi invited the 5th Dalaï Lama Lobsang Gyatso with Beijing. When it reaches the Chinese province of Ningxia, it was greeted by the Minister and military commander of the Emperor who came with 3000 riders to escort the leader Tibetan. The Shunzhi Emperor even went on to him a journey 4 days traversing 20 km since Beijing to come to the meeting from the Dalaï Lama in a place called Kothor or Chenlou . In the Chinese capital, the Dalaï Lama remained with the Yellow Palate, builds for him by the Emperor. When the Emperor met the Dalaï Lama officially, the two leaders exchanged honorary titles. In 1653, the Dalaï Lama is turned over to the Tibet.

Caption surrounding its death

Shunzhi is the hero of a romantic history surrounding the mystery of its death, which has occurred in 1661. This one is indeed, contrary to the practice, reported in a brief way (11 characters) in its official biography, and the reason is not indicated by it. Not very front, in 1660, had died a concubine (name of palate: Dong Guifei 董貴妃) of which it was enthusiast; the emperor was then 22 years old. The noise ran that Shunzhi had decided with died on Dong Guifei to pretend its own death to withdraw itself in a monastery of the mount Wutai. Imaginations were particularly ignited by the work of the poet Wu Meicun (吳梅村) ﹐ Louange with the Buddha of the Mount of freshness (清涼山讚佛詩). " Mount of fraicheur" is an allusion to the Wutai mount; in this poem, whose topic are the regrets of an emperor for a woman, one finds the sentence: “Poor grass of thousand lilies, faded and without color” (可憐千里草 ﹐ 萎落無顏色). However grass (艹) thousand (千) and Li (里) are the elements which compose the name of favorite (Dong 董). This one was in addition confused in popular imagination with a famous beauty of the south of China, Dong Xiaowan (董小宛), and with the mother of the emperor Kangxi, another concubine named Tong (佟). The various Buddhist schools were not deprived to relay the rumor of the emperor-monk. The attentive study of the files of the Manchu dynasty since highlighted the legendary aspect of this history. The Shunzhi emperor is doubtless deceased of the Variole which it had contracted; its disease is indeed, in the absence of the reason of its death, mentioned in annals. Its burial is among the Tombs of Qing - Is (Qingdongling 清東陵) in the necropolis of Xiaoling (孝陵).

Simple: Shunzhi Emperor

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