1. The Jiaqing Emperor, known by his temple name Emperor Renzong of Qing, personal name Yongyan, was the seventh emperor of the Qing dynasty and the fifth Qing emperor to rule over China proper.
19 Facts About Jiaqing Emperor
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Jiaqing Emperor was the 15th son of the Qianlong Emperor.
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Jiaqing Emperor's mother was Noble Consort Ling, the daughter of Wei Qingtai, an ethnic Han Chinese official whose family had been long integrated into the Manchu Eight Banners as part of a Han Banner.
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In 1789, the Qianlong Jiaqing Emperor instated Yongyan as "Prince Jia of the First Rank".
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Jiaqing Emperor made this decision because he felt that it was disrespectful for him to rule longer than his grandfather, the Kangxi Emperor, who was on the throne for 61 years.
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Heshen's daughter-in-law, Princess Hexiao, a half-sister of the Jiaqing Emperor, was spared from punishment and given a few properties from Heshen's estates.
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The Jiaqing Emperor commuted the death sentence of the scholar Hong Liangji who had criticised the policies of the Qianlong Emperor and Heshen, instead exiling him to a remote part of northern China and pardoning him altogether in 1800.
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Heshen was described as the 'primary evil' effecting the Empire, and after his removal the Jiaqing Emperor pursued a series of reforms of the court, civil service and treasury.
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Jiaqing Emperor was a traditionalist in terms of his role as an ethnic Manchu leader, taking parts in imperial hunts, inspection tours, and upholding strict court protocol.
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The Jiaqing Emperor engaged in the pacification of the empire and the quelling of rebellions, although this came at a steep fiscal cost.
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Jiaqing Emperor endeavored to bring China back to its 18th-century prosperity and power.
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In 1813, the Jiaqing Emperor faced the threat of the Eight Trigrams uprising, led by a millenarian Buddhist sect that launched a failed attack on the Forbidden City, with the intention of assassinating the Emperor upon his return from a hunting trip.
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The Jiaqing Emperor was intrigued by the leader of the rising, Lin Qing, and summoned him to a private interrogation.
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The Jiaqing Emperor refused the Vietnamese ruler Gia Long's request to change his country's name to Nam Viet, but agreed that it could be changed to Viet Nam instead.
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The Jiaqing Emperor granted the title Wujing Boshi to the descendants of Tang essayist Han Yu.
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The Jiaqing Emperor commissioned printed compendia of courtly collections, which are an important source for our present understanding of Qing court art.
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Jiaqing Emperor was a keen scholar of the Confucian classics, with 15,267 poems attributed to him.
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Jiaqing Emperor was succeeded by his second son, Mianning, who became known as the Daoguang Emperor.
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In 1644, the Shunzhi Jiaqing Emperor began to rule over China proper, replacing the Ming dynasty.