State Princess Chunque

Princess Gûlûn Chúnquè (1685–1710), the tenth daughter of Emperor Kangxi, was born to Lady Tong, a Rongjin, daughter of Chang Subao.

Life

She was born on the sixteenth day of the second lunar month in the twenty-fourth year of Kangxi's reign (1685), during the hour of noon. Emperor Kangxi commented: "My sixth younger sister, Princess Chúnquè, naturally has a gentle and kind disposition, with a sincere and prudent heart." In the forty-fifth year of Kangxi (1706), in May, at the age of twenty-two, she was married to Galdan Targi Celeni Borji Jit, a Mongolian Kharak Targi. In the same year, in November, she was granted the title of Hereditary Princess of the First Rank (Heshou Chúnquè Gongzhu), with her Fiefdom in the Jilantai region of Inner Mongolia. On the twenty-fourth day of the third lunar month in the forty-ninth year of Kangxi (1710), Princess Chúnquè passed away at the age of twenty-six.

The Arrangements and Honors During Yongzheng's Reign

In the second year of Yongzheng (1724), Emperor Kangxi arranged for the daughter of Princess Dungke, Princess Dungke's daughter, to marry Subashili, the son of Princess Chúnquè. In addition to providing a generous dowry for her, Emperor Kangxi also incorporated the household of Princess Dungke’s attendant and the wife of Gunggela Butan, the younger brother-in-law of Princess Chúnquè, into the Mongol Banner of the Plain Yellow Banner under the Banner system, assigning it to the outermost Banner-managed units and placing it under the care of her nephew, Subashili. Furthermore, following the imperial tradition, Subashili was enfeoffed as a Support Duke (Fuguo Gong), a rank higher than a Mongolian duke.

On the eighth day of the twelfth month in the tenth year of Yongzheng (1732), Princess Chúnquè was posthumously promoted to Hereditary Princess of the First Rank (Gûlûn Chúnquè Gongzhu), also referred to as Gûlûn Chúnquè Chang Gongzhu, due to her husband's defeat in the battle against the Dzungar forces. In the fifteenth year of Qianlong (1750), before Gurngela Butan's death, he requested to be buried together with his wife outside the capital.