State Princess Duanshun

Princess Duanshun Gulu, born on April 8, 1825, and died on December 27, 1835. She was born in the twelfth hour of the Yin (Tiger) of the second lunar month in the fifth year of Daoguang’s reign (February 20, 1835). Her mother was Lady Niohuru, Imperial Noble Consort, who was later promoted to Empress. She was the third daughter and formal second daughter of Emperor Daoguang.

Regarding her life and posthumous affairs, the princess passed away on the 8th day of the eleventh month in the fifteenth year of Daoguang's reign (November 1835) at the age of eleven. Emperor Daoguang decreed her to be titled Princess Duanshun Gulu and dispatched Grand Secretary Xie’en and other officials of the Imperial Household Department to handle her funeral, all following the established procedures for a Guluon princess. The Emperor and Empress personally approved offerings on her altar and twice visited her tomb to pay respects. The funeral rites were overseen by senior officials from the court and garden administration, with personnel and rituals executed according to imperial edicts.

Regarding her burial site in the gardens, Princess Duanshun Gulu’s elder sister, Princess Duanmin Gulu, had built her own garden tomb within Eastern Qing Tombs but died early; the late emperor had not arranged for Princess Duanshun Gulu to be buried with her sister in the same garden. Instead, he insisted on establishing a separate tomb for her at Mount Dinqiaogou southeast of the Tomb of Emperor Daoguang (Muling). The tomb face the central Yi River, backed by mountains. In the sixteenth year of Daoguang (1836), an imperial decree ordered approximately 400 pine and cypress trees to be planted at her tomb; expert officials such as Wenlian, Guangliang, and Chengban oversaw the transplantation, irrigation, and maintenance according to the Lianjing regulations.

After the construction was completed, the princess was incense-offered twice during memorial visits in the eighteenth and nineteenth years of Daoguang’s reign. Currently, the tomb no longer exists. It is noted that her sister’s tomb within the Eastern Qing Tombs was of lower standard, lacking stone statues, spirit towers, or stela pavilions. The tomb’s top is brick structure without a cenotaph base.

This information is documented in historical records, specifically in the "Draft History of Qing," Volume 166, Table 6, Princesses.