State Princess Shuzhe

Princess Duanxian Chang (Gurun Duanxian Chang Gongzhu), named Shuzhe Gongzhu, was the seventh daughter of Emperor Taizong of Qing (Hong Taiji). She was born on the 16th day of the 11th month in the seventh year of the Tiancong reign (November 16, 1645), during the hour of Weijing. Her mother was Empress Xiaozhuang Wen, of the Bordered White Banner Borjigin clan, and her father was Emperor Taizong of Qing. Therefore, she was the elder sister of Emperor Fulin (Shunzhi).

Key points of her life include: On the 16th day of the second month in the sixth year of Chongde (February 16, 1645), Princess Shuzhe was betrothed to Kenge’er Geng, the son of E’qier Sang, and the betrothal ceremony was held. During a grand feast in the D Gong Hall, E’qier Sang presented camels and horses to officials from the Engel clan, below the rank of Prince Hezhuo and above the rank of Jia La Zhang Jing. In the first lunar month of the second year of Shunzhi (January 1649), the marriage of Princess Shuzhe to the son of the Inner Court Official E’qier Sang was completed, and Emperor Shunzhi personally attended the Wuying Hall to bestow a banquet for all princes and officials. In February 1648, Princess Shuzhe died at the age of only sixteen. On the 19th day of the sixth month of the 13th year of Shunzhi, Emperor Shunzhi posthumously honored her as Princess Duanxian Chang.

Regarding her burial site, Princess Duanxian Chang was buried outside An Ding Gate in Beijing, at the Sheng Gu West Village Baituan Yard. The graveyard faces south and is laid out with east-west worship halls, a stele pavilion, the Tuolung Stele, a three-room gate, and five rooms for ancestral offerings. Inside the offering hall, there is a white marble niche holding a blue-and-white porcelain vase covered with a silver lid; the hall has no top pavilion.