Zhu Jixuan

King Qingcheng Hui Zhu Jixuan (February 4, 1385 – December 26, 1429), was the first King of Qingcheng in the Ming Dynasty and the fourth illegitimate son of King Jinggong Zhu Lu. He was born in the Dingsi year of the 17th year of Hongwu (December 1384), and after the Ming Emperor Taizu held sacrificial rites in Nanjing, he was given his name and conferred the title of king with the characters "Qingcheng," making him the first Ming monarch to be named a king not by place name.

In October of the 35th year of Hongwu (1402), Zhu Jixuan began to pay court visits to Ming Chengzu. He repeatedly traveled to Nanjing and was granted the title of King Qingcheng. Later, he was relocated successively to Lu Prefecture, Puzhou, and Fenzhou. In the second year of the Yongle reign (1412), he made his second court visit to the capital and later moved to Fenzhou, where all subsequent Kings Qingcheng resided.

His wife, Lady Tang, was the granddaughter of Minister of War Tang Tuo. She was granted the rank of consort in the first year of the Yongle reign. His children included his eldest son Zhu Mei'an (King Gongxi of Qingcheng) and his second son Zhu Meiyuan, along with many other sons and grandsons, who received titles such as Fuguo and Fengguo.

Zhu Jixuan died on the first day of the twelfth month of the 4th year of Xuande (December 1429), at the age of 46, with the posthumous name Zhuanghui. His tomb is located at Hudi Mountain in Xiaoyi, Shanxi, and currently exists within the Shadow Puppet Art Museum of Xiaoyi City.