Gurun Princess Shou'an Personal names of Qing princesses are not recorded. Shou'an was only a title given to her before marriage. The "Gurun" is not part of her name, but rather, it was used in titles of princesses born to the empress during the Qing Dynasty. (See

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.) (12 May 1826 – 24 March 1860) was a princess of the

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. She was born to the

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and

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Biography

Gurun Princess Shou'an was born on the sixth day of the fourth

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in the sixth year of the reign of the

. She was the fourth daughter of Daoguang and

. She had two full siblings - Gurun Princess Duanshun and Yizhu (the future

Xianfeng Emperor The Xianfeng Emperor (17 July 1831 – 22 August 1861), or by temple name Emperor Wenzong of Qing (), given name Yizhu (), was the eighth Emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the seventh Qing emperor to rule over China proper, reigned from 1850 t ...

). In 1841 she married Demchüghjab (d. 1865) of the Borjigit clan and was granted the title of Gurun Princess Shou'an. She died in the 10th year of the reign of the Xianfeng Emperor. In 1862 Demchüghjab requested permission to move his wife's coffin from

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but his request was rejected by the empress dowagers

Cixi Empress Dowager Cixi ( ; mnc, Tsysi taiheo; formerly romanised as Empress Dowager T'zu-hsi; 29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908), of the Manchu Yehe Nara clan, was a Chinese noblewoman, concubine and later regent who effectively controlled ...

and Ci'an. Demchüghjab did not remarry and died in 1865.

Ancestry

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References

*The Last Emperors "A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions", Evelyn S. Rawski. *Daily Life in the Forbidden City, Wan Yi, Wang Shuqing, Lu Yanzhen {{DEFAULTSORT:Shouan, Kurun Princess 1826 births 1860 deaths Qing dynasty princesses Manchu people People from Beijing Daughters of emperors