Qing · Ruler

Muzong Emperor 穆宗

Muzong

Attested AD 1861 - AD 1862

Passages: 6
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Muzong Emperor was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1862 同治元年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 390, passage 90
AD 1861 咸豐十一年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 390, passage 31

Career and standing

AD 1861 咸豐十一年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 390, passage 35

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 390, passage 31

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 390Volume 390 Biographies 177: Jia Zhen, Zhou Zupei, Zhu Fengbiao, Dan Maoqian · 6 passages

穆宗回鑾，偕大學士周祖培，尚書沈兆霖、趙光上疏曰：「我朝從無皇太后垂簾聽政之典。 When the Muzong Emperor returned to the capital, Zhen joined Grand Secretary Zhou Zupei and Ministers Shen Zhaolin and Zhao Guang in a memorial stating: "Our dynasty has never had the institution of an empress dowager ruling from behind a screen.

皇上沖齡踐阼，欽奉先帝遺命，派怡親王載垣等八人讚襄政務。 The Emperor ascended the throne while still very young and, in obedience to the late emperor's testament, appointed eight men including Prince Yi Zaiyuan to assist in government.

我皇上天亶聰明，不數年即可親政，而此數年間，外而寇難未平，內而洋人偪處，何以拯時艱？ Our Emperor is gifted with heaven's intelligence and will rule in person within a few years; yet in the interval abroad the rebels are not subdued and at home foreigners press upon us—how are we to meet the crisis of the age?

請敕下廷臣會議皇太后召見臣工禮節，及一切辦事章程，或仍循向來軍機大臣承旨舊制； We ask that Your Majesty order the court to deliberate the ceremonies by which the empress dowager receives officials and all rules of conduct—or to continue the former practice whereby Grand Council ministers receive instructions—

及穆宗奉兩宮回鑾，祖培疏言怡親王載垣等擬定「祺祥」年號，意義重複，請更正，詔嘉其關心典禮。 When the Muzong Emperor returned with the two palaces, Zuopei memorialized that Prince Yi Zaiyuan and others had proposed the reign title "Qixiang," whose meaning was redundant, and asked that it be changed; the throne praised his concern for ritual propriety.

至穆宗踐阼，底定東南，漢閣臣多取勳望，六官中大拜者鮮，惟單懋謙獨由正卿入閣，時以為榮遇焉。 When the Muzong Emperor came to the throne and the southeast was pacified, Han Chinese grand secretaries were mostly drawn from men of merit and renown; few received the highest appointments in the Six Ministries, and only Shan Maoqian entered the Grand Secretariat directly from a chief minister's post—a distinction regarded at the time as a singular honor.