胤祿 Yìnlù

Yunlu

Yunlu was skilled in mathematics and versed in musical pitches. He received instruction from Shengzu and took part in compiling the Shuli jingyun (Essence of Mathematical Principles). In the first year of Qianlong he was ordered to take general charge of affairs and concurrently to administer the Ministry of Works, with a double stipend as prince of the First Rank. In the second year [...] general charge [...] labour, he was given the further title of Duke Who Guards the State, and Yunlu asked that Ninghe, a grandson of Shuosai, inherit it. Soon afterwards he was found guilty of an offence and stripped of his rank, but was still generously given a share of fields and houses, and contemporary opinion praised this. In the fourth year, because of secret and furtive dealings with Hong[...], son of Yunreng, his double stipend was stopped and he was removed from the post of Lieutenant-General. In the seventh year he was ordered, with Santai and Zhang Zhao, to administer the Music Office. Yunlu and others memorialised: "At the end of the rite of ploughing the sacred field, at the banquet the three pieces 'Rain and Sun in Season', 'Abundant Harvest of the Five Grains' and 'Every Household Sufficient in Season' should be played. These were originally composed by Jiang Tingxi; the music does not accord with the rite and cannot be used for banquet music. We ask that an order be given for another composition." They further memorialised: "In the Zhonghe Shaoyue ensemble, by the rule, four sheng mouth-organs are used, above the xiao and flute instruments. We ask that the sheng be increased to eight and the xiao and flutes to four." They further memorialised: "In the treatises on music in the histories from the Han onward, [...] are all two, and the two sounds of metal and of leather alone stand out, and each has bo bells and single chime-stones. We have now obtained an ancient bo bell from Xijiang, examined and fixed the straight measure of the Huangzhong pitch, adjusted it up and down by increase and decrease, and cast twelve bo bells. We humbly consider that the order should be complete from beginning to end, and ask that, following the method left by the Qing Shi [chime-stone maker] of the Rites of Zhou, twelve single chime-stones be made, to be hung with the bo bells as single sets. When the music ends the single chime-stones are struck and then the yu is sounded; at great sacrifices and great ceremonies the bo bell and single chime-stone corresponding to the pitch of the month are in each case set up, one [each]." The emperor accepted all of this. In the twenty-ninth year, when Yunlu reached seventy, the emperor granted him a poem in praise. In the thirty-second year he died, at the age of seventy-three, and was given the posthumous name Ke. Edit

[...] Chamberlain of the Imperial Guard, and still administered the Music Office and the Imperial Clan Court. [...] His son Hongpu, Duke Who Assists the State, died before him. His grandson Yongyan inherited, and held in succession the posts of Lieutenant-General, Chief Chamberlain of the Imperial Guard and Minister in attendance before the emperor. In the Jiaqing [...] fifty-third year he died and was given the posthumous name Shen. He had no son, and his nephew Mianke inherited, and held in succession the posts of Lieutenant-General and Chief Attendant [...]. In the eighth year, when Lin Qing rebelled and his followers entered the palace gate, Mianke took up arms to resist, shot and wounded one man, and received an edict that his case be considered for reward. The next year the emperor went on a tour to Mulan; Mianke memorialised that the bridge over the river had collapsed in the water, intending to hold up the journey, which did not suit the emperor's wishes, and for this he was fined his stipend and dismissed from all his posts. In the second year of Daoguang, because the work on the Hall of Eminent Favour at Yuling, which he had undertaken to repair, was done carelessly, he was reduced to prince of the Second Rank. In the fourth year, when the repair work was completed, his rank as prince of the First Rank was restored. In the sixth year he died and was given the posthumous name Xiang. His son Yibo succeeded. In the eighth year, because water had entered the underground palace at Baohuayu, Mianke's crime was reviewed after the fact, and Yibo was reduced to prince of the Second Rank, and his sons Yishi, Yiliu, Yiyun and Yigeng were stripped of their posts. In the eleventh year, on the emperor's fiftieth birthday, Yibo was restored as prince of the First Rank. In the ninth month of the eighteenth year, because he went with Puxi, Duke Who Assists the State, to a nunnery to smoke opium, he was stripped of his rank. The emperor, hearing that Yibo was frivolous and without good conduct, exiled him to Jilin; he further took a commoner's daughter as a concubine, and the exile was changed to Heilongjiang, and Mianhu, a great-grandson of Yunlu, inherited. Edit

Mianhu was a grandson of Hongyi, Duke Who Assists the State, who was Yunlu's second son, and a son of Yongfan, General Who Assists the State. In the twenty-first year he died and was given the posthumous name Qin. His younger brother Mianhua inherited; in the twenty-fifth year he died and was given the posthumous name Zhi. His son Yiren inherited; in the thirteenth year of Tongzhi he died and was given the posthumous name Hou. His son Zaixun inherited. In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu, when the Boxers entered the capital, Zaixun joined with Zaiyi, Prince Duan of the Second Rank, set up an altar in his residence, and allowed them to attack the legations. Soon he was appointed Commandant of the Infantry. When the emperor accompanied the Empress Dowager on her journey to Taiyuan, Zaixun followed and was Minister Inspecting the Camps at the Travelling Court. Afterwards, when peace was negotiated with the foreign states, he was punished as one of the chief instigators of the disaster, stripped of his rank, and granted to take his own life. His younger brother Zaigong inherited. Edit