琮 Cóng

Cong, Emperor Fengtian, was made Prince of Xuchang Commandery in the first year of Jingyun, enfeoffed at the same time as the Prince of Zhending. In the first year of Xiantian he was advanced to Prince of Tan, enfeoffed at the same time as the Prince of Ying. In the fourth year of Kaiyuan he held the posts of Grand Protector-General of Anxi and Grand Commissioner for Pacifying the Various Foreign Peoples of Hedong, Guannei and Longyou. In the thirteenth year he was moved to Prince of Qing, enfeoffed at the same time as eleven princes: those of Zhong, Di, Rong, Guang, Yi, Ying, Yong, Shou, Yan, Sheng and Ji. In the fifteenth year he and ten other princes all held military commissions, without leaving the palace. Cong, as Area Commander-in-chief of Liang Prefecture, was concurrently Grand Military Commissioner of the Armies of Hexi. In the first year of Tianbao he was changed to the military commission of Hedong. He died in the tenth year and was posthumously made Crown Prince, with the posthumous name Jingde. When Suzong came to the throne, he issued an edict: "Cong, the Crown Prince Jingde, was by kinship my elder brother, wise and intelligent. When I ascended to the place of heir, I was truly not next in order, but my lord and father had commanded it, and I did not dare disobey; though I long and earnestly declined, I could not have it as I wished. He should be given the higher posthumous title of Emperor Fengtian, and his consort, of the Dou clan, that of Empress Gongying." By edict Pei Mian, Right Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs, bearing the imperial insignia, reburied him. The assembled officials, in plain mourning clothes, saw the procession off as far as the Li Gate, and the Emperor came to the gate and wept as the funeral passed. The tomb was named the Qi Mausoleum. He had no son, and Qiu, son of the Crown Prince Ying, was made his heir as prince. Cong's first name was Sizhi; the Crown Prince's was Siqian, the Prince of Di's Sizhen, the Prince of E's Sichu, and the Crown Prince Jinggong's Sixuan. In the thirteenth year of Kaiyuan their names were changed to Tan, Hong, Qia, Juan and Huang. Ten years later they were changed to the names given here. Edit