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Daoguang Emperor
Daoguang Emperor of Qing, who sent Lin Zexu to suppress the opium trade at Canton and then accepted the Treaty of Nanjing after the First Opium War
Mural of the event “Treaty of Nanking”, which this person took part in.
The Qing court long practiced seclusion policy, seriously cut off from the development tide of modern Western industrial revolution. To reverse the trade deficit against China, Britain shamelessly launched the Opium War.
Also known as Daoguang Di · Qing Xuanzong · Ai Xin Jue Luo · Min Ning
- Roles
- Monarch / Emperor
Minning, the Daoguang Emperor, was the second son of the Jiaqing Emperor by Empress Xiaoshurui. When members of the Heavenly Principle sect broke into the Forbidden City in 1813 he shot attackers with a musket and was made Prince Zhi. He succeeded his father in 1820, put down Jahangir's rising in Xinjiang and tried shipping tribute grain to the capital by sea. In 1838 he sent Lin Zexu to Canton as imperial commissioner to stamp out opium, and Lin destroyed the confiscated stocks at Humen the next year; Britain sent a fleet in 1840, and after defeat the Qing signed the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842, ceding Hong Kong Island and opening five ports. He died at the Yuanmingyuan in February 1850, with the temple name Xuanzong and the posthumous title Emperor Cheng. The sealed casket he left named his fourth son Yizhu as heir and his sixth son Yixin as a prince of the first rank, the only such double edict of the Qing.
Life and times
Dates 1782 CE–1850 CE
- 1842Treaty of NankingTook partage 60