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Fucha Dunchong
Late Qing Manchu bannerman of the Fucha clan who rose from clerk to prefect and wrote the Yanjing suishi ji on Beijing's festivals and customs.
In a study at night, a desk holds a brush pot, a porcelain vase with a plum branch, a lit red lantern, a folded fan and an unrolled blank scroll, with no one seated there, while through a round window the moon rises over a lake with a sailboat.
Also known as Dunchong · Zi Lichen · Hao Tieshi Daoren
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- Writer / Poet
Dunchong, courtesy name Lichen, sobriquet Tieshi Daoren, was a Manchu of the Bordered Yellow Banner from the Shaji Fucha clan, and is usually called Fucha Dunchong. Entering service as a clerk (bithesi), he rose to prefect of Si'en in Guangxi, and in 1909 he followed the Northeast viceroy Xiliang and was promoted to circuit intendant. His Yanjing suishi ji, whose postscript is dated the third month of 1900, records Beijing's festivals, etiquette, outings, local products and crafts month by month. He also wrote the Huangshi jianwen lu and a collection of poems, Ziteng guan shicao.
Life and times
Dates Dates disputed (usually given as born 1855, died 1911 or 1922); completed the Yanjing suishi ji in 1900