{{Short description|Qing dynasty politician (1829–1900)}} {{family name hatnote|Chongqi|Alut|lang=Manchu}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Third Class Duke Cheng'en | honorific_suffix = | name = Chongqi<br>{{nobold|崇綺}} | image = 崇綺.jpg | office = Minister of Revenue | term_start = 16 July | term_end = 26 August 1900 | alongside = Wang Wenshao | predecessor = Lishan | successor = Jingxin<!--敬信--> | term_start1 = 11 November 1884 | term_end1 = 3 January 1886 | alongside1 = Yan Jingming<!--閻敬銘--> | predecessor1 = Elhebu<!--額勒和布--> | successor1 = Fukun<!--福錕--> | office2 = Minister of Personnel | term_start2 = 3 January | term_end2 = 16 March 1886 | alongside2 = Xu Tong | predecessor2 = Encheng<!--恩承--> | successor2 = Xizhen<!--錫珍--> | office3 = General of Mukden<!--盛京將軍--> | term_start3 = 30 August 1881 | term_end3 = 19 January 1884 | predecessor3 = Qiyuan<!--岐元--> | successor3 = Qingyu<!--慶裕--> | occupation = politician | father = Saišangga | mother = Lady Fuca | spouse = Lady Aisin Gioro (daughter of Duanhua),<br>Lady Aisin Gioro (sister of Fukun),<br>Lady Gūwalgiya | relations = Duanhua (father-in-law), Imperial Noble Consort Gongsu (sister), Empress Xiaozheyi (daughter), Baochu (son), Yixiang (Son-in-law) | children = | education = ''zhuangyuan'' degree in the 1865 imperial examination | birth_date = 1829 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1900|8|26|1829||}} | death_place = Baoding | blank1 = Clan name | data1 = Alut (阿魯特) | blank2 = Courtesy name | data2 = Wenshan (文山) | blank3 = Posthumous name | data3 = Wenjie (文節) | allegiance = Qing dynasty | branch = Mongolian Plain Blue Banner, later Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner<ref>{{cite web | url = https://newarchive.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/sncaccgi/sncacFtp?ACTION=TQ,sncacFtpqf,SN=004730,2nd,search_simple | title = (阿魯特)崇綺 }}</ref> | service_years = | rank = | commands = | battles = Taiping Rebellion<br>Second Opium War<br>Boxer Rebellion | laterwork = }} '''Chongqi''' ({{lang-zh|t=崇綺}}, 1829–1900), courtesy name '''Wenshan''' (文山), was a Qing dynasty official from the Alut clan<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Historiography/baqimanzhoushizutongpu.html | title = Baqi Manzhou shizu tongpu 八旗滿洲氏族通譜}}</ref> (阿魯特氏). He was the father of Empress Xiaozheyi.
Chongqi was the third son of Saišangga. He started out in official life by purchasing the degree of a licentiate.<ref name="ECCP">{{cite ECCP|title=Ch'ung-ch'i}}</ref> In 1865, he obtained ''zhuangyuan'' degree in the imperial examination and was selected a ''xiuzhuan'' (修撰) of the Hanlin Academy. He was the only Mongolian ''zhuangyuan'' in the Qing Dynasty, scholar-officials praised him highly. Chongqi had served as Secretary of Cabinet (內閣學士), Vice Minister of Personnel (吏部侍郎), Vice Minister of Revenue (戶部侍郎), deputy lieutenant-general of the Han Chinese Bordered Yellow Banner (鑲黃旗漢軍副都統), lieutenant-general of Rehe (熱河都統), general of Mukden (盛京將軍), Minister of Personnel and other positions.<ref name="清史稿"/>
As an official hostile to Christianity, Chongqi was promoted to the Minister of Revenue by Empress Dowager Cixi during the Boxer Rebellion.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.historychina.net/qsyj/ztyj/ztyjzz/2012-01-16/32979.shtml | title = 奕劻在义和团运动中的庐山真面目 | website = National Qing History Compilation Committee }}</ref> He and Xu Tong, submitted a memorial to the court unambiguously demanding the killing of all Chinese Christians and foreigners in China.<ref>{{cite book | title = Heaven in Conflict: Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi | first = Anthony E. |last=Clark|year =2015|isbn = 9780295805405| publisher =University of Washington Press |page = 45}}</ref> When Beijing fell to the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900, Sawara Tokusuke (佐原篤介), a Japanese journalist, wrote in ''Miscellaneous Notes about the Boxers'' (拳事雜記) about the rapes of Manchu and Mongol banner girls. Sawara alleged that a daughter and wife of Chongqi were allegedly gang-raped by soldiers of the Eight-Nation Alliance.<ref>{{cite book|title=Compiled Materials on the Boxers (Yihetuan wenxian huibian)|chapter=Miscellaneous Notes about the Boxers" (Quanshi zaji)|last=Tokusuke|first=Sawara|publisher=Dingwen|year=1973|pages=266–268}}</ref> Chongqi's wife, Lady Gūwalgiya, jumped into a pit and ordered her servants to bury her alive. His son Baochu (葆初), and four grandsons, met the same fate.<ref name="清史稿">{{wikisource-inline|zh:清史稿/卷468#崇綺|清史稿/卷468}} (Draft History of Qing Volume 468)</ref> In the meantime Chongqi fled to Baoding together with Ronglu. After learning of his family's tragic fate, Chongqi committed suicide by hanging.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.cuc.edu.cn/oldnews/2013/0713/c1847a47779/page.htm | title = 庚子劫——八国联军劫掠北京 }}</ref>
==Family== *Father: Saišangga *Mother: Lady Fuca (富察氏) *Primary consort, of the Aisin Giolo clan (愛新覺羅氏), daughter of Duanhua, Prince Zheng of the First Rank (和碩鄭親王端華) **Daughter: Empress Xiaozheyi (孝哲毅皇后), married Tongzhi Emperor *Second primary consort, of the Aisin Giolo clan (愛新覺羅氏), daughter of Vice Commander-in-chief of Jilin Zaiyao (吉林副都統 載耀), sister of Grand Secretary Fukun (大學士 福錕) **A daughter, married Yixiang, Prince Hui of the Second Rank (多羅惠郡王奕詳) *Third primary consort, of the Gūwalgiya clan (瓜爾佳氏, died 1900), daughter of regional commander Changrui (總兵 長瑞) **Son: Baochu, Junior Assistant Chamberlain of the Imperial Guard (散秩大臣 葆初, died 1900)
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