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 his failure to express grief at the death of who, in the matter of succession, had taken sides with the Emperor. He was confined in the Ching-shan enclosure and there he died. In 1737 his nephew, the succeeding Emperor, Kao-tsung, gave him the posthumous name, Yin 隱. Only his seventh son, Hungching 弘景 (d. 1777), was permitted to hold a minor hereditary rank. One holder of the rank, a descendant of Yin-chih in the sixth generation, named Tsai-ling 載齡, served as a Grand Secretary in the years 1877–80.

[The above-mentioned Temple of Confucius at Ch'ü-fu was restored in the years 1500–04, after a disastrous fire. As stated in the biography of, it was visited by Emperor Shêng-tsu in 1684. At that time it was in a dilapidated condition, and in 1690 repairs were ordered to be made. Several structures were razed by fire in 1724 and the present buildings are mostly those restored in 1730. A few smaller ones are said to date from the Yuan dynasty].

[1/226/6a; 1/446/1b;, Hsi-ch'ao va-sung chi 1/12a; Tung-hua lu, Yung-chêng 6:6, 8:5; Ku-kung tien-pên-shu-k'u hsien-ts'un-mu (see bibl. under ) lei-shu 1a, i-hstang 1a; Ch'ing Huang-shih ssŭ-p'u (see under ) 3/13a; Bulletin of the Society for Research in Chinese Architecture (in Chinese) vol. 6, no. 1 (Sept. 1935) pp. 10–12.]

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 YIN-hsiang 胤祥, Nov. 16, 1686–1730, June 18, the first Prince I (怡親王), was the thirteenth son of Emperor Shêng-tsu. His mother (née Chang-chia 章佳, posthumous name 敬敏皇貴妃, d. 1699) was one of the Emperor's concubines. Yin-hsiang seems to have received but little favor from his imperial father and the part he took, if any, in the struggle of his halfbrothers for the throne is not known. Late in 1722 Emperor Shêng-tsu died and succeeded to the throne. Early in 1723 the new Emperor made Yin-hsiang a prince of the first degree with the designation I. At this time princedoms were bestowed on several of the Emperor's half-brothers, including, his arch-enemy. Yin-hsiang soon proved his loyalty to the new Emperor and won his confidence. In 1723 he was placed in charge of the mismanaged Board of Revenue, and thereafter was showered with favors. He was granted many privileges not usually enjoyed by a prince, and in 1725 was offered the additional hereditary rank of a prince of the second degree. Early in 1726 he was placed in charge of river conservancy in Chihli and later in that year was rewarded with a tablet of eight characters written by the Emperor in praise of his loyalty, honesty, diligence and incorruptibility. A collection of his memorials concerning the rivers of Chihli, entitled to 怡賢親王疏鈔 I-hsien ch'in-wang shu-ch'ao, was printed in 1823 by Wu Pang-ch'ing 吳邦慶, in the 畿輔河道水利叢書 Chi-fu ho-tao shui-li ts'ung-shu, completed in 1824.

When Emperor Shih-tsung decided to subdue the Eleuths in the Illi valley he created (1729) a special Grand Council, known as Chün-chi ch'u (see under ), which thereafter became the most important office in the empire. Yin-hsiang, and  were the first three Grand Councilors. A year later (1730) Yin-hsiang died and was deeply mourned by the Emperor. His original name, changed to Yün-hsiang 允祥 for to avoid the use of the word Yin in Emperor Shih-tsung's personal name, was ordered to be restored—the only instance of this kind in the annals of the dynasty. Yin-hsiang was canonized as Hsien 賢 and his memory was celebrated in the Temple of Eminent Statesmen. In 1754 his nephew, Emperor Kao-tsung, ordered that his name be entered in the Temple of Eminent Princes in Mukden and, early in 1775, the right of perpetual inheritance was added to his princedom of the first degree. This rank was inherited in 1730 by his seventh son, Hung-hsiao 弘曉, who was a noted poet. The additional rank of a prince of the second degree, with the designation Ning 寧, was inherited in 1730 by Yin-hsiang's fourth son, Hung-chiao 弘晈 (posthumous name 良).

The poems of Yin-hsiang, Hung-hsiao and Hung-chiao are represented in the anthology known as Hsi-ch'ao ya-sung-chi (see under ). A small collection of Yin-hsiang's verse, entitled 交輝園遺稿 Chiao-hui yüan i-kao, 1 chüan, was printed in 1738 as a supplement to the collected works of Emperor Shih-tsung (see under ). Hung-hsiao left a collection of poems, entitled 明善堂集 Ming-shan t'ang chi, 12 chüan, after the name of his studio for whieh Emperor Kao-tsung indited the characters in 1740. The Ming-shan t'ang was renowned in his day for the large collection of rare editions which it contained. It is reported that Yin-hsiang bought the books with the help  923