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 against, or his disregard of, the Emperor or his decrees. In August 1724 he was ordered to dwell as guardian near the tomb of his deceased father. Actually, however, he was a prisoner closely guarded by the military who were stationed nearby. Early in 1726 he was degraded to a prince of the fourth class on the charge of extravagance and cruelty while stationed in Sining.

In the spring of 1726 a Bannerman named Ts'ai Huai-hsi 蔡懷璽, attempted to communicate with Yin-t'i, asserting that in a dream he had been instructed by a god to assist Yin-t'i on the ground that he was the lawful Emperor, and to announce that Yin-t'ang's mother was to be made Empress Dowager (perhaps he regarded Yin-t'i's own mother as a tool of Yin-chên and so disqualified). Refused admittance by the servants, Ts'ai twice tossed over the wall of Yin-t'i's residence slips of paper on which were written the above assertions. The first piece of paper Yin-t'i handed to the officer on guard after having cut off the part concerning the 'lawful emperor'. When the second unmutilated communication was intercepted the Emperor accused Yin-t'i of attempting to cover up important evidence of treason. In June he was deprived of all ranks and was removed to the Shou Huang Tien 壽皇殿 in the Ching-shan 景山 enclosure of the Forbidden City. In July when the alleged "crimes" of Yin -ssŭ and Yin-t'ang were announced, Yin-t'i was condemned on fourteen counts but his punishment was commuted to imprisonment. Emperor Shih-tsung declared that Yin-t'i had been misled by his half brothers and thus was entitled to less severe treatment.

For more than nine years Yin-t'i was imprisoned at Ching-shan and then was released by order of his nephew, Emperor Kao-tsung (late in 1735). In 1737 he was given the rank of a prince of the sixth degree which in 1747 was raised to the third degree. As he grew older he became less bitter; in 1748 he was commended for good behavior and was made a prince of the second degree with the designation Hsün (恂郡王). At his death in 1755 he was canonized as Ch'in 勤.

Yin-t'i's eldest son, Hung-ch'un 弘春, at one time (1733–34) held the princedom of the second degree with the designation, T'ai (泰郡王), but was degraded in 1734, and deprived of all ranks in 1735. Hung-ch'un's great~grandson,, was the general who was defeated by the British troops in Kwangtung in 1842. Another son of Yin-t'i, Hung-ming (see under ), was in 1735 made a prince of the third degree and was canonized as Kung-ch'in 恭勤. Hung-ming's son,, was a celebrated poet. The descendants of Yin-t'i belonged to the Bordered Blue Banner.

[1/226/14a; 15/3/35; Ch'ing-ch'u san ta-i-an k'ao-shih (see bibl. under ); Wên-hsien ts'ung-pien (see bibl. under ); see bibl. under .]

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 YING-ho 英和, May 27, 1771–1839, July 18, official and writer, was a Manchu of the Socolo 索綽絡 clan. Certain of his ancestors were probably taken captive by or, and so went into the service of the Ch'ing Imperial Household as slaves or bondservants. His great-grandfather, Dutu 都圖, served as a department director in the Imperial Household under Emperor Shêng-tsu and was given the Chinese surname, Shih 石. His father, Tê-pao 德保, became a chin-shih in 173. In that year a cousin of his father, named Kuan-pao 觀保, obtained the same degree. The two cousins were selected bachelors of the Hanlin Academy—Kuan-pao serving as president of the Board of Ceremonies (1769) and of the Censorate (1769–74); and Tê-pao as governor of Kwangtung (1770–76) and of Fukien (1776–78), and as president of the Board of Ceremonies (1778–89).

Ying-ho became a chin-shih in 1793, entered the Hanlin Academy, and two years later became a compiler. In 1799, after the corrupt minister,, had been superseded, Emperor Jên-tsung gave high posts to some officials who had been courageous enough to oppose that once powerful mandarin. Ying-ho records that he shared in the imperial favor because, when he was young, his father had declined to affiance him to Ho-shên's daughter. Thus, in 1799, Ying-ho became a sub-chancellor of the Grand Secretariat and a year later was made a vice president of the Board of Ceremonies. In 1801 he was given the concurrent post of a minister of the Imperial Household-an office once filled by his father. In the same year he was transferred to the Board of Revenue, and in 1804 was made concurrently a Grand Councilor. In 1805 he ventured to expose a colleague, Liu Ch'üan-chih 劉權之 , 931