Niuhuru, Empress He Rui

Infobox Chinese Royalty|(majesty/none)|(consort)
name = Niuhuru, Empress He Rui
native name = 和睿皇后
temple name =


caption = Artist Drawing of Empress He Rui
reign = 1797 – 1820
predecessor = Hitara, Empress Shu Rui
successor = Niuhuru, Empress Mu Cheng
spouse = Jiaqing Emperor
issue = Prince Miankai
Prince Mianxin
Princess Zhuangjing
"Unnamed Princess" (Died in Childhood)
titles = Niuhuru, Side Fujin of Prince Jia
Niuhuru, the Imperial Noble Consort
Niuhuru, Empress He Rui
Niuhuru, Empress Dowager Gong Ci
royal house = Aisin-Gioro
father = Niuhuru Ala (鈕祜祿阿拉)
date of birth = 1776
date of death = December 1850|

Niuhuru, Empress He Rui ( _zh. 和睿皇后鈕祜祿氏), 1776–1850, came from the Manchu Niuhuru clan. She was the second Empress Consort of the Qing Dynasty Jia Qing Emperor of China, and she was the daughter of Gongala and born in the 41st year of the Qian Long Emperor's reign.

Biography

Lady Niuhuru entered the Forbidden City as a lady in waiting to Prince Yong Kan (the future Jia Qing Emperor). She had two sons, the third prince 綿愷 and the fourth prince 綿忻. The Emperor's first wife, the Empress Xiao Shu Rui, died of illness after being Empress for only one year. She left a son, the second Prince Minning 旻寧. (The first prince died shortly after birth). Empress Xiao He Rui was very nice to Prince Minning, although he was not her own child. She took care and looked after him. The relationship between the stepson Prince Minning and the stepmother Empress Xiao He Rui was very harmonic and well-developed.

When the Jia Qing Emperor died, Prince Minning was at the city of Chengde. Niuhuru, now the "Empress Dowager Gong Ci" ( _zh. 恭慈皇太后), ordered her servants to deliver her message across 500 kilometres as fast as possible to Prince Minning, naming him as the next Emperor. Minning, now, the Dao Guang Emperor, was extremely gracious of the Dowager Empress's decision. He said that the Dowager Empress is a very broad-minded woman, not taking this opportunity to name her own sons as Emperors.

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