Chongqi (, 1829âÂÂ1900), courtesy name Wenshan (æÂÂå±±), was a Qing dynasty official from the Alut clan (é¿é¯ç¹æ°Â). He was the father of Empress Xiaozheyi.
Chongqi was the third son of Saià ¡angga. He started out in official life by purchasing the degree of a licentiate. In 1865, he obtained zhuangyuan degree in the imperial examination and was selected a xiuzhuan (ä¿®æ°) 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 (å §é£å¸士), Vice Minister of Personnel (Ã¥ÂÂé¨ä¾ÂéÂÂ), Vice Minister of Revenue (æ¶é¨ä¾ÂéÂÂ), deputy lieutenant-general of the Han Chinese Bordered Yellow Banner (é²é»ÂæÂÂæ¼¢è»Âå¯é½統), lieutenant-general of Rehe (ç±河é½統), general of Mukden (çÂÂ京å°Âè»Â), Minister of Personnel and other positions.
As an official hostile to Christianity, Chongqi was promoted to the Minister of Revenue by Empress Dowager Cixi during the Boxer Rebellion. He and Xu Tong, submitted a memorial to the court unambiguously demanding the killing of all Chinese Christians and foreigners in China. When Beijing fell to the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900, Sawara Tokusuke (ä½ÂÃ¥ÂÂ篤ä»Â), a Japanese journalist, wrote in Miscellaneous Notes about the Boxers (æ³äºÂéÂÂè¨Â) 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. Chongqi's wife, Lady Gà «walgiya, jumped into a pit and ordered her servants to bury her alive. His son Baochu (èÂÂÃ¥ÂÂ), and four grandsons, met the same fate. In the meantime Chongqi fled to Baoding together with Ronglu. After learning of his family's tragic fate, Chongqi committed suicide by hanging.