Names and Titles
- Names:
- Clan name / family name: Aisin Gioro (simplified Chinese: 爱新觉罗; traditional Chinese: 愛新覺羅; pinyin: Àixīn Juéluó)
- Personal name: Yixin (simplified Chinese: 奕䜣; traditional Chinese: 奕訢; pinyin: Yìxīn; Wade–Giles: I-hsin)
- Pseudonym or art name: Master of the Yuedao Hall (simplified Chinese: 乐道堂主人; traditional Chinese: 樂道堂主人; pinyin: Yuèdàotáng Zhǔrén)
- Titles:
- Prince Gong of the First Rank (simplified Chinese: 恭亲王; traditional Chinese: 恭親王; pinyin: Gōng Qīnwáng), simplified to Prince Gong (or Prince Kung in Wade–Giles). Yixin held this title from 1850 until his death in 1898.
- Posthumous title (in full): Prince Gongzhong of the First Rank (simplified Chinese: 恭忠亲王; traditional Chinese: 恭忠親王; pinyin: Gōngzhōng Qīnwáng)
- Other references:
- Sixth Prince (simplified Chinese: 六王爷; traditional Chinese: 六王爺; pinyin: Lìu Wángyé)
- "Devil Number Six" (Chinese: 鬼子六; pinyin: Guǐ Zǐ Lìu)
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Famous quotes containing the words names and, names and/or titles:
“Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, “just in case” in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)
“I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)
“Lear. Dost thou call me fool, boy?
Fool. All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast born with.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)