Dodo, Prince Yu
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Dodo, formally known as Prince Yu, was a Manchu prince and military general of the early Qing dynasty.
Portrait of Dodo from the Palace Museum Archives
A late-Qing woodblock print representing the Yangzhou massacre of May 1645. Dodo ordered this massacre to scare other southern Chinese cities into submission. By the late nineteenth century the massacre was used by anti-Qing revolutionaries to arouse anti-Manchu sentiment among the ethnic Chinese population.
Lady Abahai
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Empress Xiaoliewu, of the Ula-Nara clan, personal name Abahai, was a wife of Nurhaci.
Dodo, Prince Yu
…Dodo was born in the Manchu Aisin Gioro clan as the 15th son of Nurhaci, the founder of the Later Jin dynasty. His mother was Nurhaci's primary spouse Lady Abahai, who also bore Dodo's full brothers Ajige and Dorgon. In 1620, Dodo was conferred the title of an ejen. He became a beile at the age of 13 and was put…
Portrait of Empress Xiaoliewu in court dress, by anonymous painter