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China: Empress Shen Cheng (1789 – 1833) was the second Empress Consort of the Daoguang Emperor.

China: Empress Shen Cheng (1789 – 1833) was the second Empress Consort of the Daoguang Emperor.

Tonggiya (or Tunggiya), Empress Shen Cheng, was of the Tongiya clan, and was the daughter of Shu Minga. She became a concubine in her early years and then became Daoguang's official wife in 1808 just after the death of Empress Xiao Mu Cheng. Lady Tongiya gave birth to the eldest daughter of the Daoguang Emperor in 1813, and was elevated to an Empress Consort in 1822. Empress Xiao Shen Cheng died in the thirteenth year of the Daoguang Emperor's reign, and was later interred into the Muling Mausoleum.

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