Cuyen
| Cuyen | |||||||||
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| Reign | ? - 1615 | ||||||||
| Predecessor | title granted | ||||||||
| Born | 1580 | ||||||||
| Died | 1615 (aged 34–35) | ||||||||
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| House | Aisin Gioro | ||||||||
| Father | Nurhaci | ||||||||
| Mother | Hahana-jacing | ||||||||
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| Aisin-Gioro Cuyen (愛新覺羅·褚英) | |
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Beile Guanglue (廣略貝勒) |
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| Chinese | 褚英 | ||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Chǔyīng |
Cuyen (Manchu: 
; Möllendorff: Cuyen; Abkai: Quyen; 1580–1615) was a Manchu prince and eldest son of the Jurchen ruler Nurhaci, the early patriarch of the Qing dynasty. An accomplished warrior, Cuyen was instrumental in the consolidation of Nurhaci's authority among rival Jurchen clans. He also served as the primary civil administrator for intermittent periods in the regime founded by Nurhaci. Eventually, however, he lost favour with his father because he tried to cast sorcery spells against other princes, and was placed in solitary confinement. He died in captivity a few years later.
Cuyen was born in 1580, probably somewhere in the present-day Jilin province in northeastern China, to a prominent family of Jianzhou Jurchens. He is the grandson of Taksi and eldest son of Nurhaci, who at the time was just beginning to rise to prominence in the Jurchen tribe he belonged. Cuyen's mother was Hahana-jacing of the Tunggiya clan, Nurhaci's primary wife, who also gave birth to the prince Daišan.
Cuyen was an able warrior, and spent much of his youth assisting his father in consolidating power in the Manchuria region. His fought in his first major battle against the Anculakit, a rival Jurchen tribe, in 1598, when he was merely 18 years old. When he returned victorious from the field, his father Nurhaci bestowed upon him high honours, granting him the title of Hung Baturu. This later led to some Chinese accounts to refer to Cuyen by the nickname Hong Batu (roughly, "red guy grasping a rabbit").
Cuyen's next major expedition was sometime around 1608. He and his brother Daišan stormed the town of Fio Hoton (near present-day Hunchun, Jilin) in an attempt to complete the resettlement of another Jurchen tribe who was said to be suffering oppression from the Ula clan, a strategic rival to Nurhaci. However, this put Cuyen at odds with his uncle Šurhaci, a younger brother of Nurhaci, whose daughters had married men from the Ula clan and who had, presumably, wanted to leverage this alliance with Ula to challenge Nurhaci politically. Cuyen again went to war against Ula several years later and took a mountain fortress in the process.
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