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Zaitao (23 June 1887 - 2 September 1970), pseudonym Yeyun (), was a Manchu prince of the Qing Dynasty. He was a half-brother of the Guangxu Emperor and an uncle of China's last emperor Puyi. ==Biography== Zaitao was born of the Manchu Aisin Gioro clan as the seventh son of Yixuan, Prince Chun of the First Rank. His family was under the Plain Red Banner of the Eight Banners. He was later adopted by Yihe (奕詥), Prince Zhong of the Second Rank, because Yihe had no successor. In 1890, during the reign of the Guangxu Emperor, Zaitao was conferred the title of "Second Class General Who Guards the Nation" (二等鎮國將軍). In 1908 he and Tieliang (鐵良) were appointed as ''zongsi jicha'' (總司稽察; a type of inspector-official). A year later in 1909, during the reign of the Xuantong Emperor (Puyi), he was put in charge of the military consultant department (軍諮處). The following year, he visited eight countries - Japan, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria and Russia - to observe and learn from their more advanced military forces. In May 1910 he was sent to Britain as an ambassador and represented the Qing Dynasty at the funeral of King Edward VII.〔The Times, May 21, 1910〕 In 1911 Zaitao was appointed as a minister of the military consultant department (軍諮大臣) and placed in charge of the Imperial Guards (禁衛軍). He was also designated as the commander of the Mongol Bordered Yellow Banner. In January 1912, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Zaitao, Zaixun, and others from the imperial clan, founded the ''zongshe dang'' (宗社黨) to preserve their ancestral temple, but this organisation was disbanded in March. In 1917 when the warlord Zhang Xun briefly restored the abdicated Last Emperor Puyi to the throne, Zaitao was appointed as commanding officer of the Imperial Guards (禁衛軍司令). In 1931 Zaitao was recruited by the Nationalist government to join the National Crisis Conference (國難會議). After the People's Republic of China was established in 1949, Zaitao was a member of the National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Zaitao fancied horses. In his early years he studied cavalry warfare in France's Saumur Cavalry School. After 1949 he served as a consultant on horses in the artillery department of the People's Liberation Army. Zaitao was also interested in Peking opera. He was trained in both long and short range types of performing martial arts, and specialised in playing monkey roles in opera. He was tutored by Yang Xiaolou (楊小樓) and Zhang Qilin (張淇林). Opera actor Li Wanchun (李萬春) trained under Zaitao for three years. Zaitao died in Beijing in 1970 at the age of 82. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zaitao」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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