Hóngzhòu 弘晝 (1711–1770), fifth son of the Yōngzhèng 雍正 emperor (Shìzōng) and full younger brother of the Qiánlóng 乾隆 emperor (Hónglì 弘曆) — they shared the same generational character 弘 in the imperial-naming sequence, and were close in age (born only three months apart, with different mothers). Created Héshuò Héqīnwáng 和碩和親王 (Prince Hé of the First Rank) in 1733 by his father, while still a bèilè; on Qiánlóng’s accession in 1735 he was confirmed in the princely title and entrusted with substantial bureaucratic responsibility, including supervision of the Wǔyīng diàn 武英殿 publishing office.
His principal documented contribution to the canonical literature is as continuator of his uncle Yǔnlù 允祿’s editorial work on the Yōngzhèng-period yùzhǐ compilations: he was assigned in 1736 to extend the Shàngyù nèigé 上諭內閣 (KR2f0008) — Yǔnlù had compiled the portion through 1729, and Hóngzhòu carried it forward through Yōngzhèng 8 to 13 (1730–1735) — completing and submitting the joint 159-juàn recension in Qiánlóng 6 (1741).
Hóngzhòu had a reputation among contemporaries (and in Qīng shǐ gǎo j. 220) for eccentric and self-protective conduct — most famously his practice of staging mock funerals for himself, eating sacrificial food, and otherwise feigning interest in death. The standard reading of the historians is that this was a deliberate strategy of self-preservation in the dangerous early Qiánlóng court, where his proximity in line of succession had made him potentially threatening to his elder brother. Whatever the motivation, he survived politically and died of natural causes in Qiánlóng 35 (1770).