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China: Noble Consort Xun (-1797), concubine of the Qianglong Emperor.

The Noble Consort Xun was the daughter of the Governor General Guilin. She came from the Manchu Irgen-Gioro clan. Lady Irgen-Gioro entered the Imperial Court on November 18, during the forty-first year of Emperor Qianlong's reign, and was given the title Imperial Concubine with the title Xun (the fifth lowest rank among an emperor's wives). The ceremony for the promotion took place three years later due to the death of Qianlong's mother. In December during the fifty-ninth year of Emperor Qianlong's reign, Irgen Gioro was elevated to a Consort. On November 20 during the second year of the Jiaqing Emperor's reign, Irgen-Gioro died, and on September 11 during the fourth year of the Jiaqing Emperor's reign, Irgen-Gioro was buried with the ceremony of a Noble Consort.