Abstract:

In 1759 A.D., the Manchu emperor Ayshin’gioro Hongli finally conquered the whole East Turkistan1’ı. The Manchu army triumphant returned with the former Uyghur King’s corpse and the royal family members who not yet escaped to west. These prisoners arrived at Peking on 12 April 1760. To salute his army, the Manchu emperor had officials built a saluting platform with a few of attached structures for him to hold a great ceremony in the outskirts of Peking. After that, right next to the platform, he had a pavilion built with a four languages monument that included Manchu, Chinese, Mongolian and Chagatai Turkic in it to commemorate the saluting. During entire Manchu empire, multilingual documents include Uyghur from the imperial court are not rare. However, there were quite few inscriptions left. The author had studied one famous four languages inscription of Uyghur mosque in inner city of Peking in 1764. Yet this monument had not known and studied because of its location. The author will explain the historical background first, and analysis language features of the Chagatai Turkic part and give comparative analysis of the four languages texts, at the end is the transcriptions to the Chagatai Turkic part of the text and its English translation for the first time

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