Qing · General and Official

Buyantai 布彥泰

Died AD 1880

Passages
18
Chapters
4
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Buyantai as an administrator, aristocrat, general, and official. This record brings together 18 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Buyantai 布彥泰 Buyantai
Personal Bu Yantai 布彥泰 Bu Yantai
Personal name Buyantai 布彥泰 Bùyàntài
Personal Buyantai 布彥泰 Bùyàntài
Personal name Buyantai 布彥泰 Buyantai
Title General 將軍
Title Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent 太子太保
Title Pacification General of the West 定西將軍
Clan Yanza 顏扎 Yanza

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Aristocrat
  • General
  • Official

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒六年 · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1880

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 道光十年 · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 1830
  • Source Date: Text: 道光十四年 · Regnal Year: 14 · Western Year: AD 1834
  • Source Date: Text: 道光十八年 · Regnal Year: 18 · Western Year: AD 1838
  • Source Date: Text: 咸豐二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1852
  • Source Date: Text: 道光二十年 · Regnal Year: 20 · Western Year: AD 1840
  • Source Date: Text: 道光二十二年 · Regnal Year: 22 · Western Year: AD 1842
  • Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十三年 · Regnal Year: 23 · Western Year: AD 1818
  • Source Date: Text: 道光二十四年 · Regnal Year: 24 · Western Year: AD 1844
  • Source Date: Text: 道光二十五年 · Regnal Year: 25 · Western Year: AD 1845
  • Source Date: Text: 道光二十六年 · Regnal Year: 26 · Western Year: AD 1846
  • Source Date: Text: 道光二十七年 · Regnal Year: 27 · Western Year: AD 1847
  • Source Date: Text: 道光二十九年 · Regnal Year: 29 · Western Year: AD 1849
  • Source Date: Text: 咸豐四年 · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 1854
  • Source Date: Text: 光緒六年 · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1880
  • Source Date: Text: 道光九年 · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 1829
  • Source Date: Text: 二十七年 · Western Year: AD 1847
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:373:s0035
  • Source Date: Text: 道光二十五年 · Western Year: AD 1845
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:389:s0120
  • Source Date: Text: 道光二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1846
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:369:s0098, qingshigao:369:s0201
  • Source Date: Text: 道光二十四年 · Western Year: AD 1844
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:369:s0094
  • Source Date: Text: 道光初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1821 · End: AD 1823

Family

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  • Child of Zhuerhang'a (珠爾杭阿)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: acting vice commander of Plain Blue Chinese Banner / 署正藍旗漢軍副都統 · Action: acted-as
  • Label: assistant minister at Yarkand / 葉爾羌幫辦大臣 · Action: appointed
  • Label: blue-lance bodyguard / 藍翎侍衛 · Action: appointed
  • Label: duty within Gate of Heavenly Purity / 乾清門行走 · Action: appointed
  • Label: governor-general of Shaanxi and Gansu / 陝甘總督 · Action: appointed
  • Label: Hami resident minister / 哈密辦事大臣 · Action: appointed
  • Label: Ili brigade commander / 伊犁領隊大臣 · Action: appointed
  • Label: Ili general / 伊犁將軍 · Action: appointed
  • Label: Kashgar major-general / 喀什噶爾總兵 · Action: appointed
  • Label: Mongol commander of Bordered Yellow Banner / 鑲黃旗蒙古都統 · Action: appointed
  • Label: Pacification General of the West / 定西將軍 · Action: appointed
  • Label: vice commander of Plain White Chinese Banner / 正白旗漢軍副都統 · Action: appointed
  • Label: vice commander rank / 副都統銜 · Action: granted
  • Label: Governor-General of Shaanxi and Gansu / 陝甘總督 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1846
  • Label: General / 將軍 · Action: held
  • Label: Kashgar resident commissioner / 喀什噶爾參贊大臣 · Action: held
  • Label: resident minister / 辦事大臣 · Action: held
  • Label: Ush resident minister / 烏什辦事大臣 · Action: held
  • Title: Adviser Commissioner / 參贊 · Action: held
  • Title: Governor-General of Shaanxi and Gansu / 陝甘總督 · Action: held
  • Label: attendance in imperial presence / 御前行走 · Action: ordered
  • Label: Chahar commander / 察哈爾都統 · Action: promoted-to
  • Label: first-class bodyguard / 頭等侍衛 · Action: promoted-to
  • Label: second-class bodyguard / 二等侍衛 · Action: promoted-to
  • Label: second-class bodyguard / 二等侍衛 · Action: restored
  • Label: Ili resident commissioner / 伊犁參贊大臣 · Action: transferred-to
  • Label: Tarbagatai resident commissioner / 塔爾巴哈台參贊大臣 · Action: transferred-to
  • Label: Xining resident minister / 西寧辦事大臣 · Action: transferred-to
  • Label: Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent / 太子太保 · Action: awarded
  • Label: commander-level funeral honors / 依都統例賜卹 · Action: posthumously-granted
  • Title: hereditary cavalry commandant / 騎都尉世職 · Action: inherited
  • Status: ill-leave · Action: entered
  • Status: retired · Action: entered
  • Label: demotion and dismissal for lax seals and audit errors / 降調革任 · Action: sentenced

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Credential: yinsheng hereditary quota / 廕生 · Action: entered-by

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: effective overall direction · Provenance: Mode: edict
  • Assessment: loyal service to the state and effective supervision · Provenance: Mode: edict
  • Assessment: Xinjiang reclamation and Xining pacification depended on Lin Zexu · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment

Source notes

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 369Volume 369 Biographies 156: Lin Zexu, Deng Tingzhen, Da Hong A · 3 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 373Volume 373 Biographies 160: Zong Shiyishan, Long Wen, Zong Shiyijing, Wen Wei, Te Yi Shun, Yu Buyun · 2 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 382Volume 382 Biographies 169: Hu Song E, Bu Yan Tai, Sa Ying A · 12 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 389Volume 389 Biographies 176: Bai Jun, Lin Kui, Rui Chang, Quan Qing · 1 passage