Cha Chonghua (查崇華)

Overview

The translated histories identify Cha Chonghua as an administrator, attendant, and official. This record brings together 8 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Cha Chonghua	查崇華	Cha Chonghua
Personal name	Cha Chonghua	查崇華	Cha Chonghua
Courtesy name	Jiufeng	九峰	Jiufeng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:362:s0200

Roles

Administrator
Attendant
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died after retiring for age
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0221

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十八年 · Western Year: AD 1813
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:362:s0212
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十四年 · Western Year: AD 1809
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:362:s0207
Source Date: Text: 道光二年 · Western Year: AD 1822
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:362:s0217

Family

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Child of Mother of Cha Chonghua (查崇華母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
Child of Father of Cha Chonghua (查崇華父)
Kinship Term: orphaned / 孤 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Career and standing

Label: copyist for hire / 傭書
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0201
Label: acting subprefect of Tamsui / 台灣淡水同知 · Action: acting · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十七年 · Western Year: AD 1812
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0209
Label: Feng-Bin intendant / 鳳邠道 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二年 · Western Year: AD 1822
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0217
Label: Nan-Ru-Guang intendant / 南汝光道 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0214
Label: subprefect / 通判 · Action: purchased
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0206
Label: peacock feather / 花翎 · Action: bestowed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十四年 · Western Year: AD 1809
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0207

Places and affiliations

Place: Jing County, Anhui / 安徽涇縣
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0200

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: captor · Action: captured Liu Song · Other Person Id: Liu Song (劉松)
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0215
Kind: logistics · Role: supply-officer · Action: Jiayuguan supplies · Other Person Id: Jahangir Khoja (張格爾)
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0218, qingshigao:362:s0219
Kind: legal · Role: investigator · Action: uncovered Lin Qing plot · Other Person Id: Gao Mada (高媽達)
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0210, qingshigao:362:s0211
Kind: diplomatic · Role: negotiator · Action: won Zhu Wo surrender · Other Person Id: Zhu Wo (硃渥)
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0208
Relation: aide-to · Person Id: Kui Lun (魁倫)
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0202

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 362Volume 362 Biographies 149: Fang Ji, Zhu Erhan, Yang Hu, Liao Yin, Chen Changqi, Zhu Ergenge, Cha Chonghua · 8 passages

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方積硃爾漢楊頀廖寅陳昌齊硃爾賡額查崇華方積，字有堂，安徽定遠人。 Fang Ji, Zhu Erhan, Yang Hu, Liao Yin, Chen Changqi, Zhu Ergenge, and Cha Chonghua. Fang Ji, whose style name was Youtang, came from Dingyuan in Anhui.

查崇華，字九峰，安徽涇縣人。 Cha Chonghua, whose style name was Jiufeng, came from Jing County in Anhui.

崇華名聞於時。 Chonghua's reputation spread far and wide.

嘉慶十四年，海盜蔡牽平，以功賜花翎。 In Jiaqing 14 the pirate Cai Qian was pacified, and Chonghua received the peacock feather for his service.

硃渥欲歸誠，未決，崇華隻身至海舶，諭以禍福，遂受降。 Zhu Wo wanted to surrender but hesitated. Chonghua went alone to his vessel, explained the consequences of his choice, and won his submission.

崇華牒請奏聞，大吏以其語不經，置之，僅以傳教罪誅高媽達。 Chonghua urgently memorialized the court, but senior officials dismissed his report as incredible and executed Gao Mada only for illegal preaching.

自川、楚軍興，將吏習於糜費，崇華一主覈實，以內地馬駝出關不耐寒苦，關外有台站應付，長僱徒糜芻秣，悉罷之，節帑甚鉅。 Since the Sichuan and Hubei campaigns, officers had grown used to waste. Chonghua insisted on strict accounting: interior horses and camels could not survive the cold beyond the pass, frontier stations could supply transport, and long-term hiring that squandered fodder was abolished, saving enormous sums from the treasury.

查崇華預發林清逆謀，為疆臣所格； Cha Chonghua had forewarned of Lin Qing's conspiracy but was overruled by provincial governors;