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Overview The translated histories identify Chen Pengnian as an administrator and official. This record brings together 12 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names Type English Chinese Pinyin
Personal
Chen Pengnian
陳鵬年
Chen Pengnian
Surname
Chen
陳
Chen
Personal name
Chen Pengnian
陳鵬年
Chen Pengnian
Given name
Pengnian
鵬年
Pengnian
Identity
Historicity Historical
Identification Named
Sex Uncertain Life and dates Death Attested activity Career and standing Label: acting provincial treasurer / 署布政使Action: acting
Label: Grand Canal governor / 河道總督Action: held
Label: prefect of Jiangning / 江寧知府Action: held
Label: prefect of Suzhou / 蘇州知府Action: restored
Status: death-sentence ·
Action: sentenced ·
Authority Person Id: A Shan (阿山) References in the histories Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 278 Volume 278 Biographies 65: Mu Tianyan, A Shan, Ga Li · 10 passages
四十四年，疏劾江寧知府陳鵬年貪酷，並以妓樓改建講堂，凟聖諭，大不敬。
In Kangxi 44 he impeached Jiangning Prefect Chen Pengnian for greed and cruelty, and for converting a brothel into a lecture hall—profaning the sage's teaching, a grave offense.
命會桑額及河道總督張鵬翮集讞，坐鵬年罪至斬，上特命來京，事具鵬年傳。
He was ordered to join Sang E and Canal Director Zhang Penghe in judgment; Pengnian was sentenced to death, but the emperor ordered him brought to Beijing instead—the full account is in Pengnian's biography.
其失民心，獨劾陳鵬年一事耳。」
He lost popular support only over impeaching Chen Pengnian."
知府陳鵬年初為總督阿山劾罷，上復命守蘇州；
Prefect Chen Pengnian had first been impeached and dismissed by Governor-General A Shan; the emperor restored him to Suzhou;
鵬年素伉直，忤噶禮。
Pengnian had always been upright and outspoken and clashed with Ga Li.
噶禮續劾宜思恭虧帑，又論糧道賈樸建關開河皆有所侵蝕，遂及鵬年覈報不實，鵬年復坐罷。
Ga Li continued impeaching Yi Sigong for treasury shortfalls, charged Grain Intendant Jia Pu with embezzling on canal works, and extended the charge to Pengnian for false verification; Pengnian was dismissed again.
噶禮复密疏鵬年虎丘詩怨望，上不為動。
Ga Li also sent a secret memorial claiming Pengnian's Tiger Hill poem showed resentment; the emperor was unmoved.
即如陳鵬年稍有聲譽，噶禮欲害之，摘虎丘詩有悖謬語，朕閱其詩，初無他意。
Even Chen Pengnian, who had some reputation, Ga Li tried to ruin by seizing on irreverent words in his Tiger Hill poem—I read the poem and saw no ill intent.
鵬年初扼於阿山，繼挫於噶禮，皆欲中以危法，抑又甚矣。
Pengnian was first blocked by A Shan, then crushed by Ga Li; both tried to trap him with capital charges—an even graver wrong.
幸賴聖祖仁明，隴其復起，鵬年致大用，伯行亦終獲全。
Fortunately the Sage Ancestor was benevolent and clear-sighted: Longqi was restored, Pengnian rose to high office, and Boxing ultimately survived unscathed.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 300 Volume 300 Biographies 87: Chen Qi Yuan, He Shijian, Tang Jizu, Ma Weihan, Yu Dian, Wang Yezi, Liu Erwei · 2 passages