Cheng Enze (程恩澤) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Cheng Enze as an official, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 7 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	Cheng Enze	程恩澤	Cheng Enze
Surname	Cheng	程	Cheng
Courtesy	Chunhai	春海	Chunhai
Given	Enze	恩澤	Enze

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0129

Roles

Official
Scholar
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十七年 · Western Year: AD 1837
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:376:s0152, qingshigao:376:s0133

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 1823
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:376:s0136, qingshigao:376:s0133
Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 1826
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:376:s0139, qingshigao:376:s0133
Source Date: Text: 十一年 · Western Year: AD 1831
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:376:s0143, qingshigao:376:s0133
Source Date: Text: 十七年 · Western Year: AD 1837
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:376:s0152, qingshigao:376:s0133
Source Date: Text: 十四年 · Western Year: AD 1834
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:376:s0150, qingshigao:376:s0133
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十六年 · Western Year: AD 1811
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0132
Source Date: Text: 道光元年 · Western Year: AD 1821
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0133

Family

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Child of Cheng Changqi (昌期)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Mother of Cheng Enze
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Parent of Cheng Dewei (德威)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: educational commissioner of Guizhou / 貴州學政 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 1823
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:376:s0136, qingshigao:376:s0133
Label: educational commissioner of Hunan / 湖南學政 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 1826
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:376:s0139, qingshigao:376:s0133
Label: vice minister of Works / 工部侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十四年 · Western Year: AD 1834
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:376:s0150, qingshigao:376:s0133
Label: Southern Study Hall duty / 南書房 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光元年 · Western Year: AD 1821
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0133
Label: compiler of the Spring and Autumn Zuo Commentary / 春秋左傳纂修官 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0141
Label: compiler / 編修 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0132
Label: director of the Directorate of Education / 國子監祭酒 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0140
Label: Grand Secretariat academician / 內閣學士 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0149
Label: Hanlin bachelor / 庶吉士 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0132
Label: Upper Study Hall duty / 上書房 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0148
Label: Southern Study Hall duty / 南書房 · Action: restored · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十一年 · Western Year: AD 1831
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:376:s0143, qingshigao:376:s0133
Label: Ministry of Revenue / 戶部 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十四年 · Western Year: AD 1834
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:376:s0150, qingshigao:376:s0133
Status: mourning-leave · Action: entered
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0142

Places and affiliations

Place: She County, Anhui / 安徽歙縣
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0129

Learning and skills

Subject: classics / 經 · Teacher Person Id: Ling Tingkan (凌廷堪)
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0131
Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十六年 · Western Year: AD 1811
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0132
Skill: astronomy, geography, divination, medicine / 天象地輿壬遁太乙脈經 · Level: exhaustive
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0153
Skill: broad learning in Six Arts and Nine Schools / 六藝九流 · Level: expert
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0153

Works and attributed material

Work: collected writings / 詩文集 · Relation: author
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0157
Work: Investigation of Place Names in the Strategies of the Warring States / 國策地名考 · Relation: author
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0157
Work: Yue Ke's Five Classics / 岳珂五經 · Relation: reprinter
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0137
Kind: imperial-speech · Role: addressee · Other Person Id: Daoguang Emperor (道光帝) · Extent: s0133, s0134
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0133, qingshigao:376:s0134

Events and relationships

Kind: examination · Role: examiner · Action: hoped-to-place · Other Person Id: Zeng Zhao (曾釗)
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0145, qingshigao:376:s0146
Kind: examination · Role: chief-examiner · Action: presided-Guangdong-exam
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0144
Kind: examination · Role: chief-examiner · Action: presided-Sichuan-exam
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0135
Kind: economic · Role: promoter · Action: urged-chestnut-silkworm-raising
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0136
Relation: patron-of · Person Id: Zheng Zhen (鄭珍)
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0138
Relation: teacher-of · Person Id: Prince Hui (惠親王)
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0148
Relation: student-of · Person Id: Ling Tingkan (凌廷堪)
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0131

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: in fame and rank next to Ruan Yuan; fit to succeed him · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Assessment: poetry and classical prose profound and elegant · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0155
Assessment: unrivaled in breadth of learning; bore clear reputation · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0196

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 376Volume 376 Biographies 163: Xin Congyi, Zhang Lin, Gu Gao, Shen Weiqiao, Zhu Wei, Cheng Enze, Wu Jie · 7 passages

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程恩澤，字春海，安徽歙縣人。 Cheng Enze, whose style was Chunhai, came from She County in Anhui.

恩澤勤學嗜奇，受經於江都凌廷堪，廷堪勗之曰：「學必天人並至，博而能精，所成乃大。」 Enze studied diligently and loved the recondite. He studied the classics under Ling Tingkan of Jiangdu, who exhorted him: "Learning must unite Heaven and man, be broad yet refined—only then is one's achievement great."

鄭珍有異才，特優異之，餉以學，卒為碩儒。 Zheng Zhen possessed unusual talent. Enze favored him especially, supported his studies, and Zheng in the end became a great scholar.

釗未與試，榜發，大失望。 Zeng did not sit for the examination. When the list was published, Enze was deeply disappointed.

恩澤博聞強識，於六藝九流皆深思心知其意，天象、地輿、壬遁、太乙、脈經莫不窮究。 Enze was broadly learned with a powerful memory. Of the Six Arts and Nine Schools he pondered deeply until he knew their meaning by heart. Celestial phenomena, geography, renda divination, taiyi numerology, and medical classics—none escaped exhaustive study.

時乾、嘉宿儒多徂謝，惟大學士阮元為士林尊仰，恩澤名位亞於元，為足繼之。 By then many elder scholars of the Qianlong and Jiaqing eras had passed away. Only Grand Secretary Ruan Yuan still commanded the scholarly world's respect, and Enze in fame and rank stood next to Ruan, fit to succeed him.

論曰：宣宗最重文學廉謹之臣，辛從益直言獻納，張鱗廉介絕俗，沈維鐈服膺理學，程恩澤博物冠時，皆負清望。 The commentary states: Emperor Xuanzong most valued literary, incorrupt, and careful ministers. Xin Congyi spoke frankly in counsel, Zhang Lin was upright beyond the common run, Shen Weiqiao embraced Neo-Confucian learning, and Cheng Enze was unrivaled in breadth of learning—all enjoyed clear reputations.