Qing · Official

Chengnian 誠年

Died AD 1900

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Chengnian was an official.

Life and dates

Death

AD 1900 七月二十一日巳刻
Suicide by well
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 495, passage 44

Attested activity

AD 1900 七月二十一日巳刻
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 495, passage 44

Career and standing

Ningshou Palace Vice Director 寧壽宮員外郎
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 495, passage 44
posthumous honors and pensions 贈卹
Granted · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Kungang (崑岡)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 495, passage 57

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 495, passage 44
At duty room outside the Gate of Accumulated Joy 斂禧門外值房 · Relation Died at
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 495, passage 44

Events and relationships

Sealed palace halls
AD 1900 七月二十一日巳刻 · Ritual · Actor
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 495, passage 44

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 495Volume 495 Biographies 282: Loyal and Righteous 9 · 1 passage

死事者：寧壽宮員外郎誠年、筆帖式福臻在內值宿，七月二十一日巳刻，聞兩宮西狩，即赴各殿封鎖，至斂禧門外值房投井死。 Among those who died in service were Ningshou Palace Vice Director Chengnian and Clerk Fuzhen, who were on night duty inside the palace. On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, at the si hour, upon hearing that the emperor and empress dowager had fled west, they went at once to seal the palace halls and then cast themselves into a well at the duty room outside the Gate of Accumulated Joy.