Chu Pengling (初彭齡)

Overview

The translated histories identify Chu Pengling as an administrator, judge, official, and scholar. This record brings together 21 passages from 5 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Chu Pengling	初彭齡	Chu Pengling
Title	Censor	御史
Personal name	Chu Pengling	初彭齡	Chu Pengling
Personal name	Chu Pengling	初彭齡
Alternate	Pengling	彭齡	Pengling
Title	Vice Minister	侍郎
Courtesy	Yiyuan	頤園	Yiyuan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Administrator
Judge
Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光五年 · Western Year: AD 1825
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十六年 · Western Year: AD 1771
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Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十五年 · Western Year: AD 1780
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Source Date: Text: 五十五年 · Western Year: AD 1790
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Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十七年 · Western Year: AD 1812
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Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十八年 · Western Year: AD 1813
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Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十年 · Western Year: AD 1805
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Source Date: Text: 嘉慶四年 · Western Year: AD 1799
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Source Date: Text: 道光五年 · Western Year: AD 1825
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Source Date: Text: 道光元年 · Western Year: AD 1821
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Family

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Child of Father of Chu Pengling
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Mother of Chu Pengling
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Kinship Role: parents · Count: 2 · Note: 親老 / parents aged
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Career and standing

Label: Governor of Yunnan / 雲南巡撫 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶四年 · Western Year: AD 1799
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Label: Minister of war / 兵部尚書 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 道光元年 · Western Year: AD 1821
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Label: Censor / 御史 · Action: held
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Label: governor of Anhui / 安徽巡撫 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:353:s0046

Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
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Place: Laiyang, Shandong / 山東萊陽
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Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十五年 · Western Year: AD 1780
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Credential: provincial graduate / 舉人 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十六年 · Western Year: AD 1771
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:355:s0057

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Chu Pengling (初彭齡)
Explicit · qingshigao:355:s0065, qingshigao:355:s0066, qingshigao:355:s0067, qingshigao:355:s0068, qingshigao:355:s0069, qingshigao:355:s0070, qingshigao:355:s0071, qingshigao:355:s0072, qingshigao:355:s0073, qingshigao:355:s0074, qingshigao:355:s0075, qingshigao:355:s0076, qingshigao:355:s0077, qingshigao:355:s0078, qingshigao:355:s0079, qingshigao:355:s0080, qingshigao:355:s0115, qingshigao:355:s0116, qingshigao:355:s0117, qingshigao:355:s0118

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: impeacher · Action: impeached-Guangti · Other Person Id: Jin Guangti (金光悌)
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Kind: legal · Role: judge · Action: re-tried Zhang Dayou murder case · Other Person Id: Zhang Dayou (張大有) · Place: Shouzhou / 壽州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十一年 · Western Year: AD 1806
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:355:s0099, qingshigao:355:s0097

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: narrow and rash but clean government and integrity; kept good name · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:355:s0142

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 351Volume 351 Biographies 138: Shen Chu, Jin Shisong, Zou Bingtai, Dai Liankui, Wang Yixiu Son: Zong Cheng, Huang Yue · 1 passage

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既而有降革官捐复者二人，準駁不當，侍郎初彭齡論與不合，疏聞，上斥炳泰無定見，鐫級留任。 Later he mishandled two demoted officials seeking reinstatement by purchase; Vice Minister Chu Pengling disagreed, and the emperor rebuked Bingtai's inconsistency, demoted him one rank, and kept him on.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 352Volume 352 Biographies 139: Jiang Cheng, Jin Guangti, Zu Zhiwang, Han Feng · 1 passage

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江西舉人彭良馵為子賄買吏員執照，光悌與為姻親，御史初彭齡劾光悌瞻徇，坐降調，仍補刑部員外郎，留部覈辦秋審。 When Jiangxi graduate Peng Liangfu bought an official license for his son by bribery, Guangti, who was related to him by marriage, was impeached by Censor Chu Pengling for showing favor. He was demoted but kept on in the ministry as vice director to handle the autumn capital-case review.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 353Volume 353 Biographies 140: Da Chun | Son: Sa Bin Tu, Tie Bao Younger Brother: Yu Bao, He Ying, Jue Luo Gui Fang · 1 passage

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十年，擢兩江總督，命覆鞫安徽壽州武舉張大有妒姦毒斃族侄獄，蘇州知府週鍔受賄輕縱，及初彭齡為安徽巡撫，勘實置法。 In 1805 he was made governor-general of the Two Jiangs and ordered to reopen the case of Zhang Dayou, a military licentiate of Shouzhou in Anhui who had poisoned his clansman's son in a jealous adultery affair. The prefect of Suzhou, Zhou E, had taken bribes and let the matter go lightly until Governor Chu Pengling of Anhui verified the facts and punished those responsible.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 355Volume 355 Biographies 142: Kui Lun, Guang Xing, Chu Peng Ling · 17 passages

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魁倫廣興初彭齡 Kui Lun, Guang Xing, and Chu Pengling

上曰：「汝與初彭齡皆朕信任之人，何外廷怨恨乃爾？」 The emperor said, “You and Chu Pengling are both men I trust—why does the outer court resent you so bitterly?”

初彭齡，字頤園，山東萊陽人。 Chu Pengling, courtesy name Yiyuan, was a native of Laiyang in Shandong.

時總督富綱請罷官鹽，改歸民運民銷，詔下彭齡議。 Governor-General Fu Gang then asked to abolish government salt and shift to private transport and sale; an edict ordered Pengling to deliberate.

仁宗知彭齡無他，不欲因言事加重譴，詔斥諸臣所擬過當，有意杜言事者之口； The Renzong Emperor knew Pengling had no other fault and did not wish to punish memorializing itself; he issued an edict that the court’s sentence was excessive and aimed to silence critics.

又念彭齡親老，免遠謫，罷職家居。 Mindful too that Pengling’s parents were aged, he spared distant exile and dismissed him to live at home.

壽州武舉張大有因妒姦毒斃族侄張倫及僱工人，總督鐵保徇蘇州知府週鍔以自中蛇毒定讞，彭齡推鞫得實，詔嘉之，特予議敘，鐵保等降黜有差。 At Shouzhou the military licentiate Zhang Dayou, jealous over an affair, poisoned his clansman Zhang Lun and a hired laborer. Governor-General Tie Bao followed Suzhou Prefect Zhou E in ruling death by self-inflicted snakebite. Pengling re-examined the case and proved murder; the emperor praised him, granted a special merit citation, and Tie Bao and others were demoted in varying degrees.

河東道劉大觀揭劾初彭齡任性乖張，命回山西聽勘，以怒斥前撫金應琦及瞻徇知府硃錫庚，部議革職，詔寬之，降補鴻臚寺卿。 Hedong Circuit Intendant Liu Daguan filed charges accusing Chu Pengling of willfulness and perversity; he was ordered back to Shanxi to await investigation. For angrily denouncing former Governor Jin Yingqi and favoring Prefect Zhu Xigeng, the ministry recommended dismissal; the emperor was lenient and demoted him to superintendent of the Court of Imperial Entertainments.

時兩江總督百齡劾南河總督陳鳳翔誤啟智、禮兩壩，鳳翔已被譴，自訴辯，又訐百齡信任鹽巡道硃爾賡額督辦葦蕩失當，命彭齡、松筠往按。 Liangjiang Governor-General Bai Ling then impeached Southern Canal Governor-General Chen Fengxiang for wrongly opening the Zhi and Li barrages. Fengxiang had already been censured, argued in his defense, and accused Bai Ling of trusting Salt Patrol Commissioner Zhu Ergeng’e to oversee reed marshes improperly; Pengling and Songyun were ordered to investigate.

百齡於啟壩時實同畫諾，遂請薄懲百齡，而硃爾賡額被重譴，語詳百齡等傳。 Bai Ling had in fact co-signed the order to open the barrages; Pengling therefore asked for leniency toward Bai Ling while Zhu Ergeng’e received heavy punishment, as set forth in the biographies of Bai Ling and others.

尋巡撫張師誠回任，仍命彭齡會同清查。 Soon Governor Zhang Shicheng resumed his post, yet Pengling was still ordered to assist in the audit.

彭齡與百齡、師誠意不合，各擬章程，上詔斥其不能和衷。 Pengling clashed with Bai Ling and Shicheng; each drafted his own regulations, and the emperor rebuked them for failing to cooperate.

上以彭齡性褊急，嫉惡過嚴，斥其輕躁，降內閣學士，召回京。 Judging Pengling narrow and harsh in his hatred of evil, the emperor rebuked his rashness, demoted him to grand secretary of the Grand Secretariat, and recalled him to the capital.

至是彭齡疏陳豫兩耳重聽，代為乞假。 Pengling now memorialized that Mao Yu was deaf in both ears and begged leave on his behalf.

百齡复劾彭齡沉湎於酒，事一委茅豫，文致陳桂生之罪，私拆批摺，挾怨誣參； Bai Ling impeached Pengling again for drowning himself in wine, leaving all business to Mao Yu, fabricating Chen Guisheng’s crimes, opening memorials privately, and lodging charges out of spite.

上怒，褫彭齡職，停其母九旬恩賚，令閉門思過。 The emperor raged, stripped Pengling of office, withheld the ninetieth-birthday favor for his mother, and ordered him to remain at home in disgrace.

初彭齡雖亦褊躁，然實政清操，蹶而復起，克保令名，宜哉！ Chu Pengling, though narrow and rash as well, truly governed cleanly and held his integrity; he fell, rose again, and kept a good name to the end—as was only fitting!

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 362Volume 362 Biographies 149: Fang Ji, Zhu Erhan, Yang Hu, Liao Yin, Chen Changqi, Zhu Ergenge, Cha Chonghua · 1 passage

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時河督陳鳳翔為百齡所劾，自訴於朝，命尚書松筠、侍郎初彭齡按訊，牽及葦蕩事。 River Superintendent Chen Fengxiang, whom Bailin had impeached, appealed to the throne. Ministers Songyun and Vice Minister Chu Pengling were ordered to investigate, and the reed-marsh affair was dragged into the case.