Dahai (達海) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Dahai as an official, scholar, and translator. This record brings together 10 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	Dahai	達海	Dahai
Posthumous	Wencheng	文成	Wencheng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:472:s0093

Roles

Official
Scholar
Translator

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 太宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1627 · End: AD 1643
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Source Date: Text: 康熙九年 · Western Year: AD 1670
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Career and standing

Label: stele inscribed with wen / 賜文立碑 · Action: bestowed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 康熙九年 · Western Year: AD 1670
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Label: posthumous name Wencheng / 諡文成 · Action: bestowed
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Places and affiliations

Place: tomb east of Mukden's outer gate / 盛京東門外塋墓 · Relation: buried-at
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Learning and skills

Skill: creation and refinement of the Manchu national script / 創定國書 · Level: foundational
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Works and attributed material

Work: translations of the classics and histories / 繙譯經史 · Relation: translator
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Events and relationships

Relation: served-under · Person Id: Taizong (太宗)
Explicit · qingshigao:472:s0095, qingshigao:472:s0104

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 472Volume 472 Biographies 259: Lu Runxiang, Shi Xu, Yi Ketan, Liang Dingfen, Xu Fang, Lao Naixuan, Shen Cengzhi · 10 passages

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有請達海從祀文廟者，伊克坦以達海創定國書，繙譯經史，有功聖教，允宜附祀，即為代奏，略言：「學官立於漢京，而配享實始於唐代，宋、元以來，迭有增祀，大率以闡明聖學，有功經訓為斷。 When a petition asked that Dahai be enshrined in the Confucian temple, Yi Ketan argued that Dahai had devised the national script and translated the classics, thus serving the Sage's teaching, and deserved collateral sacrifice; he memorialized on his behalf, noting briefly: "School officials dated to Han times but temple collateral sacrifice began in the Tang, and since Song and Yuan additions had generally honored those who expounded the Sage's learning and served the classics.

夫國書字體，創自文臣額爾德尼及噶蓋等，而仰承聖意，匯集大成，詳定頒行者，實唯儒臣達海。 The script itself had been devised by Erdeni, Gagai, and others, but it was the Confucian official Dahai who, following the imperial will, brought the system together, refined it, and promulgated it.

達海以肇造貞元之佐，擅閎通著述之才，歷相兩朝，瞻言百里。 Dahai had been a founding assistant of the dynasty, possessed broad literary talent, served as chief minister under two emperors, and his counsel carried great weight.

崇德十年，既蒙賜諡文成，康熙九年，复奉賜文立碑，隆德報功，永受恩澤。 In the tenth year of Chongde he was granted the posthumous title Wencheng; in the ninth year of Kangxi a stele bearing the character wen was erected in his honor—virtue exalted, merit rewarded, his name forever under imperial grace.

旋有學士阿理瑚奏請從祀文廟，禮臣復奏，以為創造國書，一藝之長，不當從祀，未經議準。 Soon after, Academician Arihu petitioned for Dahai's enshrinement in the Confucian temple; the Board of Rites replied that devising the national script was excellence in but one art and did not warrant collateral sacrifice, and the request was never approved.

查達海詳定國書字體，實禀太宗指示而成。 On inquiry, Dahai's refinement of the national script had in truth been carried out under Taizong's direction.

達海於聖經有表章之力，於後學有津逮之功。 Dahai had elucidated the sacred classics and opened a path for generations of students who came after.

揆諸古者釋奠祭師之誼，達海應得附祀，核與漢儒許慎從祀之例亦屬相符。 Measured by the ancient rite of the libation sacrifice honoring teachers, Dahai deserves collateral sacrifice; compared with the precedent of the Han scholar Xu Shen, the case is entirely in accord.

仰懇俯準達海附祀文廟，並請敕建專祠於盛京，以昭矜式。 I humbly beg that Dahai be granted collateral sacrifice in the Confucian temple, and that an order be issued to erect a dedicated shrine at Mukden, that all may have a model to revere.

查盛京東門外尚有達海塋墓，榛莽荒蕪，碣碑剝落，並請敕下所司修治看護，用示朝廷崇尚實學、藎念儒臣之至意。」 Inquiry shows that east of Mukden's outer gate Dahai's tomb still stands, choked with weeds, its stele flaking away; I also beg that the responsible offices be ordered to repair and guard it, that the court's esteem for practical learning and its deep regard for Confucian ministers may be made plain."