Dai Zi 戴梓

Other names

Career and standing

• Hanlin Academician Reader-in-Waiting 翰林院侍講
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 197
• circuit intendant (by dispatch) 道員劄付
  Granted
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 196
• Entered
  Exile · At Northeast (Guandong) 關東
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 201
• pardoned and permitted to return home 赦還家
  Pardon · Amnestied
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 202
• dismissed amid slander 褫職
  Dismissal · Stripped of office
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 201

Places and affiliations

• Polity Qing 清 · Relation Biographical subject
  Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 2
• Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passages 195, 197
• At Qiantang, Zhejiang 浙江錢塘
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 193
• At Hall of Mental Cultivation 養心殿 · Relation Reassigned to
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 198
• At Southern Library 南書房 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 198
• At Tieling 鐵嶺 · Relation Settled and registered
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 202

Learning and skills

• Skill mechanical inventiveness / firearms 機悟、火器 · Level from-youth
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 194
• Skill literary composition 能文 · Level tested-and-approved
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 197
• Skill astronomy and mathematics 天文算法 · Level versed
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 199

Works and attributed material

• Correct Meaning of the Pitch-pipes 律呂正義
  Relation Compiler participant
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 199
• poem on the spring morning court audience 春日早朝詩
  Poem · Author
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 197

Events and relationships

• Built mother and child explosive cannon
  Technical · Maker · Named Item Weiyuan General 威遠將軍
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 207
• Cannon used against
  AD 1690 to AD 1697 親征噶爾丹 · Military · Weapon provider · With Galdan (噶爾丹)
  Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 208
• Copied coiled gut air rifle tribute and gifted ten
  Technical · Craftsman · Counterpart Western envoy
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 206
• Followed army as commoner
  AD 1662 to AD 1676 康熙初 · Military · Volunteer · With Jieshu (杰書) · At Zhejiang 浙江
  Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 195
• Fought and sued
  Legal · Litigant · With Chen Hongxun (陳弘勳)
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 200
• Presented linked bead musket method
  Military technical · Inventor · With Jieshu (杰書)
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 195

Assessments and attributes

• Item coiled-gut air rifle copies 蟠腸鳥槍 · Relation Reproduced by order
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 206
• Item linked-bead / repeating firelock 連珠銃 · Relation Invented
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passages 203-205
• Item self-made firearms 自製火器 · Relation Made
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 194
• Item Weiyuan General cannon 威遠將軍 · Relation Made · maker's official title engraved on breech
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 207

Source notes

• repeating firelock held twenty-eight rounds before reload; design matched Western machine-gun principle but was not widely adopted; still extant in Qianlong era
  凡二十八發乃重貯；法與西洋機關槍合，當時未通用；乾隆中猶存
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passages 204-205