Dai Zongqian (戴宗騫)

Overview

The translated histories identify Dai Zongqian as a general, military officer, official, and scholar. This record brings together 19 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Dai Zongqian	戴宗騫	Dai Zongqian
Surname	Dai	戴	Dai
Personal name	Dai Zongqian	戴宗騫	Dài Zōngqiān
Courtesy	Xiaohou	孝侯	Xiaohou
Given	Zongqian	宗騫	Zongqian

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0110
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:462:s0026

Roles

General
Military Officer
Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Manner: suicide-by-poison · Place: Weihai / Liugong Island / 威海 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十一年 · Western Year: AD 1895
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0149

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 光緒二十一年 · Western Year: AD 1895
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:460:s0139, qingshigao:460:s0149
Source Date: Text: 光緒二十年夏 · Western Year: AD 1894
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0134
Source Date: Text: 光緒八年 · Western Year: AD 1882
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0126
Source Date: Text: 光緒六年 · Western Year: AD 1880
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0119
Source Date: Text: 光緒十七年 · Western Year: AD 1891
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0132
Source Date: Text: 光緒十三年 · Western Year: AD 1887
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0129
Source Date: Text: 同治初 · Western Year: AD 1862
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0112
Source Date: Text: 同治十一年 · Western Year: AD 1872
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0113
Source Date: Text: 威海之役 · Western Year: AD 1895
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:462:s0026, qingshigao:462:s0025

Family

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Child of Mother of Dai Zongqian (戴宗騫母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: army commander / 陸軍統將 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0026
Label: Vice Minister of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices / 太常寺卿 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0151
Label: circuit intendant / 道員 · Action: promoted-to
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0132
Label: prefect / 知府 · Action: promoted-to
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0125
Label: magistrate / 知縣 · Action: reached
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0112

Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:462:s0026
Place: Shouzhou, Anhui / 安徽壽州
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0110
Place: Weihai / 威海 · Relation: defended
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0128, qingshigao:460:s0134

Learning and skills

Credential: licentiate / 廩生 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0111

Works and attributed material

Work: Record of Coastal Garrison Farms / 海上屯田志 · Relation: author
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0118
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Quoted: true
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0115, qingshigao:460:s0116
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Other Person Id: Ding Ruchang (丁汝昌)
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0146
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0121
Kind: telegram · Role: author · Other Person Id: Li Hongzhang (李鴻章)
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0026

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: accuser · Action: accused-Ruchang-of-treason · Other Person Id: Ding Ruchang (丁汝昌)
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0026
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: executed · Other Person Id: Wang Lin (王林)
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0122
Kind: legal · Role: accused · Action: falsely-accused-by · Other Person Id: Liu Chaopei (劉超佩) · Authority Person Id: Li Bingheng (李秉衡)
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0140
Relation: agreed-mutual-support-with · Person Id: Liu Chaopei (劉超佩)
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0137
Relation: accompanied · Person Id: Wu Dacheng (吳大澂)
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0119
Relation: client-of · Person Id: Li Hongzhang (李鴻章)
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0112

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 460Volume 460 Biographies 247: Zuo Baogui Younger Brother: Bao Xian, Yong Shan, Deng Shichang, Liu Buchan, Lin Taiceng, Dai Zongqian · 18 passages

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左寶貴弟寶賢等永山鄧世昌劉步蟾林泰曾等戴宗騫 Zuo Baogui (and his younger brother Bao Xian and others), Yong Shan, Deng Shichang, Liu Buchan, Lin Taiceng and others, and Dai Zongqian

戴宗騫，字孝侯，安徽壽州人。 Dai Zongqian, styled Xiaohou, was a native of Shouzhou in Anhui.

少以廩生治鄉團，捻酋苗沛霖數陷州，宗騫潛結各圩寨以攜貳其黨。 As a young licentiate he organized local militia; when the Nian chieftain Miao Peilin repeatedly seized the prefecture, Zongqian secretly won over the surrounding stockaded villages and turned Miao's own followers against him.

宗騫上書，略謂：「津沽為九河故道，漳、衛交匯，水菑衍溢。 Zongqian submitted a memorial arguing, in brief: "The Tianjin area lies in the old channel of the Nine Rivers, where the Zhang and Wei meet and floods spread without check.

光緒六年，中俄失和，吳大澂被命佐吉林邊務，奏宗騫自隨。 In the sixth year of Guangxu, when relations with Russia broke down, Wu Dacheng was ordered to assist in Jilin border affairs and memorialized that Zongqian accompany him.

大澂兼攝屯政，宗騫為治道路，築砲台，設江防，徙直、東流民，假予產業，分部護之。 Wu also took charge of frontier colonization; Zongqian built roads, erected forts, organized river defenses, resettled refugees from Zhili and the east, lent them land and tools, and posted guards to protect them by district.

塞外灌莽千里，馬賊為民患，宗騫曰：「此屯政蠹也！」 Beyond the passes scrubland stretched for a thousand li, and mounted bandits preyed on the settlers; Zongqian said, "This is the ruin of our colonization work!"

遭母憂歸，鴻章疏留，宗騫請終制，弗許。 When his mother died he went home to mourn; Hongzhang memorialized to keep him in service; Zongqian asked to complete the full mourning period but was refused.

時宗騫守北岸，分統劉超佩守南岸，宗騫與約，寇至互相應。 Zongqian held the north bank while sub-commander Liu Chaopei held the south; they agreed to support each other when the enemy came.

宗騫往援，而超佩蹌踉遁，三台拱手讓敵，反訴巡撫李秉衡，誣宗騫背約。 Zongqian went to help, but Chaopei fled in disorder and surrendered three batteries without a fight; he then reported to Governor Li Bingheng, falsely accusing Zongqian of breaking their agreement.

宗騫抗辯，願復三台贖罪。 Zongqian defended himself and offered to retake the three batteries to atone for the loss.