Fan Chengmo 范承謨

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · qingshigao:252:s0186

Roles

• Administrator
• Official

Family

• Child of Fan Wencheng (范文程)
  Kinship Role: second-son
  Kinship Role: father
• Parent of Fan Shichong (范時崇)
  Kinship Role: father
  Kinship Role: son
• Child of Mother of Fan Chengmo
  Kinship Role: son
  Kinship Role: mother
• Kin of Fan Chengpu (范承譜)
  Kinship Role: younger-cousin

• Kinship Role: household-and-retainers · Description: fifty-three retainers, relatives, clerks, and runners died with him · Count: 53
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0094

Origins and identity

• Value: Han Bannerman · Banner: Bordered Yellow Banner
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0052

Career and standing

• Label: governor / governor-general / 督撫 · Action: held
  Strongly inferred · qingshigao:252:s0184, qingshigao:252:s0186
• Title: Junior Tutor to the Heir Apparent · Posthumous: true
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0099
• Title: Minister of War · Posthumous: true
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0099
• Title: academician of the Secretariat
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0054
• Title: compiler, Hongwen Academy
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0053
• Title: governor of Zhejiang · Western Year: 1668
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0055
• Title: governor-general of Fujian · Western Year: 1672
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0071
• 忠貞
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0099
• 忠貞炳日
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0102
• Status: martyrdom · Action: died-for-loyalty
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0186

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
  Strongly inferred · qingshigao:252:s0184, qingshigao:252:s0186
• Place: same city as Jingzhong / 同城 · Relation: resided-in
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0186

Learning and skills

• Credential: jinshi · Western Year: 1652
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0053

Works and attributed material

• Description: composed poetry and prose in charcoal on his prison walls
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0086, qingshigao:252:s0087
• Work: Collected Writings from the Prison Walls
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0103
• Description: proposed conversion and phased collection of grain taxes with disaster remissions
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0060, qingshigao:252:s0061, qingshigao:252:s0062
• Kind: commentary · Role: subject · Statement: historian's judgment on martyrdom under rebel pressure
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0186, qingshigao:252:s0188, qingshigao:252:s0189
• Speech: The rebels will soon face execution—I will break their spirits first!
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0084

Events and relationships

• Kind: biographical-event · Action: organized flood and famine relief in four Zhejiang prefectures
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0059
• Kind: political · Role: loyalist-official · Action: pressed-in-same-city-as · Other Person Id: Geng Jingzhong (耿精忠) · Outcome: died as martyr; no other recourse
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0186
• Kind: biographical-event · Action: surveyed flood-damaged land and requested major tax exemptions
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0057, qingshigao:252:s0058
• Kind: biographical-event · Action: warned against troop reductions after detecting Geng Jingzhong's disloyalty
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0076
• Relation: opposed-to · Person Id: Geng Jingzhong (耿精忠)
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0186

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: fierce loyalty that inspired troops and struck fear into the rebels; death not in vain · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0188, qingshigao:252:s0189