Gu Chun (顧蓴) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Gu Chun as a historian, official, scholar, and teacher. This record brings together 11 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	Gu Chun	顧蓴	Gu Chun
Given name	Chun	蓴	Chun
Surname	Gu	顧	Gu
Personal name	Gu Chun	顧蓴	Gu Chun
Courtesy name	Nanya	南雅	Nanya

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:377:s0028

Roles

Historian
Official
Scholar
Teacher

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十三年 · Western Year: AD 1833
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0059

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 嘉慶七年 · Western Year: AD 1802
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0029
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十七年 · Western Year: AD 1812
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0030
Source Date: Text: 道光十一年 · Western Year: AD 1831
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0053
Source Date: Text: 道光十三年 · Western Year: AD 1833
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0059

Career and standing

Label: Compiler / 編修 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶七年 · Western Year: AD 1802
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0029
Label: Hanlin bachelor / 庶吉士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶七年 · Western Year: AD 1802
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0029
Label: Daily lecture official / 日講官 · Action: appointed
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Label: Educational commissioner of Yunnan / 雲南學政 · Action: appointed
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Label: Compiler / 編修 · Action: demoted
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0043
Label: Expositor of the Hanlin Academy / 侍講學士 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十五年 · Western Year: AD 1820
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0036
Label: Reader-in-waiting / 侍讀 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十七年 · Western Year: AD 1812
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Label: Vice commissioner of the Office of Transmission / 通政司副使 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十一年 · Western Year: AD 1831
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Label: Right vice-director of the Secretariat / 右中允 · Action: promoted
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0047
Label: Expositor of the Hanlin Academy / 侍講學士 · Action: restored
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0048

Places and affiliations

Place: Wu County, Jiangsu / 江蘇吳縣
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Place: Yunnan / 雲南 · Relation: posted-to
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Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶七年 · Western Year: AD 1802
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Works and attributed material

Work: Biography of Heshen / 和珅傳 · Relation: author
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0044
Kind: memorial · Role: author
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0049, qingshigao:377:s0050, qingshigao:377:s0051, qingshigao:377:s0054, qingshigao:377:s0055, qingshigao:377:s0056

Events and relationships

Kind: scholarly · Role: author · Action: drafted Heshen biography later altered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1796 · End: AD 1820
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0044, qingshigao:377:s0045, qingshigao:377:s0046
Kind: political · Role: memorialist · Action: warned about Henan corruption before Huaxian rebellion · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十七年 · Western Year: AD 1812
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0031, qingshigao:377:s0032

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: proposals especially outstanding · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0142
Assessment: stern and upright; devoted to moral principle · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0058

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 377Volume 377 Biographies 164: Bao Guixing, Gu Chun, Wu Xiaoming, Chen Hong, E Mushune, Xu Faji · 11 passages

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鮑桂星顧吳孝銘陳鴻鄂木順額徐法績 Bao Guixing, Gu Chun, Wu Xiaoming, Chen Hong, E Mushune, and Xu Faji

顧蓴，字南雅，江蘇吳縣人。 Gu Chun, whose courtesy name was Nanya, came from Wu County in Jiangsu.

蓴謂貴介不宜與聞樞要，請收回成命。 Chun argued that men of privileged birth should not be admitted to confidential state business and asked that the concession be revoked.

左都御史松筠出為熱河都統，蓴上疏，謂松筠正人，宜留置左右，失上意，降編修，九歲不調。 When Left Censor-in-Chief Songyun was posted out as commander of Rehe, Chun memorialized that Songyun was a man of integrity who should be kept close to the throne. The memorial displeased the emperor; Chun was demoted to compiler and went nine years without a new appointment.

先是嘉慶中蓴在史館，撰和珅傳，及進禦，經他人竄改，和珅曾數因事被高宗詰責，並未載入傳。 Earlier, during the Jiaqing reign, Chun had been in the Historiography Office and drafted Heshen's biography. By the time it reached the throne others had altered it, omitting the many occasions on which Emperor Gaozong had censured Heshen for misconduct.

大臣以蓴原稿進，仁宗深是之，而奪竄改者官。 Senior ministers submitted Chun's original draft. Emperor Renzong strongly endorsed it and dismissed the officials who had altered the text.

宣宗一日閱實錄至此事，嘉蓴直筆，因言前保留松筠，必非阿私，特擢蓴右中允。 One day Emperor Daoguang, reading the Veritable Records, came upon the episode and praised Chun's honest historiography. Saying that Chun's earlier defense of Songyun could not have been sycophancy, he specially promoted Chun to right vice-director of the Secretariat.

時回疆張格爾亂甫定，蓴疏：「請於喀什噶爾沿邊增重兵，以控制安集延，杜回人窺伺； At that time the Zhang Ge'er rebellion in the Western Regions had only just been suppressed. Chun memorialized: "Along the Kashgar frontier additional troops should be stationed to control Andijan and forestall Muslim probing;

湖南北、江南、江西、浙江大水，蓴疏言：「饑民與鹽梟糾合易生事，鹽梟不盡去，終為巨患。 When severe floods hit Hunan, Hubei, the lower Yangzi, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang, Chun memorialized: "Hungry refugees who ally with salt smugglers can quickly turn violent. Unless smuggling rings are broken up, they will become a lasting scourge.

蓴性嚴正，尚氣節，晚益負時望，從遊者眾，類能砥勵自立，滇士尤歸之，其秀異者至京師多就問業焉。 Chun was stern and upright, devoted to moral principle. In later life his reputation only grew, and a large circle of disciples learned self-discipline under him. Yunnan scholars revered him above all; their most talented men, once in Beijing, often sought him out for guidance.

論曰：鮑桂星、顧蓴以鯁直獲譴，卒見諒於明主，蓴之建白，尤卓卓矣。 The commentators say: Bao Guixing and Gu Chun were punished for blunt integrity, yet in the end won understanding from an enlightened sovereign. Chun's proposals were especially outstanding.