Guo Jingchang (郭景昌)

Overview

The translated histories identify Guo Jingchang as a family member, scholar, servant, and student. This record brings together 3 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	Guo Jingchang	郭景昌	Guo Jingchang
Changed	Erbiao	爾標
Descriptive kinship	Father of Guo Xiu	郭琇之父
Descriptive kinship	Father of Guo Xiu	父	fu
Personal name	Guo Jingchang	郭景昌	Guo Jingchang
Personal	Jingchang	景昌

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:269:s0175
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:270:s0167

Roles

Family Member
Scholar
Servant
Student

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 康熙三十九年 · Western Year: AD 1700
Explicit · qingshigao:270:s0177
Source Date: Text: 明季 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1620 · End: AD 1644
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Source Date: Text: 明末 · Western Year: AD 1644
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:269:s0175

Family

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Sibling of Guo Eryin (郭爾印)
Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother
Parent of Guo Xiu (郭琇)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Status: enslavement · Action: was slave of Huang Zongchang
Explicit · qingshigao:269:s0175
Status: execution · Action: executed as rebel partisan
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Places and affiliations

Place: Jimo / 即墨 · Relation: native-of
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Learning and skills

Credential: licentiate / 諸生 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:270:s0177

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · qingshigao:269:s0175
From: Erbiao / 爾標 · To: Jingchang / 景昌
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References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 269Volume 269 Biographies 56: Suo Etu, Ming Zhu · 1 passage

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佛倫又劾琇知吳江縣時，嘗侵公帑，其父景昌故名爾標，乃明御史黃宗昌奴，坐賊黨誅，琇改父名冒封典，當追奪。 Folun also charged that as Wujiang magistrate Xiu had embezzled public funds, and that his father Jingchang—formerly Erbiao, a slave of the Ming censor Huang Zongchang executed as a rebel—had been given a false name so Xiu could usurp honors, which should be revoked.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 270Volume 270 Biographies 57: Hao Yu, Yang Suyun, Guo Xiu · 2 passages

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又劾琇世父郭爾印乃明季御史黃宗昌家奴，琇父郭景昌原名爾標，嘗入賊黨伏法，琇私改父名請誥封，應追奪。 and claimed Xiu's uncle had been a Ming censor's slave, that Xiu's father had been a bandit executed under another name, and that Xiu had falsified his father's name to obtain honors—all to be revoked.

三十九年，入覲，因奏言：「臣父景昌，即墨縣諸生，有冊可稽。 In year 39 he came to audience and said: "My father Jingchang was a Jimo licentiate—there are records.