Heng Ling (恆齡) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Heng Ling as an administrator, military officer, and teacher. This record brings together 10 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	Heng Ling	恆齡	Héng Líng
Courtesy	Xijiu	錫九	Xījiǔ
Posthumous	Zhuangjie	壯節	Zhuàngjié

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:470:s0003

Roles

Administrator
Military Officer
Teacher

Life and dates

Death

Manner: shot himself through the chest · Place: Jingzhou / 荊州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宣統三年 · Western Year: AD 1911
Explicit · qingshigao:470:s0152

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 宣統三年 · Western Year: AD 1911
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:470:s0146, qingshigao:470:s0152

Family

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Sibling of Heng Guang (恆廣)
Kinship Term: elder brother / younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: elder brother · Object Role: younger brother
Parent of Yuwen (裕文)
Kinship Term: father / son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Father of Heng Ling
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Mother of Heng Ling
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Origins and identity

Ethnicity: Manchu
Explicit · qingshigao:470:s0125
Clan: Shumulu clan / 舒穆魯氏
Explicit · qingshigao:470:s0125

Career and standing

Label: vice commander at Ningxia / 寧夏副都統 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宣統二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1910
Explicit · qingshigao:470:s0142
Label: acting left vice commander at Jingzhou / 署荊州左翼副都統 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宣統三年 · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1911
Explicit · qingshigao:470:s0148
Label: posthumous name Zhuangjie / 諡壯節 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · qingshigao:470:s0159

Places and affiliations

Place: Jingzhou, Hubei / 湖北荊州 · Relation: garrisoned-at
Explicit · qingshigao:470:s0125
Organization: Manchu Plain Blue Banner / 滿洲正藍旗 · Relation: enrolled-in
Explicit · qingshigao:470:s0125

Learning and skills

Skill: Chinese and Western military theory / 中外兵家言 · Level: well-versed
Explicit · qingshigao:470:s0126

Works and attributed material

Kind: letter · Role: author · Addressees Person Ids: Heng Guang (恆廣), Yuwen (裕文) · Content Summary: declared his duty to die and instructed his family to care for his mother · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Heng Ling (恆齡)
Explicit · qingshigao:470:s0153, qingshigao:470:s0154, qingshigao:470:s0155, qingshigao:470:s0156, qingshigao:470:s0157

Events and relationships

Kind: educational reform · Role: founder and administrator · Action: founded a banner higher school and army primary school
Explicit · qingshigao:470:s0132, qingshigao:470:s0133, qingshigao:470:s0134, qingshigao:470:s0136, qingshigao:470:s0137
Kind: Boxer crisis at Jingzhou · Role: commander · Action: restored order and protected foreign refugees
Explicit · qingshigao:470:s0129, qingshigao:470:s0130

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 470Volume 470 Biographies 257: Zhi Rui, With: Liu Congde, Chun Xun, Liang Bi, Zong Shizaimu, Wan Xuan With: De Pei, Tong Yuan, Wen Rui With: Cheng Yan, Ke Meng E, Heng Ling With: De Pei, Pu Shou, Xie Baosheng, Yao Aiyun, Huang Zhonghao, Yang Rang Li Cong Zi Xu : Chen Qi · 10 passages

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文瑞承燕克蒙額恆齡德霈等樸壽謝寶勝姚靄雲 Wen Rui; with Cheng Yan, Ke Meng'e, and Heng Ling; with De Pei, Pu Shou, Xie Baosheng, and Yao Aiyun

恆齡，字錫九，舒穆魯氏，滿洲正藍旗人，湖北荊州駐防。 Heng Ling, styled Xijiu, was of the Shumulu clan, enrolled in the Manchu Plain Blue Banner, and garrisoned at Jingzhou in Hubei.

恆齡少嗜學，嫺武幹，尤熟中外兵家言。 From youth Heng Ling loved learning, was skilled in military affairs, and knew both Chinese and Western military theory well.

恆齡率二百人往鎮撫，誅首要，宥脅從，外人避難者護持之。 Heng Ling led two hundred men to restore order, executed the ringleaders, pardoned those who had been coerced, and protected foreigners who sought refuge.

將軍綽哈布疏綜營務，恆齡條上四事，曰：設警察，興學校，釐財政，練常備軍，並奏行。 General Chuo Habu reported on garrison affairs. Heng Ling proposed four measures—police, schools, fiscal reform, and a standing army—and all were adopted.

恆齡固請終制，解職去，奉父喪於萬縣，抵宜昌，鄂亂作，道塗阻絕，將軍連魁疏請參軍事，上命署荊州左翼副都統。 Heng Ling insisted on observing the full mourning period, resigned, and buried his father at Wanxian. At Yichang rebellion broke out in Hubei and travel became impossible. General Lian Kui asked the court to use him militarily, and he was ordered to act as left vice commander at Jingzhou.

恆齡援「墨絰從戎」義，愾然任城守，而援絕餉匱，兵人疲饉則譁變，乃斥家財餉之，涕泣誓眾，令毋擾沙市啟外釁。 Invoking the tradition of "taking the field in mourning dress," he angrily undertook the city's defense. Relief and supplies ran out; when hungry troops mutinied he spent his family fortune to pay them, wept before his men, and ordered that Shashi be left unmolested lest foreigners be provoked.

恆齡晨起，公服端坐堂上，發手槍洞胸而歾。 Heng Ling rose in the morning, put on his official robes, sat upright in the hall, and shot himself through the chest.

恆齡死數日，連魁與右翼副都統松鶴開門納民軍，荊州遂失。 A few days after Heng Ling's death, Lian Kui and the right vice commander Song He opened the gates to the revolutionary army, and Jingzhou fell.

事聞，上震悼，諡壯節。 When word reached the throne the court was shaken with grief and gave him the posthumous name Zhuangjie, "Steadfast in Integrity."