Hong Chengchou (洪承疇)

Overview

Hong Chengchou was a Grand Secretary.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1651 八年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 245, passage 79
AD 1644 順治元年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 245, passages 39, 41
AD 1644 順治元年
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 245, passages 239-240
AD 1651 順治八年辛卯
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 179, passages 108, 113
AD 1660 順治十七年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 199

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Left Censor-in-Chief 左都御史
AD 1651 順治八年辛卯 · Administered
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 179, passage 113
Grand Secretary and commissioner-general 經略大學士
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 199
Grand Secretary 大學士
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 245, passage 39

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 245, passages 39, 79, 240

Works and attributed material

Memorial · Co author · With Feng Quan (馮銓)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 245, passage 39

Events and relationships

Asked to resign
AD 1644 順治元年 · Political · Petitioner
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 245, passage 41
Evening discussion of Hanlin officials
Administrative · Participant
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 245, passage 79
Summoned to surrender
Political · Recruiter · With Zhang Jinyan (張縉彥)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 245, passage 240
Relation Recommender of · Person Zhao Tingbiao (趙廷標)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 199

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 179Volume 179 Tables 19: Ministers of Boards and Courts Chronological Table 1 Lower · 1 passage

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徐啓元閏二月致仕。戊辰洪承疇管左都御史。八月乙卯趙開心左都御史。 In the intercalary second month, Xu Qiyuan retired from office. On the wuchen day, Hong Chengchou administered the post of Left Censor-in-Chief. On the yimao day of the eighth month, Zhao Kaixin: Left Censor-in-Chief.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 245Volume 245 Biographies 32: Gang Lin, Feng Quan, Chen Mingxia, Chen Zhilin, Liu Zhengzong · 4 passages

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令以大學士原銜入內院佐理機務，與大學士洪承疇疏請復明票擬舊制，又與大學士謝升等議定郊社、宗廟樂章。 He was ordered to enter the Inner Court to assist in state affairs under his former grand secretary title; with Grand Secretary Hong Chengchou he memorialized to restore the Ming practice of drafting memorials with approval slips, and with Grand Secretary Xie Sheng and others he also settled the ceremonial music for suburban sacrifices and the ancestral temple.

銓與升、承疇乞罷，諭令益殫忠猷，以襄新治。 Quan, together with Sheng and Chengchou, asked to resign; an edict ordered them instead to devote themselves more fully and assist the new regime.

銓至，召見，又與承疇、文程等同夕對論翰林官賢否，上曰：「朕將親試之！」 When Quan arrived and was granted audience, the emperor that evening discussed with Chengchou, Wencheng, and others whether the Hanlin officials were worthy, and said: "I shall examine them myself!"

既，复受洪承疇招降。 Later he again accepted Hong Chengchou's summons to surrender.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 247Volume 247 Biographies 34: Peng Ershu, Lu Zhenfen, Yao Yanzhu, Bi Zhenji, Fang Guodong, Yu Pengju, Wang Tianjian, Yue Tingbiao · 1 passage

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經略大學士洪承疇薦廷標，十七年，擢雲南迤東道副使。 Grand Secretary Hong Chengchou recommended Tingbiao; in the seventeenth year he was promoted to vice commissioner of Yidong Circuit in Yunnan.