Jiang Zhongyuan (江忠源)

Overview

The translated histories identify Jiang Zhongyuan as a general, military officer, and official. This record brings together 9 passages from 5 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Jiang Zhongyuan	江忠源	Jiāng Zhōngyuán
Personal name	Jiang Zhongyuan	江忠源	Jiāng Zhōngyuán
Personal	Jiang Zhongyuan	江忠源	Jiang Zhongyuan
Personal name	Jiang Zhongyuan	江忠源
Personal name	Jiang Zhongyuan	江忠源	Jiang Zhongyuan
Title	Magistrate Jiang	江令
Given	Zhongyuan	忠源

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:387:s0096, qingshigao:392:s0024, qingshigao:396:s0023
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:393:s0109, qingshigao:423:s0015

Roles

General
Military Officer
Official

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐三年 · Western Year: AD 1853 · Place: Luzhou / 廬州
Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0109

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 1853
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:387:s0096, qingshigao:387:s0095
Source Date: Text: 咸豐三年 · Western Year: AD 1853
Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0109
Source Date: Text: 咸豐五年前後 · Western Year: AD 1855
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:423:s0015
Source Date: Text: 咸豐元年 · Western Year: AD 1851
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:392:s0019, qingshigao:392:s0024
Source Date: Text: 咸豐元年至二年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1851 · End: AD 1852
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:396:s0029, qingshigao:396:s0033, qingshigao:396:s0034
Source Date: Text: 道光二十九年 · Western Year: AD 1849
Explicit · qingshigao:396:s0021, qingshigao:396:s0023

Career and standing

Label: magistrate of Xiushui / 秀水令 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十九年 · Western Year: AD 1849
Explicit · qingshigao:396:s0023
Label: Hunan county magistrate / 湖南在籍知縣 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0024
Status: left-office-for-mourning · Action: entered
Explicit · qingshigao:396:s0023

Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:387:s0096
Place: Guangxi / 廣西 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · qingshigao:396:s0033

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: killed · Other Person Id: Feng Yunshan (馮雲山) · Place: Suoyi Ford / 蓑衣渡 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐二年 · Western Year: AD 1852
Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0046

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: most diligent and honest; relied on for relief, bandit suppression, and seawall work · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:396:s0023

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 387Volume 387 Biographies 174: Zong Shisushun, Mu Yin, Kuang Yuan, Jiao Youying, Chen Fuen · 1 passage

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賊犯南昌，孚恩偕芾固守，江忠源援師至，力戰，相持九十餘日，賊始引去。 When rebels attacked Nanchang, Fuen and Fei held the city. Jiang Zhongyuan's relief force arrived and fought hard; after more than ninety days the rebels finally withdrew.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 392Volume 392 Biographies 179: Sai Shang A, Ne Er Jing E · 2 passages

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又調湖南在籍知縣江忠源赴營。 Jiang Zhongyuan, a Hunan county magistrate serving at home on leave, was also called to join the camp.

江忠源破賊於蓑衣渡，斃悍賊馮雲山。 Jiang Zhongyuan routed the rebels at Suoyi Ford and killed the formidable rebel leader Feng Yunshan.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 393Volume 393 Biographies 180: Li Xingyuan, Zhou Tianjue, Lao Chongguang · 1 passage

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元煒通賊內應，廬州陷，江忠源死之。 Yuanwei had colluded with the rebels as an inside agent; Luzhou fell and Jiang Zhongyuan was killed.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 396Volume 396 Biographies 183: Wu Wenrong, Pan Duo, Deng Erheng · 4 passages

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秀水令江忠源勤廉稱最，治賑治盜及塘工皆倚辦，以憂去。 The magistrate of Xiushui, Jiang Zhongyuan, was praised as the most diligent and honest official; relief work, bandit suppression, and seawall projects all relied on him, but he left office to observe mourning.

文鎔歎曰：「賢如江令，可令其無以歸葬乎？」 Wenrong sighed and said, "A man as worthy as Magistrate Jiang—can we let him lack the means to return home for burial?"

自支養廉五百兩畀之，奏辦賑功，以忠源首列。 He paid five hundred taels from his integrity stipend and gave them to him; in memorializing relief achievements he listed Zhongyuan first.

江忠源在廣西軍中，文鎔致書曰：「永安賊不滅，若竄湖南，不可製矣！」 Jiang Zhongyuan was serving in the Guangxi army; Wenrong wrote to him, saying, "If the rebels at Yong'an are not destroyed and they flee into Hunan, they cannot be controlled!"

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 423Volume 423 Biographies 210: Zong Jichen, Yin Gengyun, Wang Zheng, Mu Jixianga, You Baichuan, Shen Huai · 1 passage

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如烏蘭泰、塔齊布、江忠源皆難得之將，而多不盡其用，且以死殉。 Generals like Ulanga, Taqibu, and Jiang Zhongyuan were irreplaceable, yet the court often failed to use them fully, and they died in the field.