Jueluo Guifang (覺羅桂芳)

Overview

The translated histories identify Jueluo Guifang as an official, poet, scholar, and statesman. 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	Jueluo Guifang	覺羅桂芳	Jueluo Guifang
Personal name	Guifang	桂芳	Guifang
Surname	Jueluo	覺羅	Jueluo
Personal name	Jueluo Guifang	覺羅桂芳	Jueluo Guifang
Posthumous name	Wenmin	文敏	Wenmin
Courtesy name	Xiangdong	香東	Xiangdong

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Official
Poet
Scholar
Statesman
Teacher

Life and dates

Death

Place: Wuchang / 武昌 · Cause: epidemic disease / 病疫 · Date: Source Date: Text: 未至廣西，於武昌途次病疫，卒 · Western Year: c. AD 1814
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十一年 · Western Year: AD 1806
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Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十九年 · Western Year: AD 1814
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Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十八年 · Western Year: AD 1813
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Source Date: Text: 嘉慶四年 · Western Year: AD 1799
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Family

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Child of Parent of Guifang (桂芳之父)
Kinship Term: grandson / 孫 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: grandchild · Object Role: parent · Generation Distance: 1
Descendant of Tusi De (圖思德)
Kinship Term: grandson / 孫 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
Parent of Bingkui (炳奎)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: Southern Study duty / 上書房 · Action: appointed · Date: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十一年 · Western Year: AD 1806
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Label: director-general of grain transport / 漕運總督 · Action: appointed
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Label: Grand Councilor / 軍機大臣 · Action: appointed
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Label: academician of the Grand Secretariat / 內閣學士 · Action: promoted
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Title: Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent / 太子少保 · Action: posthumous
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Places and affiliations

Organization: Bordered Blue Banner / 鑲藍旗 · Relation: member-of
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Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶四年 · Western Year: AD 1799
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Works and attributed material

Work: Jingyi Studio poetry collection / 敬儀堂詩存 · Relation: author
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Work: presentations to the throne / 經進 · Relation: author
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Kind: essay-response · Role: author · Addressee Person Id: Jiaqing Emperor (嘉慶帝)
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Kind: memorial · Role: author · Addressee Person Id: Jiaqing Emperor (嘉慶帝)
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Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: helped-crush-intruders · Label: Lin Qing Forbidden City attack / 林清逆黨闌入禁城 · Date: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十八年 · Western Year: AD 1813
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Kind: legal · Role: investigator · Action: investigated-without-partiality · Other Person Id: Lu Kang (祿康)
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Relation: teacher-of · Person Id: Third Prince (三阿哥)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: clear, cautious, forthright; good talent hard to find · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Speaker Person Id: Jiaqing Emperor (嘉慶帝)
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Assessment: rare talent · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Speaker Person Id: Jiaqing Emperor (嘉慶帝)
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Assessment: understood government and remonstrated bluntly; foremost talent of the age · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 353Volume 353 Biographies 140: Da Chun | Son: Sa Bin Tu, Tie Bao Younger Brother: Yu Bao, He Ying, Jue Luo Gui Fang · 11 passages

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達椿子薩彬圖鐵保弟玉保和瑛覺羅桂芳 Da Chun; his son Sa Bintu; Tie Bao; Tie Bao's younger brother Yu Bao; He Ying; and Jueluo Guifang

覺羅桂芳，字香東，隸鑲藍旗，總督圖思德孫。 Jueluo Guifang, whose courtesy name was Xiangdong, belonged to the Bordered Blue Banner and was a grandson of Governor Tusi De.

桂芳家素貧，有門生餽納，曰：「執贄禮甚古。 Guifang's family had long been poor. When a student offered him a gift, he said: 'The ritual of presenting tribute is indeed ancient.

大學士祿康輿夫聚博，命偕侍郎英和按治，無所徇。 When Grand Secretary Lu Kang's servants were found gambling, Guifang was ordered to investigate with Vice Minister Ying He and showed no partiality.

十八年，教匪林清逆黨闌入禁城，桂芳方直內廷，偕諸王大臣率兵殲捕，敘勞，加二級。 In 1813 Lin Qing's rebel sect broke into the Forbidden City while Guifang was on duty in the inner court. He joined princes and grand ministers in leading troops to crush the intruders and was rewarded with two steps of promotion.

桂芳書罪己詔后曰：「皇上臨御以來，承列聖深仁厚澤，日以愛民為政，四海之內，莫不聞睹。 Guifang wrote after the emperor's self-reproach edict: 'Since Your Majesty came to the throne, inheriting the deep benevolence of successive sage rulers, you have governed daily with love for the people, and all within the four seas have witnessed it.

桂芳慨然曰：「此何時，尚以迎合為言耶？」 Guifang said with feeling: 'What time is this, and still you speak of currying favor?'

十九年，軍事竣，以贊畫功賜桂芳子炳奎七品小京官。 In 1814, when the military campaign ended, his son Bingkui was granted a seventh-rank junior Beijing secretary for Guifang's planning merit.

上以桂芳明慎直爽，方鄉用，至是優詔褒卹，嘆為「良才難得」，贈太子少保，加尚書銜； The emperor, who had valued Guifang's clarity, caution, and forthright candor and had been about to employ him in the provinces, now issued a gracious edict of praise and condolence, sighed that "good talent is hard to find," and posthumously made him Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent with ministerial rank;

復以曾授三阿哥讀書，喪至京師，命三阿哥往奠，御製詩悼之，諡文敏。 because he had once taught the Third Prince, when the funeral reached Beijing the emperor ordered the prince to offer condolences, composed an imperial mourning poem, and gave him the posthumous name Wenmin.

桂芳通達政體，建言諤諤，最為一時俊才，年命不永，未竟其用，惜哉！ Guifang thoroughly understood government, remonstrated with blunt honesty, and stood foremost among the outstanding talents of his age; his life was short and he did not fulfill his promise—alas!