Lan Zhengzun (藍正樽)

Overview

The translated histories identify Lan Zhengzun as a rebel and religious leader. This record brings together 4 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	Lan Zhengzun	藍正樽	Lán Zhèngzūn
Personal name	Lan Zhengzun	藍正樽	Lán Zhèngzūn

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0065

Roles

Rebel
Religious Leader

Life and dates

Death

Manner: beaten to death by local militia (reported) / 鄉勇毆斃 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十七年 · Western Year: AD 1837
Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0068

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 十六年 · Western Year: AD 1836
Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0065

Origins and identity

Ethnicity: Yao / 瑤
Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0065

Places and affiliations

Place: Xinning, Hunan / 湖南新寧 · Relation: native-of
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Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: rebel-leader · Action: attacked · Place: Wugang / 武岡 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十六年 · Western Year: AD 1836
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References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 392Volume 392 Biographies 179: Sai Shang A, Ne Er Jing E · 4 passages

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十六年，湖南新寧瑤生藍正樽習教傳徒，聚眾數千，攻武岡州城，為官兵擊退。 In the sixteenth year (1836) Lan Zhengzun, a Yao from Xinning in Hunan who practiced the sect and gathered followers, mustered several thousand men and attacked Wugang but was driven back by government troops.

捕獲黨羽，而正樽逃逸，詔責訥爾經額嚴緝，久不獲，革職留任。 His followers were captured but Zhengzun escaped; the court rebuked Ne'erjing'e for failing to hunt him down vigorously; after a long failure to capture him, he was stripped of rank but kept in post.

十七年，京察考績，詔斥訥爾經額玩洩無能，降湖南巡撫，限一年捕正樽。 In the seventeenth year (1837), at the capital performance review, an edict denounced Ne'erjing'e for slack incompetence, demoted him to governor of Hunan, and gave him one year to capture Zhengzun.

尋以正樽已被鄉勇毆斃，奏下繼任總督林則徐確查虛實，則徐疏言鄉勇毆斃三賊，有正樽在內，以衣物為證，詔斥衣物出於事後呈驗，不足信，褫訥爾經額職，予三等侍衛，充駐藏辦事大臣。 Soon word came that local militia had beaten Zhengzun to death; the report was sent to his successor Lin Zexu for verification; Lin wrote that militia had killed three rebels, Zhengzun among them, citing clothing as evidence; the court rejected this, saying the clothing had been produced only afterward and was not credible; Ne'erjing'e was dismissed, given third-class bodyguard rank, and appointed commissioner in Tibet.