Lian Kui (連魁) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Lian Kui as a general. This record brings together 2 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	Lian Kui	連魁	Lián Kuí

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:470:s0148

Roles

General

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 宣統三年鄂亂 · Western Year: AD 1911
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:470:s0146, qingshigao:470:s0148

Events and relationships

Kind: fall of Jingzhou · Role: gate opener · Action: opened the gates to revolutionary troops · Other Person Id: Song He (松鶴)
Explicit · qingshigao:470:s0158
Relation: recommended-military-employment-of · Person Id: Heng Ling (恆齡)
Explicit · qingshigao:470:s0148

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 · 2 passages

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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.