Liang Dingfen (梁鼎芬)

Overview

The translated histories identify Liang Dingfen as an official, scholar, and teacher. This record brings together 6 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	Liang Dingfen	梁鼎芬	Liang Dingfen
Given	Dingfen	鼎芬	Dingfen
Posthumous	Wenzhong	文忠	Wenzhong
Courtesy	Xinghai	星海	Xinghai

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Official
Scholar
Teacher

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 丁巳復辟逾年 · Western Year: AD 1918
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 丁巳 · Western Year: AD 1917
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Source Date: Text: 光緒三十二年 · Western Year: AD 1906
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Source Date: Text: 光緒六年 · Western Year: AD 1880
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Career and standing

Label: posthumous name Wenzhong / 諡文忠 · Action: bestowed
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Label: demotion five ranks for reckless impeachment / 降五級調用 · Action: suffered
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
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Place: Panyu, Guangdong / 廣東番禺
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Learning and skills

Credential: jinshi / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒六年 · Western Year: AD 1880
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Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author
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Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: accuser · Action: impeached Li Hongzhang · Other Person Id: Li Hongzhang (李鴻章) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 法越事亟 · Western Year: AD 1884
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Kind: political · Role: accuser · Action: impeached Yikuang and Yuan Shikai · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒三十二年 · Western Year: AD 1906
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Relation: protege-of · Person Id: Zhang Zhidong (張之洞)
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Relation: recommended-by · Person Id: Duanfang (端方)
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References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 472Volume 472 Biographies 259: Lu Runxiang, Shi Xu, Yi Ketan, Liang Dingfen, Xu Fang, Lao Naixuan, Shen Cengzhi · 6 passages

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梁鼎芬，字星海，廣東番禺人。 Liang Dingfen, whose courtesy name was Xinghai, came from Panyu in Guangdong.

又隨還鄂，皆參其幕府事。 when Zhang returned to Hubei, Dingfen followed and served in his secretariat throughout.

之洞銳行新政，學堂林立，言學事惟鼎芬是任。 Zhidong vigorously pursued the new policies, schools sprang up everywhere, and on all matters of education only Dingfen was entrusted.

拳禍起，兩宮西幸，鼎芬首倡呈進方物之議。 When the Boxer calamity broke out and the Empress Dowager and the Emperor fled west, Dingfen was first to propose presenting local tribute products.

兩宮升遐，奔赴哭臨，越日即行，時之洞在樞垣，不一往謁也。 When the Empress Dowager and the Emperor passed away, he rushed to attend the mourning rites and left the next day; Zhidong was then in the Grand Council, yet Dingfen did not once go to pay his respects.

事變憂甚，逾年卒，諡文忠。 Deeply grieved by the turn of events, he died the following year and was given the posthumous name Wenzhong.