Liao Yin (廖寅) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Liao Yin as an administrator and official. This record brings together 7 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	Liao Yin	廖寅	Liao Yin
Courtesy name	Lianggong	亮工	Lianggong
Personal name	Liao Yin	廖寅	Liao Yin

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:362:s0091

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died after retiring for age and illness
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0112

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十四年 · Western Year: AD 1779
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:362:s0092

Family

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Parent of Liao Sifang (廖思芳)
Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 1

Career and standing

Label: acting magistrate of Ye / 署葉縣 · Action: acting
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0094
Label: Liang-Huai salt transport commissioner / 兩淮鹽運使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十六年 · Western Year: AD 1811
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0108
Label: prefect of Zhenjiang / 鎮江知府 · Action: promoted
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0102
Label: demoted / 失察降調 · Action: demoted
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0111

Places and affiliations

Place: Linshui, Sichuan / 四川鄰水
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0091

Learning and skills

Credential: provincial graduate / 舉人 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十四年 · Western Year: AD 1779
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0092

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: captor · Action: captured Liu Zhixie · Other Person Id: Liu Zhixie (劉之協)
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0101

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 362Volume 362 Biographies 149: Fang Ji, Zhu Erhan, Yang Hu, Liao Yin, Chen Changqi, Zhu Ergenge, Cha Chonghua · 7 passages

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方積硃爾漢楊頀廖寅陳昌齊硃爾賡額查崇華方積，字有堂，安徽定遠人。 Fang Ji, Zhu Erhan, Yang Hu, Liao Yin, Chen Changqi, Zhu Ergenge, and Cha Chonghua. Fang Ji, whose style name was Youtang, came from Dingyuan in Anhui.

廖寅，字亮工，四川鄰水人。 Liao Yin, whose style name was Lianggong, came from Linshui in Sichuan.

時教匪方熾，葉當衝，寅撫民不擾。 The sect rebels were then at their height, and Ye County lay in their path, yet Yin governed without harassing the people.

長子思芳有武略，省父至葉，任以守衛事。 His eldest son Sifang was skilled in military affairs. When he came from the capital to visit his father at Ye, Yin put him in charge of the county's defense.

寅趣思芳往與雜坐，出不意縛之，鞫得實，械至都伏法。 Yin sent Sifang to join the men at their table; he seized them by surprise, obtained a full confession under interrogation, and had them sent in chains to the capital, where they were executed.

河北滑縣教匪起，總督百齡檄寅往徐州協守禦。 When sect rebels broke out in Huaxian, Hebei, Governor-General Bailin summoned Yin to Xuzhou to help with the defense.

他如硃爾漢之保鞏昌，楊頀之清叛產、撫難民，廖寅之擒劉之協，皆卓有建樹。 Others too made distinguished contributions: Zhu Erhan's defense of Gongchang, Yang Hu's sorting of rebel property and relief of refugees, and Liao Yin's capture of Liu Zhixie.