Linkui (麟魁) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Linkui as a judge, military officer, official, and statesman. This record brings together 7 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Linkui	麟魁	Línkuí
Personal name	Lin Kui	麟魁	Lin Kui
Personal	Lin Kui	麟魁	Lin Kui
Personal name	Linkui	麟魁	Línkuí
Courtesy name	Meigu	梅谷	Meigu
Posthumous name	Wenduan	文端	Wenduan
Clan		索綽羅氏	Suochuoluo

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:191:s0144, qingshigao:389:s0048, qingshigao:393:s0083, qingshigao:393:s0085

Roles

Judge
Military Officer
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Place: Lanzhou / 蘭州 · Manner: sudden · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治元年 · Western Year: AD 1862
Explicit · qingshigao:389:s0085

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 同治元年 · Western Year: AD 1862
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:389:s0084
Source Date: Text: 咸豐二年 · Western Year: AD 1852
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:389:s0075
Source Date: Text: 咸豐十一年十月丙辰 · Western Year: AD 1861
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:191:s0144, qingshigao:191:s0140
Source Date: Text: 咸豐十一年十月辛酉 · Western Year: AD 1861
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:191:s0144, qingshigao:191:s0140
Source Date: Text: 咸豐十年 · Western Year: AD 1860
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:389:s0079
Source Date: Text: 道光二十二年 · Western Year: AD 1842
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:389:s0057
Source Date: Text: 道光二十年 · Western Year: AD 1840
Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0083, qingshigao:393:s0085
Source Date: Text: 道光六年 · Western Year: AD 1826
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:389:s0049
Source Date: Text: 道光十七年 · Western Year: AD 1837
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:389:s0051

Family

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Parent of Enshou (恩壽)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Origins and identity

Ethnicity: Manchu / 滿
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:191:s0144
Ethnicity: Manchu / 滿洲
Explicit · qingshigao:389:s0048

Career and standing

Label: Associate Grand Secretary / 協辦大學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治元年 · Western Year: AD 1862
Explicit · qingshigao:389:s0084
Label: Grand Councilor / 軍機大臣 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐二年 · Western Year: AD 1852
Explicit · qingshigao:389:s0075
Label: Left Censor-in-Chief / 左都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐十一年十月丙辰 · Western Year: AD 1861
Explicit · qingshigao:191:s0144, qingshigao:191:s0140
Label: Minister of Rites / 禮部尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十三年 · Western Year: AD 1843
Explicit · qingshigao:389:s0060
Label: Acting Governor of Shandong / 署山東巡撫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十二年 · Western Year: AD 1842
Explicit · qingshigao:389:s0057
Label: Vice Minister of Punishments at Mukden / 盛京刑部侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十七年 · Western Year: AD 1837
Explicit · qingshigao:389:s0051
Label: Left Censor-in-Chief / 左都御史 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐十一年十月辛酉 · Western Year: AD 1861
Explicit · qingshigao:191:s0144, qingshigao:191:s0140
Title: posthumous title Wenduan / 諡文端 · Action: granted
Explicit · qingshigao:389:s0085

Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:191:s0144
Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:389:s0049
Place: Bordered White Banner / 鑲白旗 · Relation: banner
Explicit · qingshigao:389:s0048
Place: Yarkand / 葉爾羌 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · qingshigao:389:s0062

Learning and skills

Credential: jinshi, first in second class / 二甲一名進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光六年 · Western Year: AD 1826
Explicit · qingshigao:389:s0049

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐元年 · Western Year: AD 1851
Explicit · qingshigao:389:s0066, qingshigao:389:s0067, qingshigao:389:s0068, qingshigao:389:s0069, qingshigao:389:s0070, qingshigao:389:s0071, qingshigao:389:s0072
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐十年 · Western Year: AD 1860
Explicit · qingshigao:389:s0080
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十二年 · Western Year: AD 1842
Explicit · qingshigao:389:s0058

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: defender · Action: held-capital-during-Anglo-French-occupation · Place: Beijing / 京師 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐十年 · Western Year: AD 1860
Explicit · qingshigao:389:s0080, qingshigao:389:s0081
Kind: personnel · Role: official · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐十一年十月辛酉 · Western Year: AD 1861
Explicit · qingshigao:191:s0144
Kind: investigation · Role: commissioner · Place: Gansu / 甘肅 · Other Person Id: Shen Zhaolin (沈兆霖) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治元年 · Western Year: AD 1862
Explicit · qingshigao:389:s0085

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 191Volume 191 Tables 31: Ministers of Boards and Courts Chronological Table 7 Lower · 1 passage

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愛仁十月丙辰遷。麟魁左都御史。辛酉遷。倭仁左都御史。 On the bingchen day of the tenth month, 愛仁 was transferred. 麟魁: Left Censor-in-Chief. On the xinyou day, was transferred. 倭仁: Left Censor-in-Chief.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 389Volume 389 Biographies 176: Bai Jun, Lin Kui, Rui Chang, Quan Qing · 5 passages

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麟魁，字梅谷，索綽羅氏，滿洲鑲白旗人。 Lin Kui, styled Meigu, was of the Suochiluo clan and a Manchu of the Bordered White Banner.

麟魁復往江西鞫鬧漕京控之獄，及江蘇邳州知州賈輝山被劾濫用非刑等事，並治如律。 Lin Kui then went to Jiangxi to try grain-transport riots appealed to Beijing, and the case of Peizhou Prefect Jia Huishan in Jiangsu, charged with abusive punishments; all offenders were punished as the law required.

英法兵入京師，麟魁部勒僚屬，戒都人守望相助，令家人閉戶厝薪，曰：「事急即燔！」 When Anglo-French troops entered Beijing, Lin Kui rallied his staff, urged the city's people to stand watch together, and told his family to bar the doors and stack firewood, saying: "If the worst comes, burn everything at once!"

時方奉命偕尚書沈兆霖赴甘肅按事，至蘭州，數日遽卒，詔依大學士例賜血卩，賜其子恩壽舉人，諡文端。 He had just been ordered with Minister Shen Zhaolin to investigate affairs in Gansu; he reached Lanzhou and died suddenly within days. He was granted posthumous compensation as a grand secretary, his son Enshou was given the rank of provincial graduate, and he received the posthumous title Wenduan.

麟魁、瑞常、全慶皆起家文學，洊陟綸扉，其建白猶有可紀焉。 Lin Kui, Rui Chang, and Quan Qing all rose from literary careers to the highest councils, and their memorials still deserve remembrance.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 393Volume 393 Biographies 180: Li Xingyuan, Zhou Tianjue, Lao Chongguang · 1 passage

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尋言官劾天爵酷刑，與廣義言略同，命侍郎麟魁、吳其濬往按，得天爵信任候補知縣楚鏞用非刑，外委黃雲邦誣執良民諸狀，上震怒，褫天爵職，戍伊犁。 Soon censorial officials impeached Tianjue for cruel punishments, largely echoing Guangyi's charges; Ministers Lin Kui and Wu Qijun were sent to investigate and found that Tianjue had trusted the expectant magistrate Chu Yong, who employed illegal torture, and the external appointee Huang Yunbang, who had falsely arrested innocent civilians; the Emperor was enraged, stripped Tianjue of office, and banished him to Yili.