Liu Tongying (劉同纓)

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Tongying as an administrator and official. This record brings together 5 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	Liu Tongying	劉同纓	Liu Tongying
Posthumous	Martial and Fierce	武烈	Wulie
Given	Tongying	同纓	Tongying

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:398:s0092

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: composed death poem and drowned / 賦絕命詞，投水死 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐三年 · Western Year: AD 1853
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:398:s0098

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 咸豐三年 · Western Year: AD 1853
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:398:s0078, qingshigao:398:s0096

Career and standing

Label: magistrate of Shangyuan and other counties / 上元等縣知縣 · Action: served
Explicit · qingshigao:398:s0094
Label: posthumous name Martial and Fierce / 諡武烈 · Action: granted
Explicit · qingshigao:398:s0098
Label: circuit-intendant rank / 道銜 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · qingshigao:398:s0098

Places and affiliations

Place: Shicheng, Jiangxi / 江西石城
Explicit · qingshigao:398:s0092

Learning and skills

Credential: selected tribute student / 拔貢 · Action: earned
Explicit · qingshigao:398:s0093

Works and attributed material

Work: death poem / 絕命詞 · Relation: author
Explicit · qingshigao:398:s0098

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: defender · Action: refused forged Xiang Rong letter; sealed cannon breach
Explicit · qingshigao:398:s0096, qingshigao:398:s0097

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 398Volume 398 Biographies 185: Zong Shixianghou, Huo Longwu, Fu Zhu Hong A, En Zhang, Chen Shengyuan, Qi Suzao, Chen Kerang, Liu Tongying, Rui Chang, Jie Chun, Xi Ling A · 5 passages

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宗室祥厚霍隆武福珠洪阿恩長陳勝元祁宿藻陳克讓劉同纓 Imperial clansman Xianghou; Huo Longwu; Fu Zhu Hong'a; En Chang; Chen Shengyuan; Qi Suzao; Chen Kerang; Liu Tongying

當城陷時，署布政使鹽巡道塗文鈞、江安糧道陳克讓、江寧知府魏亨逵、同知承恩、通判程文榮、上元知縣劉同纓、江寧知縣張行澍同死之。 When the city fell, Acting Commissioner Tu Wenjun, Grain Transport Commissioner Chen Kerang, Prefect Wei Hengkui, Subprefect Cheng En, Assistant Prefect Cheng Wenrong, Shangyuan magistrate Liu Tongying, and Jiangning magistrate Zhang Xingshu all died in the defense.

同纓，江西石城人。 Liu Tongying was a native of Shicheng in Jiangxi.

賊初至，假向榮書請入城，同纓察其詐，卻之。 When the rebels first arrived they forged a letter from Xiang Rong asking to be admitted into the city. Tongying saw through the ruse and refused.

及城陷，賦絕命詞，投水死，卹典加等，贈道銜，諡武烈。 When the city fell he wrote a final poem, threw himself into the water, and drowned. The court raised his mourning honors, posthumously granted him circuit-intendant rank, and honored him with the posthumous name Martial and Fierce.