Miao Peilin (苗沛霖)

Overview

The translated histories identify Miao Peilin as a bandit and rebel. This record brings together 5 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	Miao Peilin	苗沛霖	Miao Peilin
Personal name	Miao Peilin	苗沛霖	Miao Peilin

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:133:s0168, qingshigao:460:s0006
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:390:s0166

Roles

Bandit
Rebel

Life and dates

Death

Manner: eliminated-after-military-campaign · Negated: false
Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0168

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 同治二年 · Western Year: AD 1863
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:133:s0168
Source Date: Text: 同治元年 · Western Year: AD 1862
Explicit · qingshigao:390:s0166
Source Date: Text: 咸豐同治間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1851 · End: AD 1863
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:460:s0006, qingshigao:460:s0111

Career and standing

Label: Nian chieftain / 捻酋
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0111

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0168
Place: Anhui / 安徽 · Relation: active-in
Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0168

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: rebel-leader · Action: captured · Other Person Id: Zuo Baogui (左寶貴)
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0006
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: planned-to-divide-forces · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治元年 · Western Year: AD 1862
Explicit · qingshigao:390:s0166
Kind: rebellion · Role: leader · Action: rebelled
Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0168

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: especially fierce and treacherous · Provenance: Mode: named-person-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Sengge Rinchen (僧格林沁)
Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0168

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 133Volume 133 Treatises 108: Military 4, Local Militia · 1 passage

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乃各團每以有寨可據，輒藐視官長，擅理詞訟，或聚眾抗糧，或挾仇械鬥，甚至謀為不軌，踞城戕官，如山東之劉德培，河南之李瞻，先後倡亂，而安徽之苗沛霖，尤為梟桀反覆，勞師糜餉，始得次第翦除。 Yet once militia had stockades to fall back on, they often defied officials, judged cases on their own, resisted grain taxes in armed crowds, fought private feuds, and even plotted rebellion—seizing cities and killing officials, as with Liu Depei in Shandong and Li Zhan in Henan. Miao Peilin in Anhui was especially fierce and treacherous; only after great expense in troops and funds was he finally cut down.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 390Volume 390 Biographies 177: Jia Zhen, Zhou Zupei, Zhu Fengbiao, Dan Maoqian · 2 passages

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同治元年安徽降賊苗沛霖謀分兵：一由清江，一渡潁而西，聲稱赴陝西勝保軍營助剿，實有異圖。 In the first year of Tongzhi, Miao Peilin, a surrendered rebel in Anhui, planned to divide his forces—one column through Qingjiang, the other crossing the Ying westward—claiming to join Sheng Bao's army in Shaanxi while in fact harboring other designs.

楨上疏言：「苗沛霖窮而就撫，仍復擁兵觀望，反覆無常。 Zhen memorialized: "Miao Peilin, driven to submit, again keeps his troops and waits to see which way the wind blows, shifting back and forth without constancy.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 460Volume 460 Biographies 247: Zuo Baogui Younger Brother: Bao Xian, Yong Shan, Deng Shichang, Liu Buchan, Lin Taiceng, Dai Zongqian · 2 passages

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獲苗沛霖，克金陵，頻有功。 He helped capture Miao Peilin, took Nanjing, and won distinction again and again.

少以廩生治鄉團，捻酋苗沛霖數陷州，宗騫潛結各圩寨以攜貳其黨。 As a young licentiate he organized local militia; when the Nian chieftain Miao Peilin repeatedly seized the prefecture, Zongqian secretly won over the surrounding stockaded villages and turned Miao's own followers against him.