Muzhanga (穆彰阿) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Muzhanga as an official and statesman. This record brings together 9 passages from 7 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Muzhanga	穆彰阿	Mùzhāngā
Personal name	Mujangga	穆彰阿	Mujangga
Personal name	Mujangga	穆彰阿
Personal name	Mujiang'a	穆彰阿	Mujiang'a
Personal name	Muzhang'a	穆彰阿	Mùzhāng'ā
Personal	Muzhanga	穆彰阿

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:364:s0189, qingshigao:378:s0050, qingshigao:384:s0001, qingshigao:394:s0044
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0083, qingshigao:375:s0023, qingshigao:387:s0083

Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 二十一年 · Western Year: AD 1841
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:373:s0083
Source Date: Text: 二十三年春 · Western Year: AD 1843
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:378:s0149, qingshigao:378:s0146
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十年 · Western Year: AD 1805
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:375:s0080, qingshigao:375:s0065
Source Date: Text: 文宗即位，黜大學士穆彰阿 · Western Year: AD 1850
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0172
Source Date: Text: 道光三十年 · Western Year: AD 1850
Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0044
Source Date: Text: 道光五年 · Western Year: AD 1825
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:387:s0083, qingshigao:387:s0081
Source Date: Text: 道光十一年 · Western Year: AD 1831
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0023
Source Date: Text: 道光十九年至二十一年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1839 · End: AD 1841
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:364:s0189

Career and standing

Label: Grand Secretary / 大學士 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0172
Title: Grand Secretary / 大學士 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0083
Status: dismissal · Action: suffered · Authority Person Id: Emperor Xianfeng (咸豐帝)
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0172

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: lived-under
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:375:s0023
Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0083
Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0189, qingshigao:378:s0002, qingshigao:387:s0083

Learning and skills

Belief: appeasement policy / 和議 · Relation: associated-with
Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0189

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0083

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: petitioner · Action: sought-release · Other Person Id: Qishan (琦善)
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0083

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0083

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 364Volume 364 Biographies 151: Ruan Yuan, Wang Tingzhen, Tang Jinzhao · 1 passage

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金釗素不附和議，與穆彰阿等意齟《齒吾》。 Jinzhao had never favored appeasement and was at odds with Muzhanga and others.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 373Volume 373 Biographies 160: Zong Shiyishan, Long Wen, Zong Shiyijing, Wen Wei, Te Yi Shun, Yu Buyun · 1 passage

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大學士穆彰阿奏請釋琦善出獄，隨赴軍前效力，奕經卻之。 Grand Secretary Muzhanga asked that Qi Shan be freed from prison to serve at the front; Yijing declined.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 375Volume 375 Biographies 162: Bai Rong, Sun Huan, Shi Zhiyan, Na Qingan, Sheng Yin, Li Zongfang, Yao Yuanzhi, He Rulin, Ji Zhichang, Lie Chuan · 3 passages

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時尚書穆彰阿、硃士彥亦奉命勘湖、河汎溢狀，穆彰阿先回京，鎔遂偕士彥履勘沿河閘壩工程，與總督陶澍定議以工代賑。 Ministers Mujiang'a and Zhu Shiyan had also been sent to assess flooding on lakes and rivers. Mujiang'a returned first, whereupon Bai Rong and Zhu Shiyan inspected sluice and dam projects along the waterways and, with Governor-General Tao Shu, adopted relief work in place of direct grain distribution.

因與穆彰阿同榜成進士，晚乃受宣宗知，迭秉文衡。 Having passed the jinshi examination in the same year as Mujiang'a, he won the Xuanzong Emperor's favor only late in life and repeatedly held examination offices.

愛士好事，穆彰阿素重之。 He loved scholars and enjoyed doing good deeds, and Mujiang'a had always valued him highly.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 378Volume 378 Biographies 165: Huang Juezi, Jin Yinglin, Chen Qingyong, Su Tingkui, Zhu Qi · 1 passage

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二十三年春，有白氣自天西南隅直掃參旗，因災異上疏數千言，極論時政乖迕，歸罪樞臣穆彰阿等，請立罷黜； In the spring of Daoguang 23 a white comet swept from the southwest through the Shen constellation; he submitted a memorial of several thousand words on this omen, condemning current policy and blaming Grand Councilor Mujangga and others, demanding their immediate dismissal;

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 384Volume 384 Biographies 171: Lin Peihou, Li Xiangkun, Li Zongchuan, Wang Fengsheng, Huang Mian, Yu De Yuan, Yao Ying · 1 passage

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文宗即位，黜大學士穆彰阿，詔宣示中外，並及瑩與達洪阿被陷狀，於是復起用，授湖北武昌鹽法道，未行，擢廣西按察使，命參大學士賽尚阿軍事。 When the Wenzong Emperor came to the throne, Grand Secretary Mujangga was dismissed and an edict to the empire also cleared Yao and Da Hong'a of the false charges against them; Yao was then restored, appointed salt law intendant at Wuchang in Hubei, and before he could take up that post was promoted provincial judge of Guangxi and ordered to join Grand Secretary Saišangga's staff.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 387Volume 387 Biographies 174: Zong Shisushun, Mu Yin, Kuang Yuan, Jiao Youying, Chen Fuen · 1 passage

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大學士穆彰阿領樞務，深倚之，歷太僕寺少卿、通政司副使、太僕寺卿，皆留直。 Grand Secretary Muzhang'a headed Grand Council affairs and relied heavily on him; he served in turn as vice director of the Court of the Imperial Stud, vice commissioner of transmission, and director of that court, all while remaining on the council.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 394Volume 394 Biographies 181: Xu Guangjin, Ye Mingchen, Huang Zonghan · 1 passage

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三十年，文翰又遺書大學士穆彰阿、耆英，遣人至上海、天津投遞。 In the thirtieth year (1850) Bonham again wrote to Grand Secretaries Mujangga and Qiying and sent couriers to deliver the letters at Shanghai and Tianjin.