Peng Yuanrui (彭元瑞)

Overview

Peng Yuanrui was a scholar Official and Writer.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Yunmei	芸楣	Yunmei
Posthumous name	Wenqin	文勤	Wenqin

Life and dates

Death

AD 1803 旋卒
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 272

Attested activity

AD 1757 乾隆二十二年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 248
AD 1790 五十五年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 320, passages 262-264
AD 1791 五十六年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passages 265-266
AD 1803 八年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 320, passages 270-272
AD 1799 嘉慶四年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passages 267-269
AD 1770 高宗六十壽
Derived from the source · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 255

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Kin of Grand-nephew of Peng Yuanrui (彭元瑞從孫)
grand-nephew 從孫 · paternal line · 2 generations
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 265
Parent of Peng Yimeng (彭翼蒙)
son 子 · paternal line
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 268

Career and standing

Associate Grand Secretary 協辦大學士
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 264
Compiler 編修
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 249
Hanlin bachelor 庶吉士
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 248
Minister of Personnel 吏部尚書
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 261
Minister of War 兵部尚書
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 261
Vice Minister of Personnel 吏部侍郎
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 254

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Vice Minister of Revenue 戶部侍郎
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 254
Vice Minister of War 兵部侍郎
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 254
Vice Minister of Works 工部侍郎
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 254
Vice Minister of Rites 禮部侍郎
Demoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 265
Junior Mentor to the Crown Prince 太子少保
Granted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 264
Associate Grand Secretary 協辦大學士
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 272
Junior Vice-Director of the Heir Apparent's Household 詹事府少詹事
Promoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 252
Lecturer 侍講
Promoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 251
Minister of Rites 禮部尚書
Promoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 261
Minister of Works 工部尚書
Restored
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 266
Senior Mentor to the Crown Prince 太子太保
Granted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 267
sacrificial offerings and Worthies' Shrine 賜祭，並祀賢良祠
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 277
Requested then granted after delay
Retirement
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 270
Charged then pardoned
Referred for deliberation · Authority Renzong (仁宗)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 268
Vice Minister of Rites 禮部侍郎
AD 1791 五十六年 · Demotion · Demoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 265

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 248
At Nanchang, Jiangxi 江西南昌
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 247
At Maoqin Hall 懋勤殿 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 249
At Southern Library 南書房 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passages 253, 265

Learning and skills

Earned
AD 1757 乾隆二十二年 · Credential jinshi 進士
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 248

Works and attributed material

Court Memorials 經進藁
Relation Author
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 276
Postscripts from the Studio of Knowing the Sage's Way 知聖道齋跋尾
Relation Author
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 276
rearranged Thousand-Character Classic colophon 重次周興嗣千字文為跋
Relation Author
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 256
Veritable Record of Gaozong 高宗實錄
Relation Chief editor
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passages 269, 271
Ningshou Antique Mirror 寧壽鑑古
Relation Compiler
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 274
Secret Hall Pearl Forest 秘殿珠林
Relation Compiler
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 274

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Stone Canal Treasure Collection 石渠寶笈
Relation Compiler
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 274
Tianlu Linlang 天祿琳瑯
Relation Compiler
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 274
Western Purification Antique Mirror 西清古鑑
Relation Compiler
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 274
Couplets · Author · At Ningshou Palace and Huangji Hall 寧壽宮、皇極殿
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 258
Edict · Addressee · With Gaozong (高宗)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 257
Fu · Author · three ceremonial fu
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 260
Hymn · Author · With Gaozong (高宗) · modeled on the Preface to the Sacred Teachings
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 255
Poem · Author · eight-geng complete-rhyme poem for the eightieth birthday
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passages 262-263
Prayer text · Author · Gaozong interment prayer
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 267

Events and relationships

Composed matching stanzas and eulogies
Literary · Author
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 275
Excused from grand examination for inner court service
Examination · Exempted examinee
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 250
Impeached himself after son's dismissal
Legal · Self impeacher
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 268
Sacrifice lecture and ceremonial plowing
Ritual · Participant · At Imperial Academy 辟雍
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 259
Relation Recommender of · Person Miu Jin (繆晉)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 268

Assessments and attributes

Assessment a mind of rare invention · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Gaozong (高宗)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 257
Assessment pleased the Emperor · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Gaozong (高宗)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 255
Assessment the prayer text was appropriate · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Renzong (仁宗)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 267
Assessment won imperial favor through literary gifts · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 273
Item sable coat, inkstone, and ink 貂裘、硯、墨 · Relation Bestowed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 257

Source notes

Value historical
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 247

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 320Volume 320 Biographies 107: San Bao, Yong Gui, Cai Xin, Cheng Jingyi, Liang Guozhi, Ying Lian, Peng Yuanrui, Ji Yun, Lu Xixiong, Lu Feichi · 7 passages

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彭元瑞，字芸楣，江西南昌人。 Peng Yuanrui, styled Yunmei, was from Nanchang in Jiangxi.

上製全韻詩，元瑞重次周興嗣千字文為跋。 When the Emperor wrote a fully rhymed poem, Yuanrui reworked Zhou Xingsi's Thousand-Character Classic into a colophon.

嘉慶四年，高宗奉安禮成，元瑞撰祝文，仁宗嘉其得體，加太子太保。 In Jiaqing 4 (1799), when Gaozong's interment rites were complete, Yuanrui's prayer text pleased Renzong, who made him Senior Mentor to the Crown Prince.

元瑞子翼蒙，官江南鹽巡道，坐事免，元瑞自劾，又坐誤舉編修繆晉，下吏議，上皆寬之。 Yuanrui's son Yimeng, intendant of the Jiangnan Salt Circuit, was dismissed for misconduct; Yuanrui impeached himself and was also charged with wrongly recommending Compiler Miu Jin—both cases went to the judicial officials, and the Emperor showed lenience in each.

旋卒，贈協辦大學士，諡文勤。 He died soon after, and was posthumously made Associate Grand Secretary with the posthumous name Wenqin.

元瑞以文學被知遇。 Yuanrui owed his rise to imperial favor won by his literary gifts.

內廷著錄藏書及書畫、彝鼎，輯秘殿珠林、石渠寶笈、西清古鑑、寧壽鑑古、天祿琳瑯諸書，元瑞無役不與。 Whether the Inner Court was cataloguing books, paintings, or bronzes, or compiling works such as Secret Hall Pearl Forest, Stone Canal Treasure Collection, Western Purification Antique Mirror, Ningshou Antique Mirror, and Tianlu Linlang, Yuanrui had a hand in every project.