Qing · Official

Ruichang 瑞常

Ruìcháng

Died AD 1872

Passages
13
Chapters
3
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Ruichang as a diplomat, judge, official, and statesman. This record brings together 13 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Ruichang 瑞常 Ruìcháng
Personal name Rui Chang 瑞常 Rui Chang
Personal name Ruichang 瑞常 Ruìcháng
Personal name Ruichang 瑞常 Ruichang
Posthumous name Wenduan 文端 Wenduan
Courtesy name Zhisheng 芝生 Zhisheng
Clan 石爾德特氏 Shierdete

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Diplomat
  • Judge
  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治十一年 · Western Year: AD 1872

Attested activity

Family

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  • Parent of Wenhui (文暉)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Origins and identity

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
  • Label: Grand Secretary of the Hall of Literary Depth / 文淵閣大學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治十年 · Western Year: AD 1871
  • Label: Left Censor-in-Chief / 左都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐七年 · Western Year: AD 1857
  • Label: Left Censor-in-Chief / 左都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐七年八月甲子 · Western Year: AD 1857
  • Label: Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs / 理藩院尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年九月壬午 · Western Year: AD 1858
  • Label: Chief envoy to Korea / 冊封朝鮮正使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十九年 · Western Year: AD 1849
  • Label: Vice Minister of War / 兵部侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十五年 · Western Year: AD 1845
  • Label: Manchu Left Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate / 都察院滿左都御史 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年九月壬午 · Western Year: AD 1858
  • Label: Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs / 理藩院尚書 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年十二月庚午 · Western Year: AD 1858
  • Title: posthumous title Wenduan / 諡文端 · Action: granted
  • Title: Grand Tutor / 太保 · Action: posthumously-granted

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十二年 · Western Year: AD 1832

Works and attributed material

  • Work: The Precious Mirror for Ordering Peace / 治平寶鑑 · Relation: lecturer

Events and relationships

  • Kind: investigation · Role: investigator · Action: Baoyuan-Bureau-embezzlement · Other Person Id: Shen Zhaolin (沈兆霖) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐十年 · Western Year: AD 1860
  • Kind: investigation · Role: investigator · Action: Liu-Rong-case · Other Person Id: Luo Dunyan (羅惇衍) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治四年 · Western Year: AD 1865
  • Kind: personnel · Role: official · Action: transferred-from-censor-in-chief · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年九月壬午 · Western Year: AD 1858
  • Kind: personnel · Role: official · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年十二月庚午 · Western Year: AD 1858

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: upright-and-without-fault · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment

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 · 3 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 389Volume 389 Biographies 176: Bai Jun, Lin Kui, Rui Chang, Quan Qing · 9 passages
言官遂劾壽圖湎酒廢事,舉劾不公,並訐蓉漏洩之罪,於是命瑞常偕尚書羅惇衍往按之,疏白其無罪,惟坐壽圖演戲及蓉陳奏失當,並予薄譴。 Censors then charged Shoutu with drunken neglect and unfair personnel decisions, and accused Liu Rong of leaking secrets. Rui Chang and Minister Luo Dunyan were sent to investigate and cleared them of serious guilt, finding only that Shoutu had attended plays and Liu's memorial was improper; both received mild censure.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 390Volume 390 Biographies 177: Jia Zhen, Zhou Zupei, Zhu Fengbiao, Dan Maoqian · 1 passage