Shang Zhixin (尚之信)

Overview

The translated histories identify Shang Zhixin as a family member, general, military officer, 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	Shang Zhixin	尚之信	Shàng Zhīxìn
Personal name	Shang Zhixin	尚之信	Shàng Zhīxìn
Personal	Shang Zhixin	尚之信	Shang Zhixin
Personal	Zhixin	之信

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:269:s0088

Roles

Family Member
General
Military Officer
Rebel
Warlord

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 康熙十二年 · Western Year: AD 1673
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:269:s0088
Source Date: Text: 康熙十五年 · Western Year: AD 1676
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:285:s0017
Source Date: Text: 康熙十五年前後 · Western Year: AD 1676
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:252:s0165

Family

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Child of Shang Kexi (尚可喜)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Events and relationships

Kind: biographical-event · Action: refused Fu Honglie's request for artillery and horses
Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0165
Kind: biographical-event · Action: sent forces whose arrival enabled Fu Honglie's counterattack
Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0172

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · qingshigao:269:s0088

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 252Volume 252 Biographies 39: Gan Wenkun, Fan Chengmo, Ma Xiongzhen, Fu Honglie · 3 passages

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弘烈雖屢捷，惟新軍缺砲馬，假於尚之信，弗應。 Although Honglie won repeated victories, his new army lacked artillery and horses. He asked Shang Zhixin for help but received none.

十八年，之信軍至，弘烈分兵水陸，乘賊攻城時三面夾擊，賊潰走，遂下藤縣，克平樂，進复桂林。 In the eighteenth year Zhixin's army arrived. Honglie divided his forces by land and water and, while the rebels were besieging the city, struck them on three sides. The rebels broke and fled. He retook Tengxian, captured Pinglo, and advanced to recover Guilin.

弘烈密疏言延齡舊部宜善為解散，又言之信怙惡反覆，當早為之所。 Honglie memorialized in secret that Yanling's former troops should be properly disbanded and that Zhixin, habitually treacherous, should be checked before he turned again.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 269Volume 269 Biographies 56: Suo Etu, Ming Zhu · 1 passage

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三桂遂反，精忠及可喜子之信皆叛應之。 Sangui rebelled, and Jingzhong and Kexi's son Zhixin joined him.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 285Volume 285 Biographies 72: Wang Zishou, Yuan Zhouzuo, Li Shihong, Duo Hong An, Wang Xu, Zhang Mengqiu · 1 passage

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鎮南將軍覺羅舒恕率禁旅下廣東，為尚之信將嚴自明所敗，兵退，距贛州三十里。 General Jueluo Shushu led the Banner guards into Guangdong, was beaten by Shang Zhixin's general Yan Ziming, and fell back to within thirty li of Ganzhou.