Song Kecheng (宋可成)

Overview

The translated histories identify Song Kecheng as an astronomer and official. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Song Kecheng	宋可成	Song Kecheng
Alternate	Kecheng	可成

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:272:s0052

Roles

Astronomer
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 康熙五年議 · Western Year: AD 1666
Explicit · qingshigao:272:s0052

Family

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Parent of Song Zhe (哲)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: Spring Officer / 春官正 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:272:s0052
Status: executed by decapitation · Action: executed
Explicit · qingshigao:272:s0056
Status: sentenced to death by slicing · Action: sentenced
Explicit · qingshigao:272:s0052

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 272Volume 272 Biographies 59: Tang Ruowang, Yang Guangxian, Nan Huai Ren · 2 passages

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湯若望及刻漏科杜如預、五官挈壺正楊宏量、歷科李祖白、春官正宋可成、秋官正宋發、冬官正硃光顯、中官正劉有泰皆凌遲處死； Tang Ruowang, Clepsydra officer Du Ruyu, water-clock officer Yang Hongliang, calendar officer Li Zubai, Spring Officer Song Kecheng, Autumn Officer Song Fa, Winter Officer Zhu Guangxian, and Central Officer Liu Youtai were all sentenced to death by slicing;

得旨，湯若望等並免流徙，祖白、可成、發、光顯、有泰皆斬。 The throne spared Tang Ruowang and the others exile; Li Zubai, Song Kecheng, Song Fa, Zhu Guangxian, and Liu Youtai were executed.