Qing · Scholar and Official

Wang Yirong 王懿榮

Died AD 1900

Passages
8
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Yirong as a named individual, official, and scholar. This record brings together 8 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

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Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Wang Yirong 王懿榮 Wang Yirong
Surname Wang 王 Wáng
Personal name Wang Yirong 王懿榮 Wáng Yìróng
Posthumous name Wenmin 文敏 Wénmǐn
Personal name Yirong 懿榮 Yìróng
Courtesy name Zhengru 正孺 Zhèngrú

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Named Individual
  • Official
  • Scholar

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: poison then threw himself into a well / 仰藥…赴井死 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1900
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0082, qingshigao:468:s0084

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 光緒二十一年 · Western Year: AD 1895
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0071
  • Source Date: Text: 光緒二十三年 · Western Year: AD 1897
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0074
  • Source Date: Text: 光緒二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1900
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0076
  • Source Date: Text: 光緒二十年 · Western Year: AD 1894
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0070
  • Source Date: Text: 光緒六年 · Western Year: AD 1880
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0067
  • Source Date: Text: 光緒十二年 · Western Year: AD 1886
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0068

Family

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Career and standing

  • Label: militia-training grand minister / 團練大臣 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1900
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0076
  • Label: compiler / 編修 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒六年 · Western Year: AD 1880
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0067
  • Label: acting chancellor of the Imperial Academy / 署國子監祭酒 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明年 · Western Year: AD 1895
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0071
  • Label: Southern Study duty / 入直南書房 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明年 · Western Year: AD 1895
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0071
  • Label: chancellor of the Imperial Academy / 祭酒 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:468:s0073
  • Label: director in the Ministry of Revenue / 戶部主事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:468:s0066
  • Label: reader / 侍讀 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十年 · Western Year: AD 1894
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0070
  • Label: chancellor of the Imperial Academy / 祭酒 · Action: restored
    Explicit · qingshigao:468:s0074, qingshigao:468:s0075
  • Label: Hanlin bachelor / 庶吉士 · Action: selected · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒六年 · Western Year: AD 1880
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0067
  • Label: ancillary worship at Tang Han Yu shrine / 附祀監署唐韓愈祠 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年後 · Western Year: AD 1903
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0094
  • Label: posthumously granted vice minister / 贈侍郎 · Action: granted
    Explicit · qingshigao:468:s0088
  • Status: mourning · Action: left-office · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Western Year: AD 1886
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0068

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Credential: jinshi / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒六年 · Western Year: AD 1880
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0067
  • Skill: epigraphy / 金石 · Level: renowned
    Explicit · qingshigao:468:s0089

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: mourning · Role: son · Action: mourned-father · Other Person Id: Zu Yuan (祖源) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Western Year: AD 1886
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0068
  • Kind: mourning · Role: son · Action: mourned-mother · Other Person Id: Mother of Wang Yirong (王懿榮母) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 越二年 · Western Year: AD 1897
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0074
  • Kind: military · Role: militia-organizer · Action: requested-leave-to-train-militia · Place: Dengzhou region / 登州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十一年 · Western Year: AD 1895
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0072
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: resisted-allied-armies · Place: Dongbian Gate / 東便門 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 七月 · Western Year: AD 1900
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0079
  • Kind: examination · Role: chief-examiner · Place: Henan / 河南
    Explicit · qingshigao:468:s0069

Assessments and attributes

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 468Volume 468 Biographies 255: Chong Qi Son: Bao Chu Deng, Zhi Jun, Yan Mao Younger Brother: Yan Zhi, Se Pu Zheng E, Wang Yirong, Xi Yuan, Zong Shibaofeng, Zong Shishoufu Younger Brother: Shou Fandeng, Song Chengxiang, Wang Tieshan · 8 passages
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崇綺子葆初等志鈞延茂弟延芝色普徵額王懿榮熙元宗室寶豐宗室壽富弟壽蕃等宋承庠王鐵珊崇綺，字文山，阿魯特氏，蒙古正藍旗人，大學士賽尚阿子。 The subjects of this chapter are Chong Qi (and his son Baochu and others), Zhi Jun, Yan Mao (and his younger brother Yan Zhi), Se Pu Zheng'e, Wang Yirong, Xi Yuan, the imperial clansman Bao Feng, the imperial clansman Shou Fu (and his younger brother Shou Fan and others), Song Chengxiang, and Wang Tieshan. Chong Qi, style name Wenshan, was of the Arut clan, a Mongol of the Plain Blue Banner, and the son of Grand Secretary Sai Shang'a.