Wen Yu (文煜) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wen Yu as an administrator and official. This record brings together 4 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wen Yu	文煜	Wen Yu
Personal name	Wen Yu	文煜	Wen Yu
Personal	Wenyu	文煜	Wényù
Personal	Wenyu	文煜	Wen Yu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:133:s0139, qingshigao:195:s0069
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0222

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 光緒初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1875 · End: AD 1880
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0222
Source Date: Text: 光緒四年 · Western Year: AD 1878
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:195:s0065, qingshigao:195:s0069
Source Date: Text: 同治元年 · Western Year: AD 1862
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:139:s0156, qingshigao:139:s0160
Source Date: Text: 咸豐十一年 · Western Year: AD 1861
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:133:s0139

Origins and identity

Label: Manchu / 滿
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:195:s0069

Career and standing

Label: Manchu Left Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate / 都察院滿左都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒四年戊寅 · Western Year: AD 1878
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:195:s0069
Label: Zhili militia manager / 直隸團練事宜 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0139

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: lived-under
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:375:s0222
Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0139, qingshigao:195:s0069
Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:139:s0160

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: regulator · Action: fixed-capital-green-standard-combined-formation-rules
Explicit · qingshigao:139:s0160
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Action: memorialized Ji Zhichang achievements for posthumous name
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0222
Kind: personnel · Role: officeholder · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒四年戊寅 · Western Year: AD 1878
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:195:s0069

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · qingshigao:195:s0069

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 133Volume 133 Treatises 108: Military 4, Local Militia · 1 passage

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旋奉諭：「直隸團練大臣桑春榮回京供職，直隸團練事宜，責成文煜辦理。 An edict soon followed: 'Zhili Militia Supervisor Sang Chunrong is to return to the capital; Wen Yu will handle Zhili militia affairs.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 139Volume 139 Treatises 114: Military 10, Training · 1 passage

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是年，令文煜等定京營綠旗兵槍隊砲車合陣之制。 That year Wenyu set rules for capital Green Standard musket and gun-carriage combined drill.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 195Volume 195 Tables 35: Ministers of Boards and Courts Chronological Table 9 Lower · 1 passage

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全慶三月癸亥遷。恩承左都御史。五月辛亥遷。榮祿左都御史。癸亥遷。文煜左都御史。十二月癸卯遷。崇厚左都御史。志和署。 On the guihai day of the third month, 全慶 was transferred. 恩承: Left Censor-in-Chief. On the xinhai day of the fifth month, was transferred. 榮祿: Left Censor-in-Chief. On the guihai day, was transferred. 文煜: Left Censor-in-Chief. On the guimao day of the twelfth month, was transferred. 崇厚: Left Censor-in-Chief. 志和 served in an acting capacity.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 375Volume 375 Biographies 162: Bai Rong, Sun Huan, Shi Zhiyan, Na Qingan, Sheng Yin, Li Zongfang, Yao Yuanzhi, He Rulin, Ji Zhichang, Lie Chuan · 1 passage

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光緒初，署閩浙總督文煜奏陳政績，追諡文敏。 In the early Guangxu reign, Acting Governor-General Wen Yu memorialized his achievements, and the posthumous name Wenmin was granted.