Wu Chongyao (伍崇曜)

Overview

The translated histories identify Wu Chongyao as an official and scholar. 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	Wu Chongyao	伍崇曜	Wu Chongyao
Personal name	Wu Chongyao	伍崇曜

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:394:s0042

Roles

Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 咸豐七年 · Western Year: AD 1857
Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0122
Source Date: Text: 道光二十九年 · Western Year: AD 1849
Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0042

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 394Volume 394 Biographies 181: Xu Guangjin, Ye Mingchen, Huang Zonghan · 2 passages

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於是錫封廣縉一等子爵，賜雙眼花翎，是役商民一心，尤得紳士許祥光、伍崇曜之力為多，二人並被優擢。 Guangjin was then created a first-class baron and granted the double-eyed peacock feather. In this affair merchants and commoners stood together, with particular help from the gentrymen Xu Xiangguang and Wu Chongyao, both of whom received exceptional promotions.

巡撫柏貴檄紳士伍崇曜等議和，名琛猶持不許入城之議，夜避左都統署，英人大索得之，舁登舟。 Governor Bogui summoned gentry including Wu Chongyao to negotiate peace; Mingchen still clung to his refusal of entry into the city, fled at night to a Manchu banner office, was hunted down by the British, and carried off to their ships.