Xi En (禧恩) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Xi En as a general, military officer, official, and statesman. This record brings together 9 passages from 6 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Xi En	禧恩	Xi En
Title	Minister	尚書
Personal name	Xi'en	禧恩	Xǐ'ēn
Personal	Xi'en	禧恩	Xǐ'ēn
Personal	Xi'en	禧恩	Xi'en
Personal	Xien	禧恩	Xǐ'ēn
Personal		禧恩

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:366:s0188, qingshigao:373:s0155, qingshigao:379:s0108, qingshigao:392:s0115
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:382:s0016

Roles

General
Military Officer
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 道光十二年 · Regnal Year: 12 · Western Year: AD 1832
Explicit · qingshigao:382:s0016
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十八年癸酉 · Regnal Year: 18 · Western Year: AD 1813
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:187:s0215, qingshigao:187:s0218
Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Western Year: AD 1832
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:373:s0155, qingshigao:379:s0102, qingshigao:379:s0108
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十九年正月壬辰 · Western Year: AD 1814
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:187:s0225, qingshigao:187:s0227, qingshigao:187:s0228
Source Date: Text: 道光以來 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1821 · End: AD 1850
Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0115
Source Date: Text: 道光十二年 · Western Year: AD 1832
Explicit · qingshigao:366:s0188

Career and standing

Label: Right Vice Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs / 理藩院右侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十八年癸酉 · Regnal Year: 18 · Western Year: AD 1813
Explicit · qingshigao:187:s0218
Title: Left Vice Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs / 理藩院左侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十九年正月壬辰 · Western Year: AD 1814
Explicit · qingshigao:187:s0227
Title: Right Vice Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs / 理藩院右侍郎 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十九年正月壬辰 · Western Year: AD 1814
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:187:s0228
Label: minister / 尚書 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0108
Label: Minister / 尚書 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:366:s0188, qingshigao:382:s0016
Title: Minister / 尚書 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0155

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:187:s0218
Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0155
Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:187:s0227, qingshigao:187:s0228, qingshigao:392:s0115

Works and attributed material

Kind: report · Role: author · Other Person Id: Li Hongbin (李鴻賓)
Explicit · qingshigao:366:s0188

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: campaigned-against-Yao
Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0115
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: led · Other Person Id: Yu Buyun (余步雲)
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0155
Kind: military · Role: joint-commander · Action: ordered-to-suppress-Zhao-Jinlong · Other Person Id: Zhao Jinlong (趙金龍)
Explicit · qingshigao:382:s0016
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: reported-on-guangdong-troops · Other Person Id: Li Hongbin (李鴻賓)
Explicit · qingshigao:366:s0188
Kind: personnel · Role: official · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十九年三月癸卯 · Western Year: AD 1814
Explicit · qingshigao:187:s0227
Kind: personnel · Role: official · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十九年正月壬辰 · Western Year: AD 1814
Explicit · qingshigao:187:s0228

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: arrogance and extravagance invited censure · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0115

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0155

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 187Volume 187 Tables 27: Ministers of Boards and Courts Chronological Table 5 Lower · 3 passages

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普恭八月壬子遷。瑚圖禮理藩院右侍郎。九月己卯遷。禧恩理藩院右侍郎。 On the renzi day of the eighth month, 普恭 was transferred. 瑚圖禮: Right Vice Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs. On the jimao day of the ninth month, was transferred. 禧恩: Right Vice Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs.

普恭正月壬辰遷。禧恩理藩院左侍郎。三月癸卯遷。英綬理藩院左侍郎。五月乙未遷。玉福理藩院左侍郎。 On the renchen day of the first month, 普恭 was transferred. 禧恩: Left Vice Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs. On the guimao day of the third month, was transferred. 英綬: Left Vice Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs. On the yiwei day of the fifth month, was transferred. 玉福: Left Vice Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs.

禧恩正月壬辰遷。那彥寶理藩院右侍郎。閏二月甲子遷。英綬理藩院右侍郎。三月癸卯遷。玉福理藩院右侍郎。五月乙未遷。熙昌理藩院右侍郎。七月壬子遷。蘇沖阿理藩院右侍郎。 On the renchen day of the first month, 禧恩 was transferred. 那彥寶: Right Vice Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs. On the jiazi day of the intercalary second month, was transferred. 英綬: Right Vice Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs. On the guimao day of the third month, was transferred. 玉福: Right Vice Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs. On the yiwei day of the fifth month, was transferred. 熙昌: Right Vice Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs. On the renzi day of the seventh month, was transferred. 蘇沖阿: Right Vice Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 366Volume 366 Biographies 153: Sun Yuting, Jiang Youxian, Li Hongbin · 1 passage

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命尚書禧恩等由湖南移師赴粵剿辦，禧恩言：「粵兵多食鴉片，不耐山險，鴻賓陳奏不實。」 Minister Xi'en and others were ordered to move troops from Hunan to Guangdong to suppress the rebellion. Xi'en reported: "Guangdong troops mostly use opium and cannot endure mountain terrain. Li Hongbin's memorials are not truthful."

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 373Volume 373 Biographies 160: Zong Shiyishan, Long Wen, Zong Shiyijing, Wen Wei, Te Yi Shun, Yu Buyun · 1 passage

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從尚書禧恩赴廣東剿連州瑤，平之，賜雙眼花翎，予一等輕車都尉世職。 He followed Minister Xi'en to Guangdong, pacified the Lianzhou Yao, received the double-eyed peacock feather, and was given the hereditary rank of First Class Commandant of Light Chariots.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 379Volume 379 Biographies 166: Zhao Shenzhen, Lu Kun, Ceng Sheng, Tao Shu · 2 passages

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尚書禧恩、將軍瑚松額方奉命視師，未至，賊已平。 The minister Xien and the general Husong'e had been ordered to take command of the campaign, but before they arrived the rebels had already been suppressed.

偕禧恩等先後往督諸將進剿，瑤疆悉平。 Together with Xien and others he went in turn to direct the generals in the campaign, and the Yao territories were entirely pacified.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 382Volume 382 Biographies 169: Hu Song E, Bu Yan Tai, Sa Ying A · 1 passage

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十二年，命偕尚書禧恩督師剿湖南瑤匪趙金龍，至則金龍已就戮，其黨趙青仔率餘匪竄廣東、湖北境，督兵剿平之。 In the twelfth year he was ordered with Minister Xi'en to command the suppression of the Hunan Yao rebel Zhao Jinlong; by the time they arrived Jinlong was already dead, but his lieutenant Zhao Qingzai had fled with the survivors into the Guangdong–Hubei borderlands, and Hu Song'e led troops to crush them.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 392Volume 392 Biographies 179: Sai Shang A, Ne Er Jing E · 1 passage

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其後禧恩之徵瑤，奕山、奕經之防海，或以驕侈召謗，或以輕率僨事。 After that, Xi'en's campaign against the Yao and the coastal defense efforts of Yishan and Yijing brought censure through arrogance and extravagance in some cases and failure through rashness in others.