Qing · Scholar and Official

Xi Yuan 熙元

Died AD 1900

Passages
3
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Xi Yuan as a named individual, official, and scholar. This record brings together 3 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 Xi Yuan 熙元 Xi Yuan
Posthumous name Wenzhen 文貞 Wénzhēn
Personal name Xi Yuan 熙元 Xī Yuán

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Named Individual
  • Official
  • Scholar

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: took poison / 仰藥以殉 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1900
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0092

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 光緒二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1900
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0092
  • Source Date: Text: 光緒十五年 · Western Year: AD 1889
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0091

Family

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Career and standing

  • Label: chancellor of the Imperial Academy / 祭酒 · Action: held
    Explicit · qingshigao:468:s0091
  • Label: compiler / 編修 · Action: held
    Explicit · qingshigao:468:s0091
  • Label: ancillary worship at Tang Han Yu shrine / 附祀唐韓愈祠 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年後 · Western Year: AD 1903
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0094
  • Label: minister of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices / 太常寺卿 · Action: posthumously-granted
    Explicit · qingshigao:468:s0093

Learning and skills

  • Credential: jinshi / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十五年 · Western Year: AD 1889
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0091

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 · 3 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.