Xiang Rong (向榮) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Xiang Rong as a general and military officer. This record brings together 20 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	Xiang Rong	向榮	Xiang Rong
Title	Regional Commander	提督
Given	Rong	榮	Rong
Surname	Xiang	向	Xiang
Personal name	Xiang Rong	向榮	Xiang Rong
Personal name	Xiang Rong	向榮	Xiàng Róng
Personal name	Xiang Rong	向榮

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:384:s0001, qingshigao:393:s0045, qingshigao:394:s0146
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0020, qingshigao:396:s0031

Roles

General
Military Officer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 咸豐三年 · Western Year: AD 1853
Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0146
Source Date: Text: 咸豐三年 · Western Year: AD 1853
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:398:s0096
Source Date: Text: 咸豐元年 · Western Year: AD 1851
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:392:s0019, qingshigao:392:s0020
Source Date: Text: 咸豐元年 · Western Year: AD 1851
Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0047
Source Date: Text: 咸豐元年至二年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1851 · End: AD 1852
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:396:s0029, qingshigao:396:s0031, qingshigao:396:s0034
Source Date: Text: 提督向榮軍東北 · Western Year: AD 1851
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:384:s0177, qingshigao:384:s0172
Source Date: Text: 道光三十年 · Western Year: AD 1850
Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0045

Career and standing

Label: regional commander / 提督 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0020
Label: Regional Commander / 提督 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0177, qingshigao:396:s0031

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: advanced-Longliao-and-urged-escape-route
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0179, qingshigao:384:s0180
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated-rebels · Place: Zhongping and Guiping / 中坪、桂平 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐元年 · Western Year: AD 1851
Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0031

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: claiming merit while feigning illness · Provenance: Mode: named-person · Source Person Id: Wu Wenrong (吳文鎔)
Explicit · qingshigao:396:s0031

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 384Volume 384 Biographies 171: Lin Peihou, Li Xiangkun, Li Zongchuan, Wang Fengsheng, Huang Mian, Yu De Yuan, Yao Ying · 3 passages

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永安城小，都統烏蘭泰軍西南，提督向榮軍東北，合滇、黔、楚、蜀兵四萬餘人，賊數千壁險死鬥。 Yong'an was a small city; Banner Commander Ulan Tai held the southwest and Regional Commander Xiang Rong the northeast; together they had more than forty thousand troops from Yunnan, Guizhou, Huguang, and Sichuan, while several thousand rebels held the high ground and fought desperately.

瑩與烏蘭泰皆主擊水竇，絕賊外援，向榮不從，自由龍寮嶺進而敗，乃議開水竇一路縱賊逸，尾追擊之。 Yao and Ulan Tai both urged an assault on Shuidou to cut off outside help; Xiang Rong refused, advanced by Longliao Ridge, and was defeated; the command then proposed opening Shuidou to let the rebels escape and chasing them afterward.

瑩力辯其失，賽尚阿仍用向榮策，賊果突圍出犯桂林，烏蘭泰戰死，賽尚阿逮問。 Yao argued strenuously against the plan, but Saišangga followed Xiang Rong's strategy; the rebels broke out, struck toward Guilin, Ulan Tai was killed in battle, and Saišangga was arrested.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 392Volume 392 Biographies 179: Sai Shang A, Ne Er Jing E · 7 passages

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時廣西匪亂方熾，巡撫週天爵、提督向榮會剿，不能制賊，起用林則徐，未至，道卒。 At that time the rebellion in Guangxi was blazing; Governor Zhou Tianjue and Regional Commander Xiang Rong campaigned together but could not contain the rebels; Lin Zexu was brought back into service but died on the journey before he arrived.

週天爵與向榮不協，解其任，以鄒鳴鶴代之。 Because Zhou Tianjue and Xiang Rong could not work together, Zhou was dismissed and Zou Minghe was appointed governor in his stead.

於是向榮連破賊於中坪及桂平新墟。 Thereupon Xiang Rong won successive victories over the rebels at Zhongping and at Guiping's new market town.

向榮任北路，烏蘭泰任南路。 Xiang Rong took the northern sector and Wulantai the southern.

二年正月，賽尚阿親往督之，用向榮策，缺城北一隅不置兵，縱其出，因而擊之。 In the first month of the second year (1852) Sai Shang'a went in person to direct operations; following Xiang Rong's plan, he left one stretch of the north wall unguarded, let the rebels break out, and then attacked them.

烏蘭泰爭之不得，素與榮不協，至是益相水火。 Wulantai objected but could not prevail; he had long been at odds with Xiang Rong, and now their hostility became outright.

而賊遽犯桂林，向榮走間道入城守禦，烏蘭泰尾追至將軍橋，猝被砲傷，旋殞於軍，總兵長瑞、長壽、董光甲、邵鶴齡亦戰歿。 but the rebels at once threatened Guilin; Xiang Rong slipped into the city by a side road to organize the defense; Wulantai pursued to Jiangjun Bridge, was struck down by artillery, and died in camp; brigade generals Chang Rui, Chang Shou, Dong Guangjia, and Shao Heling also fell in battle.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 393Volume 393 Biographies 180: Li Xingyuan, Zhou Tianjue, Lao Chongguang · 6 passages

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巡撫鄭祖琛、提督閔正鳳皆以貽誤黜去，週天爵、向榮繼為巡撫、提督。 Governor Zheng Zuchen and military commander Min Zhengfeng were both dismissed for negligence; Zhou Tianjue and Xiang Rong succeeded them as governor and military commander respectively.

咸豐元年春，向榮進剿，賊由大黃江、牛排嶺竄新墟、紫荊山。 In the spring of 1851, Xiang Rong advanced to suppress them; the rebels fled from the Dahuang River and Niupai Ridge toward Xinxu and Zijing Mountain.

榮、天爵各進擊，賊踞東鄉，兩軍攻之不克。 Xiang Rong and Zhou Tianjue each advanced to attack, but the rebels held Dongxiang and both armies failed to dislodge them.

咸豐元年春，親率兵與向榮會剿金田匪洪秀全等。 In the spring of 1851 he personally led troops to join Xiang Rong in suppressing Hong Xiuquan and the Jintian rebels.

天爵年近八旬，每戰親臨前敵，惟與李星沅、向榮皆不協。 Though nearly eighty, Tianjue personally went to the front in every battle, yet he could not cooperate with either Li Xingyuan or Xiang Rong.

慶遠賊竄武緣、賓州，崇光偕提督向榮會剿。 Rebels from Qingyuan fled to Wuyuan and Binzhou; Chongguang joined military commander Xiang Rong in a joint suppression campaign.

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

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時江南大營需餉甚鉅，宗漢貽書向榮，通盤籌算，請於江蘇、浙江、江西三省確定每月額數。 The great Jiangnan camp needed vast supplies; Zonghan wrote to Xiang Rong with a comprehensive plan to fix monthly quotas from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi.

榮據以上聞，文宗韙之。 Xiang forwarded the plan to the throne, and the Xianfeng Emperor approved it.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 396Volume 396 Biographies 183: Wu Wenrong, Pan Duo, Deng Erheng · 1 passage

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粵匪日熾，文鎔疏論提督向榮冒功託病，恐誤軍事，詔選將才，奏保游擊巴揚阿等九人。 The Taiping rebels grew daily stronger; Wenrong memorialized that Regional Commander Xiang Rong was claiming merit while feigning illness, fearing this would harm military affairs; the court ordered selection of capable generals, and he memorialized recommending nine men including Assistant Regional Commander Bayang'a.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 398Volume 398 Biographies 185: Zong Shixianghou, Huo Longwu, Fu Zhu Hong A, En Zhang, Chen Shengyuan, Qi Suzao, Chen Kerang, Liu Tongying, Rui Chang, Jie Chun, Xi Ling A · 1 passage

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賊初至，假向榮書請入城，同纓察其詐，卻之。 When the rebels first arrived they forged a letter from Xiang Rong asking to be admitted into the city. Tongying saw through the ruse and refused.