Xin Congyi (辛從益) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Xin Congyi as an official, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 9 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Xin Congyi	辛從益	Xin Congyi
Given	Congyi	從益	Congyi
Courtesy	Qianshou	謙受	Qianshou
Surname	Xin	辛	Xin
Personal	Xin Congyi	辛從益	Xīn Cóngyì

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0001, qingshigao:379:s0162

Roles

Official
Scholar
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年 · Western Year: AD 1828 · Place: educational commissioner post / 學政任所
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:376:s0046, qingshigao:376:s0029

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 1823
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:376:s0029, qingshigao:376:s0022
Source Date: Text: 乾隆五十五年 · Western Year: AD 1790
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Source Date: Text: 二年 · Western Year: AD 1822
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Source Date: Text: 八年 · Western Year: AD 1828
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:376:s0046, qingshigao:376:s0029
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十七年 · Western Year: AD 1812
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Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十八年 · Western Year: AD 1813
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Source Date: Text: 道光六年前後 · Western Year: AD 1826
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Source Date: Text: 道光初 · Western Year: AD 1821
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0019

Family

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Child of Mother of Xin Congyi
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: educational commissioner of Jiangsu / 江蘇學政 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 1823
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Label: vice minister of Rites / 禮部侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 1823
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Label: Hanlin bachelor / 庶吉士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆五十五年 · Western Year: AD 1790
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Label: Grand Secretariat academician / 內閣學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二年 · Western Year: AD 1822
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Label: censor / 御史 · Action: appointed
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Label: compiler / 編修 · Action: appointed
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Label: counsellor of the Office of Transmission / 通政司參議 · Action: appointed
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Label: minister of the Court of Imperial Entertainments / 光祿寺卿 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0018
Label: minister of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices (Taichang) / 太常寺卿 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0018
Label: reader in the Grand Secretariat / 內閣侍讀學士 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0018
Label: supervising secretary / 給事中 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0013
Label: vice minister of the Court of Imperial Entertainments / 光祿寺少卿 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0018
Label: educational commissioner / 學政 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0162
Label: former office restored / 原官 · Action: restored · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十七年 · Western Year: AD 1812
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0004
Status: retirement · Action: entered
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0003

Places and affiliations

Place: Wanzai, Jiangxi / 江西萬載
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0001

Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆五十五年 · Western Year: AD 1790
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0002

Works and attributed material

Work: collected memorials / 奏疏 · Relation: author
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0047
Work: commentary on the Gongsun Longzi / 公孫龍子注 · Relation: author
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0047
Work: inner and outer collections of poetry and prose / 詩文內外集 · Relation: author
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0047
Kind: report · Role: author · Action: reported-Shaanxi-horse-administration-abuses
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0028
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Action: requested-return-of-refugee-children · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十八年 · Western Year: AD 1813
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0014
Kind: impeachment-memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Chen Guanjun (陳官俊) · Extent: s0019, s0020 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光初 · Western Year: AD 1821
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0019, qingshigao:376:s0020
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Extent: s0006, s0007, s0008, s0009, s0010, s0011, s0012
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0006, qingshigao:376:s0007, qingshigao:376:s0008, qingshigao:376:s0009, qingshigao:376:s0010, qingshigao:376:s0011, qingshigao:376:s0012
Kind: oral-address · Role: speaker · Extent: s0015, s0016, s0017
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0015, qingshigao:376:s0016, qingshigao:376:s0017
Kind: imperial-instruction · Role: addressee · Other Person Id: Daoguang Emperor (道光帝) · Extent: s0023, s0024
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0023, qingshigao:376:s0024
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Extent: s0031, s0032, s0033, s0034, s0035, s0036, s0037, s0038, s0039, s0040, s0041, s0042, s0043
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0031, qingshigao:376:s0032, qingshigao:376:s0033, qingshigao:376:s0034, qingshigao:376:s0035, qingshigao:376:s0036, qingshigao:376:s0037, qingshigao:376:s0038, qingshigao:376:s0039, qingshigao:376:s0040, qingshigao:376:s0041, qingshigao:376:s0042, qingshigao:376:s0043

Events and relationships

Kind: relief · Role: official · Action: managed-fair-price-grain-sales · Place: capital region / 京畿
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0005
Kind: petition · Role: petitioner · Action: requested-retirement-to-care-for-mother
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0003
Kind: judicial · Role: commissioner · Action: tried-cases-in-Shaanxi · Other Person Id: Wen Fu (文孚) · Place: Shaanxi / 陝西
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0025, qingshigao:376:s0026, qingshigao:376:s0027
Relation: opponent-of · Person Id: Tao Shu (陶澍)
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0162

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: praised for delivering real relief · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0005
Assessment: spoke frankly in counsel; bore clear reputation · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0196
Assessment: upright, quiet, candid; contested injustice; would not yield to the powerful · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0045

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 376Volume 376 Biographies 163: Xin Congyi, Zhang Lin, Gu Gao, Shen Weiqiao, Zhu Wei, Cheng Enze, Wu Jie · 8 passages

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辛從益，字謙受，江西萬載人。 Xin Congyi, whose style was Qianshou, came from Wanzai in Jiangxi.

會京畿多雨，詔發廩平糶，從益在事，釐剔弊端，實惠及民，時稱之。 When prolonged rains struck the capital region, the court ordered grain sold from the state granaries at fair price. Congyi took part in the effort, rooted out abuses, and delivered real relief to the people, winning praise at the time.

十八年，滑縣匪平，軍中多攜養難民子女，從益疏請遣送歸家，如議行，並譴領兵大員。 In 1813, after the Huaxian rebels were suppressed, many soldiers had taken in refugee children. Congyi memorialized that they be sent home; the court adopted his proposal and also censured the commanding officers.

道光初，山西學政陳官俊鐫級回京，仍直上書房，從益疏劾曰：「上書房為教冑諭德之地，視學政為尤重，宜慎選德行敦厚、器識宏達之儒臣，使皇子有所觀法，薰陶養其德性。 Early in the Daoguang reign Chen Guanjun, former educational commissioner of Shanxi, was demoted yet still entered the Upper Study Hall. Congyi impeached him, writing: "The Upper Study Hall instructs the heir apparent and tutors the imperial sons—a charge weightier even than provincial educational commissioner. The court should choose Confucian officials of solid virtue and broad capacity so that the princes have models to follow and their moral nature may be cultivated.

從益等鞫得其狀，論如法。 Congyi and his colleagues examined the facts and sentenced the parties according to law.

從益上疏曰：「江蘇漕額本重，豈堪浮收無節？ Congyi memorialized: "Jiangsu's grain transport quota is already heavy. How can it bear unchecked over-collection?

從益廉靜坦白，遇非理必爭，不為權要詘。 Congyi was upright, quiet, and candid. When he met injustice he contested it and would not bow to the powerful.

論曰：宣宗最重文學廉謹之臣，辛從益直言獻納，張鱗廉介絕俗，沈維鐈服膺理學，程恩澤博物冠時，皆負清望。 The commentary states: Emperor Xuanzong most valued literary, incorrupt, and careful ministers. Xin Congyi spoke frankly in counsel, Zhang Lin was upright beyond the common run, Shen Weiqiao embraced Neo-Confucian learning, and Cheng Enze was unrivaled in breadth of learning—all enjoyed clear reputations.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 379Volume 379 Biographies 166: Zhao Shenzhen, Lu Kun, Ceng Sheng, Tao Shu · 1 passage

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學政辛從益意不合，爭之。 The educational commissioner Xin Congyi disagreed and argued against him.