Yang Hongliang (楊宏量)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yang Hongliang as an astronomer and official. 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	Yang Hongliang	楊宏量	Yang Hongliang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:272:s0052

Roles

Astronomer
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 康熙五年議 · Western Year: AD 1666
Explicit · qingshigao:272:s0052

Career and standing

Label: Five Offices Water-clock Officer / 五官挈壺正 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:272:s0052
Status: death sentence remitted · Action: pardoned
Explicit · qingshigao:272:s0054
Status: sentenced to death by slicing · Action: sentenced
Explicit · qingshigao:272:s0052

Events and relationships

Kind: technical · Role: surveyor · Action: surveyed tomb site
Explicit · qingshigao:272:s0054

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 272Volume 272 Biographies 59: Tang Ruowang, Yang Guangxian, Nan Huai Ren · 2 passages

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湯若望及刻漏科杜如預、五官挈壺正楊宏量、歷科李祖白、春官正宋可成、秋官正宋發、冬官正硃光顯、中官正劉有泰皆凌遲處死； Tang Ruowang, Clepsydra officer Du Ruyu, water-clock officer Yang Hongliang, calendar officer Li Zubai, Spring Officer Song Kecheng, Autumn Officer Song Fa, Winter Officer Zhu Guangxian, and Central Officer Liu Youtai were all sentenced to death by slicing;

得旨，湯若望效力多年，又復衰老，杜如預、楊宏量勘定陵地有勞，皆免死，並令覆議。 The throne replied: Tang Ruowang had served many years and was now old; Du Ruyu and Yang Hongliang had toiled surveying the tomb site—all were spared death, and the case was sent back for review.