Yang Hu (楊頀) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Yang Hu as an administrator, judge, and official. This record brings together 10 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 Hu	楊頀	Yang Hu
Courtesy name	Maigong	邁功	Maigong
Personal name	Yang Hu	楊頀	Yang Hu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:362:s0062

Roles

Administrator
Judge
Official

Life and dates

Death

Age: 85
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0090

Age

Age: 85 · Reckoning: sui
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0090

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十九年 · Western Year: AD 1784
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:362:s0063
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶九年 · Western Year: AD 1804
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:362:s0079
Source Date: Text: 道光五年 · Western Year: AD 1825
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:362:s0089

Career and standing

Label: secretary in Ministry of Justice / 刑部主事 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0063
Label: Yan-Yu-Sui intendant / 延榆綏道 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0073
Label: surveillance commissioner of Anhui / 安徽按察使 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶九年 · Western Year: AD 1804
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0079
Label: governor of Zhejiang / 浙江巡撫 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十二年 · Western Year: AD 1817
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0085
Label: fourth-rank ministerial commissioner / 四品卿銜 · Action: bestowed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光五年 · Western Year: AD 1825
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0089
Status: retirement · Action: illness
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0088
Label: demoted / 降四品京堂 · Action: demoted
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0086

Places and affiliations

Place: Jinxi, Jiangxi / 江西金谿
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0062

Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十九年 · Western Year: AD 1784
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0063

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Speaker Person Id: Yang Hu (楊頀)
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0068, qingshigao:362:s0069

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: judge · Action: opposed Heshen · Other Person Id: Heshen (和珅)
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0066, qingshigao:362:s0068

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 362Volume 362 Biographies 149: Fang Ji, Zhu Erhan, Yang Hu, Liao Yin, Chen Changqi, Zhu Ergenge, Cha Chonghua · 10 passages

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方積硃爾漢楊頀廖寅陳昌齊硃爾賡額查崇華方積，字有堂，安徽定遠人。 Fang Ji, Zhu Erhan, Yang Hu, Liao Yin, Chen Changqi, Zhu Ergenge, and Cha Chonghua. Fang Ji, whose style name was Youtang, came from Dingyuan in Anhui.

楊頀，字邁功，江西金谿人。 Yang Hu, whose style name was Maigong, came from Jinxi in Jiangxi.

內監訟其弟妻，頀按律杖贖守夫墓。 When a palace eunuch brought suit against his younger brother's wife, Hu sentenced her under statute to a beating commuted by fine and service at her husband's grave.

和珅方總刑部，意有所徇，駁詰之，頀面爭。 Heshen then headed the Ministry of Justice and wanted the case bent his way. He sent the draft back with objections, and Hu argued with him to his face.

頀厲聲曰：「司員主稿，知為刑獄得其平耳！ Hu answered sharply, "A drafting secretary's only concern is that the punishment fit the crime!

時三省清釐叛產，撫卹難民，事方殷，詔責疆吏慎選公正大員如《音蒦》及劉清者任其事。 The three provinces were then sorting confiscated rebel property and relieving war refugees, work that had grown urgent. An edict rebuked frontier governors and told them to appoint upright senior officials of the caliber of Yang Hu and Liu Qing.

頀週曆田野，綜覈不苟，民漸復業。 Hu toured the countryside, checked accounts without cutting corners, and the people gradually returned to their livelihoods.

巡撫秦承恩檄府縣募民補伍，頀曰：「農工商賈各有其業，若預選送營，曠日失業，與抽丁何殊？」 Governor Qin Chengen ordered local governments to recruit civilians to fill army quotas. Hu objected: "Farmers, artisans, merchants, and tradesmen each have their own livelihood. If we select them in advance and send them to camp, they lose their work for long stretches—how is that different from a draft levy?"

詔頀查賑認真，平日實心辦事，留河工效力。 The throne ruled that Hu had investigated relief conscientiously and had always served faithfully, and allowed him to remain on river works instead of leaving office entirely.

他如硃爾漢之保鞏昌，楊頀之清叛產、撫難民，廖寅之擒劉之協，皆卓有建樹。 Others too made distinguished contributions: Zhu Erhan's defense of Gongchang, Yang Hu's sorting of rebel property and relief of refugees, and Liao Yin's capture of Liu Zhixie.