Yao Yanzhu (姚延著) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Yao Yanzhu as an administrator, judge, and official. This record brings together 15 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	Yao Yanzhu	姚延著	Yao Yanzhu
Courtesy	Xiangxuan	象懸	Xiangxuan
Given	Yanzhu	延著

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Administrator
Judge
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution · Place: Jiangning / 江寧 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 順治十六年 · Western Year: AD 1659
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 順治六年 · Western Year: AD 1649
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Source Date: Text: 順治十六年 · Western Year: AD 1659
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Family

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Parent of Yao Chunxi (姚淳燾)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: Prefect of Qingyuan, Guangxi / 廣西慶遠知府 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 順治六年 · Western Year: AD 1649
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Label: Left Administrative Commissioner of Henan / 河南左布政使 · Action: promoted
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Label: Provincial surveillance commissioner of Jiangnan / 江南按察使 · Action: promoted
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Label: Vice commissioner of Lingnan Circuit, Guangdong / 廣東嶺南道副使 · Action: promoted
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Label: Prefect of Liuzhou / 柳州知府 · Action: transferred
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Label: Prefect of Pingle / 平樂知府 · Action: transferred
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Status: mourning-leave · Action: entered
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Label: sentenced to strangulation / 坐絞 · Action: suffered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 順治十六年 · Western Year: AD 1659
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Places and affiliations

Place: Wucheng, Zhejiang / 浙江烏程
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Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 順治六年 · Western Year: AD 1649
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Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Lang Tingzuo (郎廷佐) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 順治十六年 · Western Year: AD 1659
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Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: defender · Action: assisted-defense · Place: Jiangning / 江寧 · Other Person Id: Lang Tingzuo (郎廷佐) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 順治十六年 · Western Year: AD 1659
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Kind: humanitarian · Role: official · Action: restored-abducted-women · Quantity: 1700 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 順治十六年 · Western Year: AD 1659
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Kind: legal · Role: judge · Action: spared-accused-spy · Other Person Id: Kekemu (喀喀木) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 順治十六年 · Western Year: AD 1659
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Kind: legal · Role: judge · Action: tried-jintan-case · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 順治十六年 · Western Year: AD 1659
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: Kekemu was behind his death · Provenance: Mode: rumor
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Assessment: tempered stern measures with mercy; fulfilled his duty · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Item: shrine below Jiming Hill / 雞鳴山下祠 · Relation: commemorated-at
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References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 247Volume 247 Biographies 34: Peng Ershu, Lu Zhenfen, Yao Yanzhu, Bi Zhenji, Fang Guodong, Yu Pengju, Wang Tianjian, Yue Tingbiao · 15 passages

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姚延著，字象懸，浙江烏程人。 Yao Yanzhu, courtesy name Xiangxuan, came from Wucheng in Zhejiang.

延著佐總督郎廷佐繕守備，安輯危城，閭閻不擾。 Yanzhu assisted Governor Lang Tingzuo in organizing the defenses, steadied the besieged city, and kept the populace from panic.

延著謂廷佐曰：「寇在門，不可興大獄、搖人心。」 Yanzhu told Tingzuo: "The enemy is at our gates—we cannot open a sweeping trial and unsettle the people."

延著嚴治反坐，多所全活。 Yanzhu cracked down hard on malicious prosecution and spared many innocent lives.

城民有升高而望者，邏者執之，總管喀喀木以為敵諜，延著力爭，得不死。 Patrols seized a townsman who had climbed up to look around; Commander Kekemu judged him a spy, but Yanzhu argued fiercely and the man was spared execution.

喀喀木部兵擾城市，延著捕得械斃之。 Troops under Kekemu were harassing the city; Yanzhu arrested the offenders and had them strangled.

吏卒私掠被難婦女，延著親駐江乾，召其家，遣還者一千七百人，以此忤喀喀木。 Clerks and soldiers were seizing women caught up in the turmoil; Yanzhu went in person to the riverbank, called their families forward, and restored seventeen hundred women to their homes—an act that put him at odds with Kekemu.

巡按馬勝聲疏聞，下廷佐令延著鞫其獄。 Censor Ma Shengsheng reported the matter to the throne; the case was referred to Tingzuo with orders for Yanzhu to hear it.

延著縶縣吏李鍾秀，訊得實，欲但坐體坤，餘皆減罪。 Yanzhu arrested county clerk Li Zhongxiu, questioned him until the facts came out, and sought to punish only Tikun while leniency for the others.

大受騰書京師為蜚語，欲並陷延著，御史馮班發其狀。 Dashou sent inflammatory letters to the capital hoping to drag Yanzhu down too, but Censor Feng Ban exposed what he was doing.

巡按何可化又疏劾延著讞從叛罪人史記青、管得勝傅輕比，又有王天福、韓王錫並縱不擬罪，與金壇獄並論，亦坐絞。 Censor He Kehua memorialized again, accusing Yanzhu of applying light statutes to the rebel criminals Shi Jiqing and Guan Desheng, and of releasing Wang Tianfu and Han Wangxi without punishment; lumped together with the Jintan affair, Yanzhu was also sentenced to strangulation.