Ying Gui (英桂) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Ying Gui as a military officer, named individual, official, and statesman. This record brings together 8 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	Ying Gui	英桂	Ying Gui
Clan or house name	Hesheli	赫舍哩氏	Hesheli
Posthumous name	Wenqin	文勤	Wenqin
Courtesy name	Xiangyan	香巖	Xiangyan
Personal name	Ying Gui	英桂	Ying Gui

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:133:s0166, qingshigao:440:s0003

Roles

Military Officer
Named Individual
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒五年 · Western Year: AD 1879
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 光緒三年 · Western Year: AD 1877
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Source Date: Text: 光緒五年 · Western Year: AD 1879
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Source Date: Text: 光緒元年 · Western Year: AD 1875
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Source Date: Text: 光緒四年 · Western Year: AD 1878
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Source Date: Text: 同治七年 · Western Year: AD 1868
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Source Date: Text: 同治二年 · Western Year: AD 1863
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Source Date: Text: 同治元年 · Western Year: AD 1862
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Source Date: Text: 同治十一年 · Western Year: AD 1872
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Source Date: Text: 咸豐三年 · Western Year: AD 1853
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Source Date: Text: 道光元年 · Western Year: AD 1821
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Origins and identity

Ethnicity: Manchu / 滿洲
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Lineage: Hesheli clan / 赫舍哩氏
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Career and standing

Label: acting governor-general of Fujian and Zhejiang / 署閩浙總督 · Action: acted-as · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治七年 · Western Year: AD 1868
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Label: acting financial commissioner / 署布政使 · Action: acted-as
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Label: grand secretary of the Tiren Hall / 體仁閣大學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒三年 · Western Year: AD 1877
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Label: associate grand secretary / 協辦大學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒元年 · Western Year: AD 1875
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Label: minister of war / 兵部尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治十一年 · Western Year: AD 1872
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Label: Grand Council clerk / 軍機章京 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光元年 · Western Year: AD 1821
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Label: grand minister of the interior / 內大臣 · Action: appointed
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Label: prefect of Qingzhou, Shandong / 山東青州知府 · Action: appointed
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Label: commander of the Metropolitan Garrison / 步軍統領 · Action: concurrent
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Label: superintendent of the Imperial Household Department / 總管內務府大臣 · Action: concurrent
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Label: secretary / Zhongshu / 中書 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光元年 · Western Year: AD 1821
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Label: supervisor of three-province military affairs / 督三省軍務 · Action: ordered
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Label: governor of Henan / 河南巡撫 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐三年 · Western Year: AD 1853
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Label: judicial commissioner of Shanxi / 山西按察使 · Action: promoted
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Label: reader / 侍讀 · Action: promoted
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Label: Board of Civil Appointments / 吏部 · Action: transferred
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Label: general of Fuzhou / 福州將軍 · Action: transferred
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Label: governor of Shanxi / 山西巡撫 · Action: transferred
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Label: intendant of the Deng-Lai-Qing Circuit / 登萊青道 · Action: transferred
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Label: judicial commissioner of Shandong / 山東按察使 · Action: transferred
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Title: Senior Guardian of the Heir Apparent / 太子太保 · Action: posthumously-granted
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Status: retirement · Action: requested · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒四年 · Western Year: AD 1878
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Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
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Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
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Place: Manchu Plain Blue Banner / 滿洲正藍旗
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Place: Qingzhou, Shandong / 山東青州 · Relation: posted-to
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Organization: Manchu Plain Blue Banner / 滿洲正藍旗 · Relation: member-of
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Learning and skills

Credential: provincial graduate (juren) / 舉人 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光元年 · Western Year: AD 1821
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Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Extent Unit Ids: s0012, s0013, s0014 · About Person Ids: Senggebao (勝保), Duo Long'a (多隆阿)
Explicit · qingshigao:440:s0012, qingshigao:440:s0013, qingshigao:440:s0014
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Extent Unit Ids: s0017, s0018, s0019, s0020, s0021, s0022, s0023, s0024, s0025 · About Person Ids: Zuo Zongtang (左宗棠)
Explicit · qingshigao:440:s0017, qingshigao:440:s0018, qingshigao:440:s0019, qingshigao:440:s0020, qingshigao:440:s0021, qingshigao:440:s0022, qingshigao:440:s0023, qingshigao:440:s0024, qingshigao:440:s0025
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Extent Unit Ids: s0026, s0027
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Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: captured · Other Person Id: Wang Tingzhen (王庭貞)
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: captured · Other Person Id: Chen Tai'an (陳太安)
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: Zhang Luoxing (張洛行) · Place: Sanhejian and Yingshang / 三河尖、潁上 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐三年 · Western Year: AD 1853
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defended · Place: Runing / 汝寧
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Kind: administrative · Role: author · Action: drafted-regulations · Item: twelve articles of coastal gunboat regulations / 外海砲艇章程十二條
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Kind: administrative · Role: supervisor · Action: organize-militia-with-gentry
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: organized-defenses · Place: Nanyang / 南陽 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐三年 · Western Year: AD 1853
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:440:s0007, qingshigao:440:s0008

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: elder of established virtue; not unworthy of a prime minister's measure · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:440:s0150

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 133Volume 133 Treatises 108: Military 4, Local Militia · 1 passage

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二年，以都察院代遞山東貢生硃德秀條陳團練事宜，語多可采，命硃德秀回籍，隨同英桂、趙德轍辦理團練，並命英桂督飭官紳，就地方情形，認真辦團，毋得有名無實。 In the second year the Censorate forwarded a memorial on militia from Shandong tribute student Zhu Dexiu, much of it worth adopting. Zhu was ordered home to assist Ying Gui and Zhao Dezhe in organizing militia, and Ying Gui was told to supervise officials and gentry according to local conditions—no empty show.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 440Volume 440 Biographies 227: Ying Gui, Zong Shizailing, En Cheng, Zong Shifukun, Chong Li, Yu De · 7 passages

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英桂宗室載齡恩承宗室福錕崇禮裕德 [Biographies of] Ying Gui, Zongshi Zailing, En Cheng, Zongshi Fukun, Chongli, and Yude

英桂，字香巖，赫舍哩氏，滿洲正藍旗人。 Ying Gui, styled Xiangyan, belonged to the Hesheli clan and came from the Manchu Plain Blue Banner.

粵匪擾湖北，英桂抵南陽籌防，匪踞安徽六安州，馳防汝寧。 When Cantonese rebel bands raided Hubei, Ying Gui went to Nanyang to organize defenses. After the rebels seized Lu'an Prefecture in Anhui, he rushed to bolster the defenses at Runing.

捻首張洛行竄踞雉河集，命英桂督三省軍務，疊敗賊於三河尖、潁上，捕獲教匪陳太安、王庭貞。 When Nian chieftain Zhang Luoxing fled and seized Zhiheji, Ying Gui was ordered to direct military operations across three provinces. He won a series of victories over the rebels at Sanhejian and Yingshang and captured the religious rebels Chen Tai'an and Wang Tingzhen.

英桂奏言：「勝保舊部雖多烏合降眾，久經戰陣。 Ying Gui memorialized to the throne: "Although many of Sheng Bao's former troops were loosely organized surrendered men, they had long seen combat.

五年，卒，贈太子太保，諡文勤。 In the fifth year he died. He was posthumously granted the title Senior Guardian of the Heir Apparent and was given the posthumous name Wenqin.

英桂諸人或起軍功，或承世廕，或嫺文學，或優政事，雖未能顯有名績，而舊德老成，雍容台鼎，亦不愧宰相之器者歟！ Ying Gui and the others had risen through military merit, inherited hereditary privilege, excelled in letters, or distinguished themselves in administration. Although they could not display famous achievements, as elders of established virtue who bore themselves with dignity at the pinnacle of state, they were surely not unworthy of the measure of a prime minister!