Yongzheng Emperor (雍正帝)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yongzheng Emperor as a ruler. This record brings together 7 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yongzheng Emperor	雍正帝	Yongzheng Di
Title	Emperor	帝	Di
Temple	Shizong	世宗
Temple	Shizong	世宗	Shizong
Title	Xian Emperor Shizong	世宗憲皇帝
Regnal	Yongzheng	雍正	Yongzheng
Regnal	Yongzheng	雍正
Temple name	Yongzheng Emperor	世宗	Shizong
Personal	Yongzheng Emperor	世宗
Regnal	Yongzheng Emperor	雍正帝

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:111:s0075, qingshigao:337:s0006
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:286:s0059, qingshigao:472:s0113

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 雍正三年 · Western Year: AD 1725
Explicit · qingshigao:472:s0113
Source Date: Text: 雍正中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1723 · End: AD 1735
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:111:s0074, qingshigao:111:s0075
Source Date: Text: 雍正元年 · Western Year: AD 1723
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:286:s0059
Source Date: Text: 雍正六年 · Western Year: AD 1728
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:111:s0224, qingshigao:111:s0225, qingshigao:337:s0006

Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · qingshigao:111:s0075, qingshigao:337:s0006

Events and relationships

Kind: audience · Role: ruler · Action: granted Lu Chao a special audience · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 雍正六年 · Western Year: AD 1728 · Other Person Id: Lu Chao (盧焯)
Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0006
Kind: political · Role: issuer · Action: ordered-special-promotion · Other Person Id: Liang Yu (梁玉)
Explicit · qingshigao:111:s0225
Kind: legal · Role: authority · Action: rebuked · Other Person Id: Zha Siting (查嗣庭)
Explicit · qingshigao:111:s0075
Kind: legal · Role: authority · Action: rebuked · Other Person Id: Wang Jingqi (汪景祺)
Explicit · qingshigao:111:s0075
Relation: patron-of · Person Id: Liang Yu (梁玉)
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:111:s0225

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 111Volume 111 Treatises 86: Selection and Examinations 6, Kao Ji · 2 passages

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帝責以怨望誹謗，而事實不得謂誣。 The emperor condemned them for seditious slander, though their facts were not false.

帝以諳練才不可多得，命酌量以游擊題補，尤殊恩也。 The emperor ruled that seasoned talent was rare and ordered him considered for battalion commander—a special grace.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 286Volume 286 Biographies 73: Wang Shan, Lao Zhibian, Zhu Tianbao, Tao Yi · 2 passages

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雍正元年，以老乞休，世宗降旨褒嘉，以原官致仕，仍留京師備顧問。 In 1723 he asked to retire on account of age. The Yongzheng Emperor praised him in an edict, let him retire at his former rank, and kept him in Beijing as an adviser.

雍正四年，世宗以諸御史不諳國體，心本無他，詔釋歸，以原職休致還籍。 In 1726 the Yongzheng Emperor, judging that the censors did not understand statecraft but meant no harm, ordered them released to retire at their former ranks and return home.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 337Volume 337 Biographies 124: Lu Chao, Tu Er Bing A, A Si Ha, Gong Zhaolin, Yang Jingsu, Min Eyuan · 2 passages

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雍正六年，解餉詣京師，世宗特召對。 In 1728, while delivering tribute silver to the capital, he was granted a special audience by the Yongzheng Emperor.

上遣大臣閱視，獨東昌得完。 The throne dispatched high officials to inspect the damage; only Dongchang emerged unscathed.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 472Volume 472 Biographies 259: Lu Runxiang, Shi Xu, Yi Ketan, Liang Dingfen, Xu Fang, Lao Naixuan, Shen Cengzhi · 1 passage

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又代陳典學事宜，略言：「伏讀雍正三年世宗憲皇帝諭：'帝王禦宇膺圖，咸資典學。' He also submitted a memorial on classical learning on another's behalf, stating in brief: "I have read with reverence the edict of the Xian Emperor Shizong in the third year of Yongzheng: 'When an emperor takes the realm and receives the mandate, he must rely on classical learning.'