Yu Dian (餘甸) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Yu Dian as a judge, official, scholar, and teacher. This record brings together 14 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	Yu Dian	餘甸	Yu Dian
Given name	Dian	甸	Dian
Courtesy name	Tiansheng	田生	Tiansheng
Surname	Yu	餘	Yu
Personal name	Yu Dian	餘甸	Yu Dian

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Value: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:300:s0151

Roles

Judge
Official
Scholar
Teacher

Life and dates

Death

Manner: sudden
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0179

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 十一月 · Western Year: AD 1724
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0172
Source Date: Text: 康熙四十五年 · Western Year: AD 1706
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Source Date: Text: 雍正三年 · Western Year: AD 1725
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0173
Source Date: Text: 雍正二年四月 · Western Year: AD 1724
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0170

Family

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Child of Father of Yu Dian
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: head of Aofeng Academy / 主鼇峰書院
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0153
Label: Shandong judicial commissioner / 山東按察使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 雍正二年四月 · Western Year: AD 1724
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Label: magistrate of Jiangjin / 江津知縣 · Action: appointed · Place: Sichuan / 四川
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Label: principal clerk in the Ministry of Personnel / 吏部主事 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0162
Label: vice director of Shuntian Prefecture / 順天府丞 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 1725
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Label: Yan-Ning Circuit commissioner / 山東兗寧道 · Action: promoted
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0166
Status: impeached · Action: suffered · Authority Person Id: Qisule (齊蘇勒)
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0168
Status: stripped-of-office · Action: suffered · Authority Person Id: Miao Yuan (繆沅)
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0176
Status: imprisoned-then-cleared · Action: suffered
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0177, qingshigao:300:s0178, qingshigao:300:s0179

Places and affiliations

Place: Fuqing, Fujian / 福建福清
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0151

Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 康熙四十五年 · Western Year: AD 1706
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0152

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0160

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: resister · Action: refused-extra-levies · Other Person Id: Nian Gengyao (年羹堯)
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0157, qingshigao:300:s0158, qingshigao:300:s0159, qingshigao:300:s0160, qingshigao:300:s0161
Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Zhang Penghe (張鵬翮)
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0162
Relation: recommended-by · Person Id: Chen Pengnian (陳鵬年)
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0166
Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Tang Youzeng (湯右曾)
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0162

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: enriched governance with Confucian learning · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0233

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 300Volume 300 Biographies 87: Chen Qi Yuan, He Shijian, Tang Jizu, Ma Weihan, Yu Dian, Wang Yezi, Liu Erwei · 14 passages

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沈起元何師儉唐繼祖馬維翰餘甸王葉滋劉而位 Shen Qiyuan, He Shijian, Tang Jizu, Ma Weihan, Yu Dian, Wang Yezi, and Liu Erwei

餘甸，字田生，福建福清人。 Yu Dian, styled Tiansheng, came from Fuqing in Fujian.

時青海用兵，巡撫年羹堯督餉，多額外急徵，檄再三至，甸不應。 While Qinghai was at war, Governor Nian Gengyao supervised provisions and repeatedly imposed extra urgent levies. Dispatches arrived again and again, but Dian did not comply.

乃使僕持檄告諭，自朝至晡，甸不出，使者譁。 Gengyao sent a servant with a dispatch to announce the order. From morning until dusk Dian did not emerge, and the messenger raised an uproar.

甸坐堂皇，命反接，將杖之，丞簿力為請，久之乃釋其縛。 Dian sat in the hall, ordered the messenger bound and was about to flog him. The assistant magistrate and registrar pleaded forcefully, and only after a long delay were his bonds released.

越日，使者索檄，甸曰：「汝還報，我閉門待劾，檄已達京師矣。」 The next day the messenger demanded the dispatch. Dian said, "Go back and report that I have closed my doors awaiting impeachment—the dispatch has already reached the capital."

行取吏部主事，時尚書張鵬翮、侍郎湯右曾皆以幹濟名，甸遇當爭辯者，侃侃無所撓。 Selected for the Ministry of Personnel, he served under Minister Zhang Penghe and Vice Minister Tang Youzeng, both famed for capability. When matters required argument, Dian spoke forthrightly without yielding.

鵬年卒，齊蘇勒為河督，以工事劾甸，行河至濟寧，士民群聚乞還甸。 When Pengnian died, Qisule became canal governor and impeached Dian over engineering. When Qisule traveled the canal to Jining, gentry and commoners gathered in crowds begging for Dian's return.

齊蘇勒疏陳，召入見。 Qisule memorialized on this, and Dian was summoned for audience.

甸歷官盡革陋規，為按察使，愍囚不能自衣食，取鹽商歲饋三之一以資給之。 Throughout his career Dian abolished all irregular fees. As provincial judicial commissioner, pitying prisoners who could not feed or clothe themselves, he took one-third of the salt merchants' annual gifts to support them.

既去官，上命內閣學士繆沅清察山東鹽政諸弊，舉是劾甸，奪官，歸。 After leaving office, the emperor ordered Grand Secretariat Academician Miao Yuan to investigate abuses in Shandong salt administration. Citing Dian's use of merchant gifts, Yuan impeached him, stripped his office, and Dian returned home.

甸用唐人詩語為人書楹帖，其人有怨家，訐於有司，以為怨望。 Dian had written couplets for others using lines from Tang poetry. One recipient had an enemy who denounced the couplets to officials as expressions of resentment against the throne.

有司以甸所書也，並下甸於獄。 Because Dian had written the couplets, the officials imprisoned him as well.

維翰有幹局，甸尤能澤以儒效。 Weihan had a talent for practical administration; Dian especially enriched governance with Confucian learning.