Zai Quan (載銓) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zai Quan as an aristocrat, official, and royal family member. This record brings together 4 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	Zai Quan	載銓	Zai Quan
Title	Prince Ding	定郡王
Title	Prince Ding	定郡王	Ding Junwang
Title	Prince Ding Zaiquan	定郡王載銓
Personal name	Zai Quan	載銓	Zai Quan
Personal name	Zaiquan	載銓	Zaiquan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:141:s0143, qingshigao:389:s0095, qingshigao:440:s0039
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0188

Roles

Aristocrat
Official
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 咸豐三年 · Western Year: AD 1853
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:440:s0039, qingshigao:440:s0041
Source Date: Text: 咸豐元年 · Western Year: AD 1851
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:389:s0095
Source Date: Text: 道光中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1821 · End: AD 1850
Explicit · qingshigao:141:s0143
Source Date: Text: 道光二十八年 · Western Year: AD 1848
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0188

Career and standing

Title: Prince Ding / 定郡王 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:440:s0039

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: lived-under
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:375:s0188
Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:141:s0143

Works and attributed material

Kind: statement · Role: speaker
Explicit · qingshigao:141:s0143

Events and relationships

Kind: administrative · Role: adviser · Action: urged-halving-banner-officers-horse-allowances · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1821 · End: AD 1850
Explicit · qingshigao:141:s0143

Assessments and attributes

Item: Resting the Shoulders painting / 息肩圖 · Relation: associated-with
Explicit · qingshigao:440:s0039

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 141Volume 141 Treatises 116: Military 12, Horse Administration · 1 passage

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道光中，從載銓等言，裁八旗官拴馬半額，以節出之費補兵餉焉。 Under Daoguang, at Zai Quan's urging, banner officers' horse allowances were halved and the savings applied to troop pay.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 375Volume 375 Biographies 162: Bai Rong, Sun Huan, Shi Zhiyan, Na Qingan, Sheng Yin, Li Zongfang, Yao Yuanzhi, He Rulin, Ji Zhichang, Lie Chuan · 1 passage

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二十八年，命偕定郡王載銓籌辦長蘆鹽務，清查天津倉庫，疏陳：「蘆鹽積累，各商憚於承運，懸岸至四十餘處。 In 1848 he was ordered, together with Prince Ding Zaiquan, to manage Changlu salt affairs and inspect Tianjin granaries. He memorialized: "Changlu salt has accumulated; merchants fear undertaking transport; suspended salt yards number more than forty.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 389Volume 389 Biographies 176: Bai Jun, Lin Kui, Rui Chang, Quan Qing · 1 passage

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定郡王載銓管步軍統領，越次題升主事，瑞常力爭不得。 Prince Ding Zaiquan, who oversaw the metropolitan gendarmerie, proposed an out-of-turn promotion for a secretary; Rui Chang protested vigorously but failed.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 440Volume 440 Biographies 227: Ying Gui, Zong Shizailing, En Cheng, Zong Shifukun, Chong Li, Yu De · 1 passage

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以題定郡王載銓息肩圖稱門生違例，鐫三級。 Because he had inscribed Prince Ding Zaiquan's painting Resting the Shoulders and styled himself the prince's disciple in violation of protocol, he was demoted three ranks.