Zhao Jinlong (趙金龍)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhao Jinlong as a bandit, rebel, and tribal leader. This record brings together 8 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	Zhao Jinlong	趙金龍	Zhào Jīnlóng
Alternate	Jinlong	金龍
Personal name	Zhao Jinlong	趙金龍	Zhào Jīnlóng
Personal	Zhao Jinlong	趙金龍	Zhao Jinlong

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:366:s0185, qingshigao:373:s0153, qingshigao:379:s0102
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:382:s0016

Roles

Bandit
Rebel
Tribal Leader

Life and dates

Death

Cause: killed in suppression / 就殲 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Western Year: AD 1832
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0153
Manner: executed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十二年 · Regnal Year: 12 · Western Year: AD 1832
Explicit · qingshigao:382:s0016
Manner: killed in disorderly retreat · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Western Year: AD 1832
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:379:s0106, qingshigao:379:s0102

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 道光十二年 · Regnal Year: 12 · Western Year: AD 1832
Explicit · qingshigao:382:s0016
Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Western Year: AD 1832
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:373:s0153, qingshigao:379:s0065, qingshigao:379:s0102
Source Date: Text: 道光十二年 · Western Year: AD 1832
Explicit · qingshigao:366:s0185

Origins and identity

Ethnicity: Yao / 瑤
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0102

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: rebel-leader · Action: led-Hunan-Yao-rebellion
Explicit · qingshigao:382:s0016
Kind: military · Role: rebel · Action: rebelled · Place: Hunan / 湖南 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十二年春 · Western Year: AD 1832
Explicit · qingshigao:366:s0185
Kind: rebellion · Role: leader · Action: rose · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Western Year: AD 1832
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:379:s0102, qingshigao:379:s0065

Assessments and attributes

Item: sword, seals, wooden idols / 劍印木偶 · Relation: possessed
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0106

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0153
Statement: His children (子女) were captured after the stronghold fell.
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0105

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 366Volume 366 Biographies 153: Sun Yuting, Jiang Youxian, Li Hongbin · 1 passage

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十二年春，湖南瑤趙金龍倡亂，廣東連州瑤聞風蠢動，遣兵防剿。 In the spring of the twelfth year the Yao leader Zhao Jinlong rebelled in Hunan. Hearing the news, the Yao of Lianzhou in Guangdong stirred, and troops were sent to guard and suppress them.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 373Volume 373 Biographies 160: Zong Shiyishan, Long Wen, Zong Shiyijing, Wen Wei, Te Yi Shun, Yu Buyun · 1 passage

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十二年，率貴州兵剿江華瑤趙金龍，偕提督羅思舉破賊巢，金龍就殲，加太子少保。 In the twelfth year he led Guizhou troops against the Yao rebel Zhao Jinlong of Jianghua; with Luo Siju he destroyed the rebel base and killed Jinlong, and was made Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 379Volume 379 Biographies 166: Zhao Shenzhen, Lu Kun, Ceng Sheng, Tao Shu · 5 passages

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十二年，湖南江華瑤趙金龍作亂，粵瑤應之，湖南提督海凌阿及副將、游擊等皆戰歿，坤親往督師，密陳湖北提督羅思舉能辦賊。 In the twelfth year the Yao leader Zhao Jinlong of Jianghua in Hunan rose in rebellion, and Yao in Guangdong rose in response; the Hunan provincial commander Hailing'a and his vice commanders and brigade officers were all killed in battle. Kun went in person to take command and secretly memorialized that the Hubei provincial commander Luo Siju was the man to defeat the rebels.

羅思舉督諸將晝夜環攻，斃賊數千，破其巢，擒金龍子女及頭目數百人。 Luo Siju directed the generals in round-the-clock encirclement attacks, killing several thousand rebels, destroying their stronghold, and capturing Jinlong's children and several hundred subordinate leaders.

金龍乘間逸，為亂軍所殲，獲其屍及劍印木偶諸物。 Jinlong slipped away in the confusion and was killed by his own disorderly troops; his corpse was recovered along with his sword, seals, wooden idols, and other objects.

粵瑤趙青仔糾眾數千入楚界，聲言為金龍復仇，連敗之於濠江、銀江，擒青仔磔於市。 The Guangdong Yao leader Zhao Qingzai mustered several thousand men and crossed into Hunan, claiming to avenge Jinlong; he was repeatedly defeated at Haojiang and Yinjiang, captured, and dismembered in the marketplace.

瑤匪趙金龍之亂，率師會剿，擢湖南永州鎮總兵，殲金龍，及擒粵瑤趙青仔，戰皆力。 During the Yao rebellion of Zhao Jinlong he led troops in the joint campaign, was promoted to commander of the Yongzhou garrison in Hunan, destroyed Jinlong, and captured the Guangdong Yao leader Zhao Qingzai—fighting with great vigor in every engagement.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 382Volume 382 Biographies 169: Hu Song E, Bu Yan Tai, Sa Ying A · 1 passage

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十二年，命偕尚書禧恩督師剿湖南瑤匪趙金龍，至則金龍已就戮，其黨趙青仔率餘匪竄廣東、湖北境，督兵剿平之。 In the twelfth year he was ordered with Minister Xi'en to command the suppression of the Hunan Yao rebel Zhao Jinlong; by the time they arrived Jinlong was already dead, but his lieutenant Zhao Qingzai had fled with the survivors into the Guangdong–Hubei borderlands, and Hu Song'e led troops to crush them.