Zhao Qingzai (趙青仔)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhao Qingzai as a bandit and rebel. This record brings together 3 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	Zhao Qingzai	趙青仔	Zhào Qīngzǎi
Personal	Zhao Qingzai	趙青仔	Zhao Qingzai

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0109
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:382:s0016

Roles

Bandit
Rebel

Life and dates

Death

Manner: dismembered in marketplace · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Western Year: AD 1832
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:379:s0109, 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:379:s0109, qingshigao:379:s0102

Origins and identity

Ethnicity: Yao / 瑤
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0109

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: rebel-lieutenant · Action: fled-with-survivors
Explicit · qingshigao:382:s0016
Relation: avenger-of · Person Id: Zhao Jinlong (趙金龍)
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0109
Relation: follower-of · Person Id: Zhao Jinlong (趙金龍)
Explicit · qingshigao:382:s0016

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 379Volume 379 Biographies 166: Zhao Shenzhen, Lu Kun, Ceng Sheng, Tao Shu · 2 passages

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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.