Zhao Shenzhen (趙慎畛)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhao Shenzhen as an administrator, official, and scholar. This record brings together 13 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 Shenzhen	趙慎畛	Zhào Shènzhěn
Courtesy	Dilou	笛樓	Dílóu
Given	Shenque	慎畛	Shenque
Given	Shenzhen	慎畛	Shènzhěn
Posthumous	Wenge	文恪	Wénkè
Surname	Zhao	趙	Zhào
Surname	Zhao	趙	Zhao
Personal name	Zhao Shenque	趙慎畛	Zhao Shenque

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0003
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:384:s0001

Roles

Administrator
Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光五年 · Western Year: AD 1825
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:379:s0054, qingshigao:379:s0050

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 二十三年 · Western Year: AD 1818
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Source Date: Text: 二十年 · Western Year: AD 1815
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Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1825
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Source Date: Text: 先後疆吏趙慎畛、陶澍、林則徐皆薦其可大用 · Western Year: AD 1830
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Source Date: Text: 十七年 · Western Year: AD 1812
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Source Date: Text: 嘉慶元年 · Western Year: AD 1796
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Source Date: Text: 道光二年 · Western Year: AD 1822
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Career and standing

Label: intendant of Huizhou, Chaozhou, and Jiazhou / 惠潮嘉道 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十七年 · Western Year: AD 1812
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Label: compiler / 編修 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶元年 · Western Year: AD 1796
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Label: Hanlin bachelor / 庶吉士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶元年 · Western Year: AD 1796
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Label: governor of Guangxi / 廣西巡撫 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十三年 · Western Year: AD 1818
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:379:s0024, qingshigao:379:s0005
Label: provincial judge of Guangxi / 廣西按察使 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 逾年 · Western Year: AD 1813
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:379:s0014, qingshigao:379:s0011
Label: governor-general of Fujian and Zhejiang / 閩浙總督 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二年 · Western Year: AD 1822
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Label: censor / 御史 · Action: promoted
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Label: supervising secretary / 給事中 · Action: promoted
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Label: provincial treasurer of Guangdong / 廣東布政使 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十年 · Western Year: AD 1815
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:379:s0019, qingshigao:379:s0005
Label: governor-general of Yunnan and Guizhou / 雲貴總督 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1825
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:379:s0050, qingshigao:379:s0035
Label: Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent / 太子少保 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光五年 · Western Year: AD 1825
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:379:s0056, qingshigao:379:s0050

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
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Place: Wuling, Hunan / 湖南武陵
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Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶元年 · Western Year: AD 1796
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Works and attributed material

Work: memorials, campaign record, chronological memoir, reading diary, notes on cherishing time, and collected poetry and prose / 奏議、從征錄、載年錄、讀書日記、惜日筆記等書及詩文集 · Relation: author
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Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quote: true · Other Person Id: Qian Feng (錢灃)
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Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quote: true
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0031, qingshigao:379:s0032

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: captured-and-executed · Other Person Id: Lan Yaoqing (藍耀青)
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0026
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: captured-and-executed · Other Person Id: Liao Wugui (廖五桂)
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Kind: legal · Role: prosecutor · Action: impeached · Other Person Id: Shen Tianhua (沈添華)
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Kind: legal · Role: prosecutor · Action: impeached · Other Person Id: Xu Song (徐松)
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0009
Relation: recommender-of · Person Id: Yao Ying (姚瑩)
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0147
Relation: recommended-by · Person Id: Jiang Youxian (蔣攸銛)
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0010

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: honest and sincere · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Daoguang Emperor (道光帝)
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0035
Assessment: learning had deep roots; strict yet forgiving in governance · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0199

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 · 12 passages

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趙慎畛盧坤曾勝陶澍 Zhao Shenzhen, Lu Kun, Zeng Sheng, and Tao Shu

趙慎畛，字笛樓，湖南武陵人。 Zhao Shenzhen, whose courtesy name was Dilou, came from Wuling in Hunan.

湖南學政徐松矜愎失士心，欲附慎畛自固，常列其弟子優等，慎畛列款糾劾罷之。 The Hunan educational commissioner Xu Song was arrogant and had lost the regard of the scholarly community; hoping to secure himself by currying favor with Shenzhen, he habitually ranked Shenzhen's pupils in the top grade. Shenzhen set out the facts in a memorial of impeachment and had him removed from office.

天地會匪結黨構亂，脅有貲者入其中，慎畛惟嚴罪匪首，被脅者不坐。 Heaven and Earth Society bandits formed factions and plotted rebellion, forcing wealthy men to join them; Shenzhen punished only the ringleaders severely, and those who had been coerced were not charged.

地連黔、楚，群盜出沒，宜山會匪廖五桂、藍耀青分踞新、舊兩墟，糾眾分黨，偽立名目，勒索殷戶，爭利相擾，親往捕誅之。 The province bordered Guizhou and Huguang, and bandits roamed freely. At Yishan, Heaven and Earth Society bandits Liao Wugui and Lan Yaoqing held the new and old market towns, mustering followers in rival factions under false titles, extorting wealthy households and fighting over spoils—Shenzhen went in person and captured and executed them.

慎畛曰：「吾家衣食粗足，身為大臣，取盈將安用之？ Shenzhen said, "My family's food and clothing are already adequate; as a senior minister, what would I do with surplus profits?

浙江提督沈添華玩縱，劾罷之。 The Zhejiang provincial commander Shen Tianhua was negligent and indulgent; Shenzhen impeached him and had him removed.

台灣自來多亂，動煩大兵，慎畛尤以為慮，盡選賢能以治。 Taiwan had long been turbulent and often required large military expeditions; Shenzhen was especially concerned about this and selected the ablest officials he could find to govern it.

鳳山莠民楊良斌煽眾起事，檄巡道孔昭虔、知府孔傳穟剿治，未一月而定，不煩一兵渡海。 A troublemaker of Fengshan named Yang Liangbin incited a popular uprising; Shenzhen dispatched orders to the circuit intendant Kong Zhaoqian and the prefect Kong Chuansui to suppress it, and within a month the affair was settled without a single soldier crossing the strait.

遺疏上，優詔賜卹，贈太子少保，諡文恪，祀名宦、鄉賢祠。 When his death memorial reached the throne, an edict graciously granted funeral honors, posthumously appointed him Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent, gave him the posthumous title Wenge, and ordered his enshrinement in the shrines of eminent officials and local worthies.

慎畛服膺儒先，凡有益身心可致用者，皆身體力行。 Shenzhen devoted himself to the Confucian sages; whatever could benefit mind and body and be put to practical use, he practiced in his own person.

論曰：趙慎畛學有本源，察吏治民，嚴而能恕，所至政無不舉。 The historians comment: Zhao Shenzhen's learning had deep roots; in inspecting officials and governing the people he was strict yet forgiving, and wherever he served every undertaking was brought to completion.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 384Volume 384 Biographies 171: Lin Peihou, Li Xiangkun, Li Zongchuan, Wang Fengsheng, Huang Mian, Yu De Yuan, Yao Ying · 1 passage

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先後疆吏趙慎畛、陶澍、林則徐皆薦其可大用。 Frontier governors Zhao Shenque, Tao Shu, and Lin Zexu in turn recommended him for high office.