Zhou Xiying (周系英)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhou Xiying as an official, scholar, and teacher. This record brings together 8 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	Zhou Xiying	周系英	Zhou Xiying
Courtesy	Mengcai	孟才	Mengcai
Given	Xiying	系英	Xiying
Surname	Zhou	周	Zhou

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:354:s0025

Roles

Official
Scholar
Teacher

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光四年 · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 1824 · Place: in office / 於任
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十年 · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 1805
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Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十四年 · Regnal Year: 14 · Western Year: AD 1809
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Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十九年 · Regnal Year: 19 · Western Year: AD 1814
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Source Date: Text: 道光二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1822
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Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十四年 · Regnal Year: 24 · Western Year: AD 1819
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Source Date: Text: 道光四年 · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 1824
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Source Date: Text: 乾隆五十八年 · Regnal Year: 58 · Western Year: AD 1793
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Source Date: Text: 道光初 · Western Year: AD 1821
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Family

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Child of Mother of Zhou Xiying
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
Parent of Zhou Ruzhen (汝楨)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: education commissioner of Sichuan / 四川學政 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十年 · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 1805
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Label: director of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices / 太常寺卿 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十四年 · Regnal Year: 14 · Western Year: AD 1809
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Label: Southern Study duty / 南書房 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十四年 · Regnal Year: 14 · Western Year: AD 1809
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Label: vice minister of war on the right / 兵部右侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十九年 · Regnal Year: 19 · Western Year: AD 1814
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Label: vice minister of works / 工部侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1822
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Label: vice minister of personnel / 吏部侍郎 · Action: appointed
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Label: fourth-rank capital official / 四品京堂 · Action: recalled · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光初 · Western Year: AD 1821
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Status: mourning-leave · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十九年 · Regnal Year: 19 · Western Year: AD 1814
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Status: dismissal · Action: recommended · Authority: ministry
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Status: dismissal · Action: suffered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十四年 · Regnal Year: 24 · Western Year: AD 1819
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Places and affiliations

Place: Xiangtan, Hunan / 湖南湘潭
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Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆五十八年 · Regnal Year: 58 · Western Year: AD 1793
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Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Jiaqing Emperor (嘉慶帝) · Topic: add Zizhi Tongjian to curriculum
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Events and relationships

Kind: disaster-relief · Role: organizer · Place: Jiangyin / 江陰 · Action: flood-relief
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Kind: political · Role: accuser · Action: reported-partiality · Other Person Id: Wu Bangqing (吳邦慶) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十四年 · Regnal Year: 24 · Western Year: AD 1819
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Kind: educational · Role: tutor · Action: tutored · Other Person Id: Third Prince (三阿哥)
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Relation: teacher-of · Person Id: Third Prince (三阿哥)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: outstanding proposals as attendant minister on inspection tours · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 354Volume 354 Biographies 141: Wan Chengfeng, Zhou Xiying, Qian Yue, Qin Ying, Li Zonghan, Han Dingjin, Zhu Fangzeng · 8 passages

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萬承風周系英錢樾秦瀛李宗瀚韓鼎晉朱方增 Wan Chengfeng, Zhou Xiying, Qian Yue, Qin Ying, Li Zonghan, Han Dingjin, and Zhu Fangzeng

周系英，字孟才，湖南湘潭人。 Zhou Xiying, whose style was Mengcai, came from Xiangtan in Hunan.

系英請加授資治通鑑，以知古今治亂興衰之故，悉民間疾苦，上韙之。 Xiying asked to add the Comprehensive Mirror so the prince would understand how dynasties rise and fall and know the people's hardships; the emperor approved.

系英詢齎奏人，得事始末，於召對時面陳，乃調邦慶福建，詔以獄事畀總督察治。 Xiying questioned the memorial bearer and learned the full story; at an imperial audience he laid it out in person, and Bangqing was transferred to Fujian while the case was assigned to the governor-general for investigation.

系英素以樸直被眷遇，邦慶初與善，約地方事有見聞必告，至是手書言其曲直； Xiying had long been favored for his plain integrity; Bangqing had been friendly with him and had agreed to keep him informed of local affairs, and now wrote in his own hand about the rights and wrongs of the case;

上怒系英庇鄉人，部議革職，猶命以編修用。 The emperor was angry that Xiying had shielded his fellow townspeople; the ministry recommended dismissal, yet he was still allowed to serve as a compiler.

會瀕江大水，學政駐江陰，系英目擊災狀，貽書督撫，留官吏素得民者治賑務，假庫帑三萬兩購米平糶，民感之。 When catastrophic floods struck the river districts he was stationed at Jiangyin; witnessing the disaster, he wrote the governor-general and governor to retain trusted officials for relief work, borrowed thirty thousand taels from the treasury to buy grain and sell it at fair price, and won the people's gratitude.

論曰：萬承風、周系英、錢樾以侍從之臣，軺車所至，建白卓然。 The commentator writes: As attendant ministers, Wan Chengfeng, Zhou Xiying, and Qian Yue made outstanding proposals wherever their inspection tours took them.