Zong Jichen (宗稷辰)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zong Jichen as an official, scholar, and statesman. 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	Zong Jichen	宗稷辰	Zong Jichen
Courtesy name	Difu	滌甫	Difu
Given name	Jichen	稷辰	Jichen
Surname	Zong	宗	Zong
Personal name	Zong Jichen	宗稷辰	Zong Jichen

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:423:s0001

Roles

Official
Scholar
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治六年 · Western Year: AD 1867
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:423:s0037

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1855
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:423:s0009
Source Date: Text: 同治六年 · Western Year: AD 1867
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:423:s0037
Source Date: Text: 咸豐元年 · Western Year: AD 1851
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:423:s0004
Source Date: Text: 道光元年 · Western Year: AD 1821
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:423:s0002

Family

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Child of Zong Peizheng (宗霈正)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Mother of Zong Jichen (宗稷辰母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother

Career and standing

Label: censor / 御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐元年 · Western Year: AD 1851
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0004
Label: Grand Secretariat secretary / 內閣中書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光元年 · Western Year: AD 1821
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0002
Label: Grand Council clerk / 軍機章京 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0002
Label: Shandong grain-transport circuit intendant / 山東運河道 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0035
Label: supervising secretary / 給事中 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0030
Label: brevet salt-transport commissioner / 鹽運使銜 · Action: granted
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0036
Status: retirement · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治六年 · Western Year: AD 1867
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0037
Label: disciplinary referral / 下部議處 · Action: suffered
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0013

Places and affiliations

Place: Kuaiji, Zhejiang / 浙江會稽
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0001

Learning and skills

Credential: Provincial Graduate (juren) / 舉人 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光元年 · Western Year: AD 1821
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0002

Works and attributed material

Work: Correct Learning collection / 正學集 · Relation: sponsor
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0043
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Zong Jichen (宗稷辰)
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0005, qingshigao:423:s0014, qingshigao:423:s0015, qingshigao:423:s0016, qingshigao:423:s0017, qingshigao:423:s0018, qingshigao:423:s0019, qingshigao:423:s0020, qingshigao:423:s0021, qingshigao:423:s0022, qingshigao:423:s0023, qingshigao:423:s0024, qingshigao:423:s0025, qingshigao:423:s0026, qingshigao:423:s0027

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: built-defense-walls · Place: Jining Niutou River / 濟寧牛頭河
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0035
Kind: political · Role: remonstrant · Action: memorialized-tomb-visit-postponement · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1855
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0009
Relation: student-of · Person Id: Liu Zongzhou (劉宗周)
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:423:s0040
Relation: student-of · Person Id: Wang Shouren (王守仁)
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:423:s0040

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: filial · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0039
Assessment: recognized talent (知人) · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0029

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 423Volume 423 Biographies 210: Zong Jichen, Yin Gengyun, Wang Zheng, Mu Jixianga, You Baichuan, Shen Huai · 8 passages

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宗稷辰，字滌甫，浙江會稽人。 Zong Jichen, style name Difu, came from Kuaiji in Zhejiang.

五年，聞上將謁陵，未有旨戒行，稷辰疏言：「畿南州縣被水，連歲用兵，民氣甫行休息，籥請展緩一年。」 In the fifth year (1855), when word spread that the emperor would soon visit the tombs though no formal notice had been issued, Jichen memorialized: "The counties south of the capital had been flooded, years of war had only just eased, and the people needed rest—I beg a one-year postponement."

今茲並未降旨何日謁陵，宗稷辰揣度陳奏，徒博敢諫之名而無其實。 This time no edict had even fixed a date for the visit; Zong Jichen had merely guessed and spoken up, winning a reputation for bold remonstrance without any real grounds.

宗棠自此膺簡拔，論者謂其知人。 Zuo Zongtang was thus brought to the court's attention, and contemporaries praised Jichen for recognizing talent.

稷辰上疏請復用制錢，號曰「祖錢」，而大錢改純用鐵鑄，兼行並用。 Jichen memorialized to restore standard copper coinage under the name "ancestral cash," while large coins would be cast in iron only, with both kinds circulating side by side.

稷辰父霈正，官湖南零陵知縣，廉無餘貲。 Jichen's father Peizheng had been magistrate of Lingling in Hunan and died leaving nothing beyond an honest name.

稷辰事母孝。 Jichen was devoted to his mother.

宗稷辰歸重得人，尹耕雲論諸將帥罪，王拯請調和疆吏，一意辦賊，為能見其大。 Zong Jichen stressed finding the right men; Yin Gengyun judged generals' failures; Wang Zheng urged frontier officials to cooperate and focus on defeating rebels—they saw the larger picture.