Fan Chengmo (范承謨)

Overview

Fan Chengmo was a Qing governor and loyal martyr.

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Jingong	覲公	Jìngōng

Martyrdom for loyalty · Cause No recourse but to die while pressed in the same city as the rebel
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 186
AD 1676
Forced suicide by hanging
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 93

AD 1673 to AD 1681 方諸籓盛強
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 252, passages 184, 186
AD 1652 順治九年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 53

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

fifty-three retainers, relatives, clerks, and runners died with him
Kinship Role household-and-retainers · Count 53
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 94

Value Han Bannerman · Banner Bordered Yellow Banner
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 52

governor / governor-general 督撫
Held
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 252, passages 184, 186
Junior Tutor to the Heir Apparent
Posthumous true
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 99
Minister of War
Posthumous true
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 99
academician of the Secretariat
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 54
compiler, Hongwen Academy
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 53
governor of Zhejiang
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 55

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governor-general of Fujian
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 71
Posthumous Name Zhongzhen · 忠貞 · Gloss Loyal and Steadfast
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 99
Imperial Inscription Loyal and Steadfast, Bright as the Sun · 忠貞炳日
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 102
Died for loyalty
Martyrdom
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 186

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 252, passages 184, 186
At same city as Jingzhong 同城 · Relation Resided in
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 186

composed poetry and prose in charcoal on his prison walls
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passages 86-87
Collected Writings from the Prison Walls
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 103
proposed conversion and phased collection of grain taxes with disaster remissions
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passages 60-62
historian's judgment on martyrdom under rebel pressure
Commentary · Subject
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passages 186, 188-189
Speech The rebels will soon face execution—I will break their spirits first!
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 84

Organized flood and famine relief in four Zhejiang prefectures
Biographical event
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 59
Pressed in same city as
Political · Loyalist official · With Geng Jingzhong (耿精忠) · Outcome Died as martyr; no other recourse
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 186
Surveyed flood damaged land and requested major tax exemptions
Biographical event
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passages 57-58
Warned against troop reductions after detecting Geng Jingzhong's disloyalty
Biographical event
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 76
Relation Opposed to · Person Geng Jingzhong (耿精忠)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 186

Assessment fierce loyalty that inspired troops and struck fear into the rebels; death not in vain · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passages 188-189