Qing · Official and Scholar

Gu Chun 顧蓴

First attested AD 1802; died AD 1833

Passages: 11
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Gu Chun was an official and Scholar.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Nanya	南雅	Nanya

Life and dates

Death

AD 1833 道光十三年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passage 59

Attested activity

AD 1802 嘉慶七年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passage 29
AD 1812 嘉慶十七年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passage 30
AD 1831 道光十一年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passage 53
AD 1833 道光十三年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passage 59

Career and standing

Compiler 編修
AD 1802 嘉慶七年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passage 29
Hanlin bachelor 庶吉士
AD 1802 嘉慶七年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passage 29
Daily lecture official 日講官
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passage 35
Educational commissioner of Yunnan 雲南學政
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passage 31
Compiler 編修
Demoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passage 43
Expositor of the Hanlin Academy 侍講學士
AD 1820 嘉慶二十五年 · Promoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passage 36

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Reader-in-waiting 侍讀
AD 1812 嘉慶十七年 · Promoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passage 30
Vice commissioner of the Office of Transmission 通政司副使
AD 1831 道光十一年 · Promoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passage 53
Right vice-director of the Secretariat 右中允
Promoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passage 47
Expositor of the Hanlin Academy 侍講學士
Restored
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passage 48

Places and affiliations

At Wu County, Jiangsu 江蘇吳縣
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passage 28
At Yunnan 雲南 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passages 31, 33

Learning and skills

Earned
AD 1802 嘉慶七年 · Credential Presented Scholar 進士
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passage 29

Works and attributed material

Biography of Heshen 和珅傳
Relation Author
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passage 44
Memorial · Author
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passages 49-51, 54-56

Events and relationships

Drafted Heshen biography later altered
AD 1796 to AD 1820 嘉慶中 · Scholarly · Author
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passages 44-46
Warned about Henan corruption before Huaxian rebellion
AD 1812 嘉慶十七年 · Political · Memorialist
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passages 31-32

Assessments and attributes

Assessment proposals especially outstanding · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passage 142
Assessment stern and upright; devoted to moral principle · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passage 58

References in the histories

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History

11 passages

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 377Volume 377 Biographies 164: Bao Guixing, Gu Chun, Wu Xiaoming, Chen Hong, E Mushune, Xu Faji · 11 passages

鮑桂星顧吳孝銘陳鴻鄂木順額徐法績 Bao Guixing, Gu Chun, Wu Xiaoming, Chen Hong, E Mushune, and Xu Faji

顧蓴，字南雅，江蘇吳縣人。 Gu Chun, whose courtesy name was Nanya, came from Wu County in Jiangsu.

蓴謂貴介不宜與聞樞要，請收回成命。 Chun argued that men of privileged birth should not be admitted to confidential state business and asked that the concession be revoked.

左都御史松筠出為熱河都統，蓴上疏，謂松筠正人，宜留置左右，失上意，降編修，九歲不調。 When Left Censor-in-Chief Songyun was posted out as commander of Rehe, Chun memorialized that Songyun was a man of integrity who should be kept close to the throne. The memorial displeased the emperor; Chun was demoted to compiler and went nine years without a new appointment.

先是嘉慶中蓴在史館，撰和珅傳，及進禦，經他人竄改，和珅曾數因事被高宗詰責，並未載入傳。 Earlier, during the Jiaqing reign, Chun had been in the Historiography Office and drafted Heshen's biography. By the time it reached the throne others had altered it, omitting the many occasions on which Emperor Gaozong had censured Heshen for misconduct.

大臣以蓴原稿進，仁宗深是之，而奪竄改者官。 Senior ministers submitted Chun's original draft. Emperor Renzong strongly endorsed it and dismissed the officials who had altered the text.

宣宗一日閱實錄至此事，嘉蓴直筆，因言前保留松筠，必非阿私，特擢蓴右中允。 One day Emperor Daoguang, reading the Veritable Records, came upon the episode and praised Chun's honest historiography. Saying that Chun's earlier defense of Songyun could not have been sycophancy, he specially promoted Chun to right vice-director of the Secretariat.

時回疆張格爾亂甫定，蓴疏：「請於喀什噶爾沿邊增重兵，以控制安集延，杜回人窺伺； At that time the Zhang Ge'er rebellion in the Western Regions had only just been suppressed. Chun memorialized: "Along the Kashgar frontier additional troops should be stationed to control Andijan and forestall Muslim probing;

湖南北、江南、江西、浙江大水，蓴疏言：「饑民與鹽梟糾合易生事，鹽梟不盡去，終為巨患。 When severe floods hit Hunan, Hubei, the lower Yangzi, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang, Chun memorialized: "Hungry refugees who ally with salt smugglers can quickly turn violent. Unless smuggling rings are broken up, they will become a lasting scourge.

蓴性嚴正，尚氣節，晚益負時望，從遊者眾，類能砥勵自立，滇士尤歸之，其秀異者至京師多就問業焉。 Chun was stern and upright, devoted to moral principle. In later life his reputation only grew, and a large circle of disciples learned self-discipline under him. Yunnan scholars revered him above all; their most talented men, once in Beijing, often sought him out for guidance.

論曰：鮑桂星、顧蓴以鯁直獲譴，卒見諒於明主，蓴之建白，尤卓卓矣。 The commentators say: Bao Guixing and Gu Chun were punished for blunt integrity, yet in the end won understanding from an enlightened sovereign. Chun's proposals were especially outstanding.