Lao Naixuan (勞乃宣)

Overview

Lao Naixuan was a Board Minister and Scholar.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Yuchu	玉初	Yuchu

Life and dates

Death

Age Value: 79 · Reckoning: Sui
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 212

Attested activity

AD 1917 丁巳
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 211
AD 1899 光緒二十五年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 196
AD 1871 同治十年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 185
AD 1917 宣統九年1917年五月十三日
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 473, passages 32, 56
AD 1909 宣統元年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 142, passage 148
AD 1909 宣統元年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 204

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AD 1910 明年資政院開
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 142, passages 179-180
AD 1900 義和拳
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 465, passage 211

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Minister of Justice 法部尚書
AD 1917 丁巳復辟 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 211
magistrate in Zhili 知縣分直隸
AD 1871 同治十年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 185
board minister 尚書
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 473, passage 56
Advisory Council member 議員
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 142, passage 180
Jiangsu provincial education commissioner 江蘇提學使
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 142, passage 148
Magistrate of Wuqiao 吳橋知縣
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 465, passage 211

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 142, passage 148; Draft History of Qing 465, passage 211; Draft History of Qing 472, passage 185
At Tongxiang, Zhejiang 浙江桐鄉
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 184
AD 1917 丁巳
At Qufu 曲阜 · Relation Resided at
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 211
At Jiangsu 江蘇 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 142, passage 148
At Laishui 淶水 · Relation Resided at
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 209
At Qingdao 青島 · Relation Sojourned at
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 210

Learning and skills

Earned
AD 1871 同治十年 · Credential jinshi 進士
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 185

Works and attributed material

An Inquiry into the Origins of the Boxer Sect 義和拳教門源流考
AD 1899 光緒二十五年 · Relation Author
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 196
Combined-Sound Simplified Character Manual 合聲簡字譜
Relation Author
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 202
Correct Interpretation of the Republic 共和正解
Relation Author
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 210
Essentials of Treaty Compilation 約章纂要
Relation Author
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 214
Investigations into Ancient Calculation 古籌算考釋
Relation Author
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 214
Records of Tranquil Rest 遺安錄
Relation Author
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 214

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Letter · Author
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 142, passages 148-177

Events and relationships

Arrested and executed Jie Xiaoting
AD 1899 光緒二十五年 · Legal · Prosecutor · With Jie Xiaoting (節小廷)
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 472, passages 197-198
Captured and executed Chen Er and Black Gang members
Legal · Prosecutor · With Chen Er (陳二)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 195
Declined Minister of Justice at 1917 restoration
AD 1917 丁巳復辟 · Political · Decliner
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 211
Forbade Boxer practice
Political · Suppressor
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 465, passage 211
Held firm on adultery and parental commands articles
Political · Debater
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 142, passage 180
Relation Colleague of · Person Zhou Fu (周馥)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 201

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Relation Ally of · Person Chen Baochen (陳寶琛)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 142, passage 180
Relation Adapted work of · Person Wang Zhao (王照)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 202

Assessments and attributes

Assessment argued new code wrongly abandoned ritual-ethical articles · Mode self-report Speaker Lao Naixuan (勞乃宣)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 142, passages 148, 176
Assessment true / comprehensive scholar (通儒) · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passages 213, 243

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 473, passage 56

References in the histories

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History

19 passages

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 142Volume 142 Treatises 117: Penal Law 1 · 2 passages

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時江蘇提學使勞乃宣上書憲政編查館論之曰：「法律大臣會同法部奏進修改刑律，義關倫常諸條，未依舊律修入。 At the time Jiangsu provincial education commissioner Lao Naixuan wrote to the Constitutional Research Bureau, arguing: "The legal ministers, together with the Ministry of Justice, submitted the revised penal code, yet the articles concerning human relations and moral norms were not incorporated from the old code.

時勞乃宣充議員，與同院內閣學士陳寶琛等，於無夫奸及違犯教令二條尤力持不少怠，而分則遂未議決。 At the time Lao Naixuan served as a councilor; together with fellow councilor Grand Secretary Chen Baochen and others, he especially held firm without yielding on the two articles concerning adultery without a husband and violation of parental commands, but the Specific Provisions were never decided.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 465Volume 465 Biographies 252: Xu Tong With: Yu Shi, Yu Shi Son: Cheng Yu, Gang Yi, Zhao Shuqiao, Qi Xiu, Ying Nian, Yu Lu With: Ting Yong, Yu Xian With: Li Tingxiao · 1 passage

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吳橋知縣勞乃宣禁傳習，為書上裕祿，格不行。 Wuqiao Magistrate Lao Naixuan forbade Boxer practice and wrote to Yu Lu, but the letter was blocked.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 472Volume 472 Biographies 259: Lu Runxiang, Shi Xu, Yi Ketan, Liang Dingfen, Xu Fang, Lao Naixuan, Shen Cengzhi · 13 passages

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勞乃宣，字玉初，浙江桐鄉人。 Lao Naixuan, whose courtesy name was Yuchu, came from Tongxiang in Zhejiang.

乃宣任蠡縣，值謁陵事竣，贏支應錢千餘緡，儲庫備公用。 When Naixuan served in Li county, after the tomb-visitation duties ended the surplus disbursement came to more than a thousand strings of cash, which he stored in the treasury for public use.

嘗至南皮劫殺，乃宣會防營掩捕，擒陳二及其黨數人磔於市，黑團遂絕。 They once came to Nanpi to rob and kill; Naixuan joined the defense camp in a surprise arrest, captured Chen Er and several of his followers, and had them dismembered in the market—the Black Gang was then extinguished.

二十五年，義和拳起山東，蔓延於直、東各境，乃宣為義和拳教門源流考，張示曉諭，且申請奏頒禁止，不能行。 In the twenty-fifth year the Boxers arose in Shandong and spread through Zhili and the eastern provinces; Naixuan wrote An Inquiry into the Origins of the Boxer Sect, posted it for public notice, and memorialized asking that an imperial prohibition be issued—it could not be carried out.

乃宣飭役捕治，縱士民環觀，既受笞，號呼不能作神狀，梟示之，匪乃不敢入境。 Naixuan ordered runners to arrest and punish him, letting scholars and common people surround and watch; after the bastinado he cried out and could no longer play at spirit possession; he was decapitated and displayed, and the bandits then dared not enter the district.

明年，拳黨入京，乃宣知大亂將作，適調吏部稽勳司主事，遂請急南歸，浙撫任道鎔延主浙江大學堂。 The next year the Boxer faction entered the capital; Naixuan knew great disorder was imminent; just then he was transferred to principal clerk in the Ministry of Personnel's Records of Honors Office, and he requested urgent leave to return south; Zhejiang Governor Ren Daorong engaged him to head the Zhejiang Grand Academy.

周馥從乃宣議，設簡字學堂於金陵。 Zhou Fu adopted Naixuan's proposal and established a Simplified Character Academy at Jinling.

初，寧河王照造官話字母，乃宣增其母韻聲號為合聲簡字譜，俾江、浙語音相近處皆可通。 Earlier Wang Zhao of Ninghe had devised Mandarin phonetic letters; Naixuan expanded them into a Combined-Sound Simplified Character Manual with fuller initials, finals, and tone marks, so that regions in Jiangsu and Zhejiang with similar speech could all use it.

法律館奏進新刑律，乃宣摘其妨於父子之倫、長幼之序、男女之別者數條，提議修正之。 When the Law Codification Office submitted the new penal code, Naixuan singled out articles that undermined the relations between father and son, elder and younger, and men and women, and proposed revisions.

時士大夫多流寓青島，德人尉禮賢立尊孔文社，延乃宣主社事，著共和正解。 Many scholar-officials were then living in exile in Qingdao; the German Richard Wilhelm founded a Confucian Literary Society, and Naixuan was invited to head it and wrote Correct Interpretation of the Republic.

丁巳復辟，授法部尚書，乃宣時居曲阜，以衰老辭。 At the 1917 restoration he was appointed Minister of Justice, but Naixuan was then in Qufu and declined on grounds of age and infirmity.