Lin Qing (林清) | 24 Histories

Overview

Lin Qing was a rebel.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Alternate name	Liu Lin	劉林

Life and dates

Death

AD 1813 十八年
Execution
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 367, passage 160
AD 1813 嘉慶中
Execution
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 388, passage 6
AD 1813 嘉慶十八年
executed 誅
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 340, passage 132

Attested activity

AD 1813 十八年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 367, passages 159-160
AD 1813 十八年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 374, passages 6, 20
AD 1813 十八年八月
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 367, passages 223, 234-235
AD 1813 嘉慶中
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 388, passage 6
AD 1813 嘉慶十八年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 340, passage 80; Draft History of Qing 351, passage 64; Draft History of Qing 353, passage 121; Draft History of Qing 362, passage 212
AD 1813 嘉慶十八年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 365, passage 6; Draft History of Qing 366, passage 146; Draft History of Qing 377, passage 9

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AD 1813 林清之變
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 374, passage 97

Key source chapters

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Active in
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 367, passage 159
Polity Qing 清 · Relation Rebelled against
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 365, passage 6; Draft History of Qing 374, passage 6
Organization Eight Trigrams sect 八卦教 · Relation Leader of
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 388, passage 6
Organization Lin Qing rebel faction 林清逆黨 · Relation Leader of
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 365, passage 6

Events and relationships

Attacked Forbidden City
Rebellion · Leader · Date Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十八年 · Western Year: AD 1813
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 353, passage 121
Attacked forbidden city
AD 1813 嘉慶十八年 · Military · Rebel leader · At Forbidden City 禁城 · Outcome Assault thwarted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 365, passages 6-7
Attacked
AD 1813 十八年 · Military · Leader · At Forbidden Gate 禁門
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 367, passage 159
Entered Forbidden City
AD 1813 嘉慶十八年 · Military · Rebel leader
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 340, passage 127
His partisans stormed the Forbidden Gate
AD 1813 十八年八月 · Rebellion · Leader · At Forbidden Gate 禁門
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 367, passages 234-235
Raised uprising
AD 1813 嘉慶十八年 · Military · Rebel leader
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 377, passages 9, 62

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Raised sectarian rebellion
Military · Rebel leader
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 64
Raised
AD 1813 嘉慶中 · Rebellion · Leader
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 388, passage 6
Rebelled
AD 1813 十八年 · Military · Rebel leader
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 374, passages 6, 20
Rebelled
AD 1813 嘉慶十八年 · Military · Rebel
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 366, passage 146
Lin Qing rebellion 林清之變
AD 1813 林清之變 · Rebellion · Rebel leader
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 374, passage 97
Relation Fellow rebel of · Person Li Wencheng (李文成)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 388, passage 6

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 367, passage 159; Draft History of Qing 374, passage 97
From Liu Lin 劉林 · To Lin Qing 林清
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 362, passage 212

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History

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 340Volume 340 Biographies 127: Wang Jie, Dong Gao, Zhu Gui · 4 passages

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至十八年林清逆黨之變，上思其言，特賜祭焉。 By 1813, when Lin Qing's rebels struck, the emperor recalled his words and specially granted sacrificial rites in his honor.

林清逆黨突入禁城，時回鑾，中途聞變，有議俟調大兵成列而後進者，誥曰：「是滋亂也，獻俘者行至矣！」 Lin Qing's rebels suddenly entered the Forbidden City; the court was returning from Rehe and heard of the disturbance en route; some proposed waiting until large forces were assembled before advancing—Gao said, "That would only encourage disorder; the captors are already on their way!"

林清既誅，滑縣逆匪尋平，論功，迭被優敘，賜子淳為郎中。 After Lin Qing was executed, the Hua County rebels were soon pacified; in accounting merit Gao received repeated preferential commendation, and his son Chun was given a directorship in a ministry.

及林清之變，獨持鎮定，尤為時稱雲。 At Lin Qing's disturbance he alone kept his composure, which contemporaries especially praised.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 351Volume 351 Biographies 138: Shen Chu, Jin Shisong, Zou Bingtai, Dai Liankui, Wang Yixiu Son: Zong Cheng, Huang Yue · 1 passage

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及教匪林清變起，逆黨多居固安及黃村，追論炳泰在官不能覺察，以中允、贊善降補。 When Lin Qing's sectarian rebellion broke out—many rebels lived in Gu'an and Huangcun—the court held that Bingtai should have known; he was demoted to middle academicianship and tutor.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 353Volume 353 Biographies 140: Da Chun | Son: Sa Bin Tu, Tie Bao Younger Brother: Yu Bao, He Ying, Jue Luo Gui Fang · 3 passages

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林清之變，召對，極言內監通賊有據，因窮治逆黨，內監多銜恨，遍騰謗言。 During the Lin Qing uprising he was summoned to audience and argued forcefully that eunuchs had aided the rebels. His thorough pursuit of the conspiracy earned the hatred of many eunuchs, who spread slander against him far and wide.

十八年，教匪林清逆黨闌入禁城，桂芳方直內廷，偕諸王大臣率兵殲捕，敘勞，加二級。 In 1813 Lin Qing's rebel sect broke into the Forbidden City while Guifang was on duty in the inner court. He joined princes and grand ministers in leading troops to crush the intruders and was rewarded with two steps of promotion.

夫林清先以習教被系，既釋歸，轉益煽亂。 Lin Qing was first arrested for sect activity, and after his release he only fomented rebellion the more.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 362Volume 362 Biographies 149: Fang Ji, Zhu Erhan, Yang Hu, Liao Yin, Chen Changqi, Zhu Ergenge, Cha Chonghua · 3 passages

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高媽達妖言惑眾，捕獲，訊得劉林、祝現謀以次年閏八月望在京師舉事，四方起應之。 Gao Mada was arrested for spreading sedition. Under interrogation he revealed that Liu Lin and Zhu Xian planned an uprising in the capital on the full moon of the intercalary eighth month the following year, with supporters to rise across the empire.

至十八年九月十五日，果有林清、祝現之變，劉林者即林清別名也。 On the fifteenth day of the ninth month of the eighteenth year, the uprising of Lin Qing and Zhu Xian broke out exactly as foretold—Liu Lin being Lin Qing's alias.

查崇華預發林清逆謀，為疆臣所格； Cha Chonghua had forewarned of Lin Qing's conspiracy but was overruled by provincial governors;

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 365Volume 365 Biographies 152: Jue Luo Bao Xing, Zong Shijingzheng, Zong Shixien, Chen Guanjun, Zhuo Bingtian · 1 passage

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十八年，仁宗幸熱河，林清逆黨突入禁城，寶興散直，至東華門與賊遇，急入告警。 In Jiaqing 18 (1813), while the Jiaqing Emperor was at Rehe, Lin Qing's rebels broke into the Forbidden City. Baoxing was between shifts; at the East Flowery Gate he ran into the assailants and dashed inside to sound the alarm.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 366Volume 366 Biographies 153: Sun Yuting, Jiang Youxian, Li Hongbin · 1 passage

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會林清之變，數疏陳時政利弊； At the time of Lin Qing's rebellion he repeatedly memorialized on the strengths and failings of current policy;

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 367Volume 367 Biographies 154: Changling; Na Yancheng and His Sons Rong'an and Rongzhao; Yulin; Teyishunbao · 3 passages

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十八年，河南天理會教匪李文成等倡亂，陷滑縣，直隸、山東皆響應，林清糾黨犯禁門。 In the eighteenth year Li Wencheng and other Heavenly Principle (Tianli) sect rebels in Henan rose in revolt, seized Huaxian, and drew responses from Zhili and Shandong; Lin Qing mustered followers and attacked the Forbidden Gate.

初，命總督溫承惠往剿，清既誅，乃發京兵，授那彥成欽差大臣，加都統銜，督師率楊遇春、楊芳等討之，迭詔責戰甚急。 At first Governor-General Wen Chenghui was ordered to suppress them; after Lin Qing was killed, capital troops were sent out, Na Yancheng was made Imperial Commissioner with commandant rank to direct Yang Yuchun, Yang Fang, and others, and repeated edicts urgently pressed for action.

會林清逆黨犯禁門，率所部擊捕； When Lin Qing's rebels stormed the Forbidden Gate, he led his troops to attack and capture them;

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 374Volume 374 Biographies 161: Yao Wentian, Dai Dunyuan, Zhu Shiyan, He Linghan, Li Zhenhu, Zong Shiengui · 3 passages

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會因林清之變，下詔求言，文田疏陳，略謂：「堯、舜、三代之治，不越教養兩端：為民正趨向之路，知有長上，自不干左道之誅； After the Lin Qing rebellion, the throne called for memorials of counsel; Wentian submitted a memorial arguing, in essence: "The rule of Yao, Shun, and the Three Dynasties rested on only two pillars—moral instruction and material support: by guiding the people onto the proper path so they recognized authority above them, they would not stray into heterodox cults and invite punishment;

頃者林清構逆，搜捕四出，至今未已。 When Lin Qing recently rebelled, searches and arrests were launched everywhere and have not yet ended.

林清之變未起，彗入紫微垣； Before the Lin Qing rebellion, a comet entered the Purple Forbidden Enclosure;

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 377Volume 377 Biographies 164: Bao Guixing, Gu Chun, Wu Xiaoming, Chen Hong, E Mushune, Xu Faji · 2 passages

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十八年，任滿，既受代，聞林清之變，疏陳十事，急馳至京，仁宗嘉之，曰：「汝所奏已次第施行矣。」 In the eighteenth year, as soon as his term ended and he had handed over his post, he learned of Lin Qing's uprising. He submitted a memorial outlining ten measures and rushed to the capital. Emperor Renzong praised him, saying, "The items you raised are already being implemented, one after another."