Wan Chengfeng (萬承風)

Overview

Wan Chengfeng was an official and Tutor.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Hepu	和圃	Hepu
Posthumous name	Wenge	文恪	Wenge

Life and dates

Death

AD 1812 嘉慶十七年
died soon after retiring for illness
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 22

Attested activity

AD 1807 嘉慶十二年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 15
AD 1809 嘉慶十四年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 18
AD 1812 嘉慶十七年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 22
AD 1798 嘉慶三年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 9
AD 1799 嘉慶四年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 354, passages 10-11
AD 1781 乾隆四十六年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 4

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AD 1795 乾隆六十年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 6

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Wan Fangmao (方楙)
son 子
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 24

Kinship Role sons · Count 2 · Fangmao and at least one other son (等)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 24

Career and standing

education commissioner of Jiangsu 江蘇學政
AD 1807 嘉慶十二年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 15
education commissioner of Guangdong 廣東學政
AD 1799 嘉慶四年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 10
Hanlin bachelor 庶吉士
AD 1781 乾隆四十六年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 4
reviser 檢討
AD 1781 乾隆四十六年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 4
chief examiner for Yunnan 典試雲南
AD 1795 乾隆六十年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 6
education commissioner of Anhui 安徽學政
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 19

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education commissioner of Shandong 山東學政
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 13
expositor of the Hanlin Academy 侍講學士
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 12
grand tutor of the heir apparent 詹事
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 12
lecturer at the Classics Colloquium 經筵講官
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 21
reader-in-waiting in the Hanlin Academy 翰林院侍讀
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 8
Upper Study tutor 上書房
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 5
vice minister of rites 禮部侍郎
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 14
vice minister of war 兵部侍郎
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 21
academician of the Grand Secretariat 內閣學士
AD 1809 嘉慶十四年 · Demoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 18
reviser 檢討
AD 1798 嘉慶三年 · Demoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 9
Ministry of War 兵部
Transferred
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 17
posthumous grand tutor 晉贈太傅
AD 1832 道光十二年 · Bestowed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 24
posthumous minister of rites 贈禮部尚書銜
Bestowed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 23
enshrined in local worthies' temple 入祀鄉賢祠
Received
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 22
Entered
AD 1812 嘉慶十七年 · Retirement
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 22
Received
AD 1809 嘉慶十四年 · Rebuke
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 18

Places and affiliations

At Yining, Jiangxi 江西義寧
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 3

Learning and skills

Earned
AD 1781 乾隆四十六年 · Credential Presented Scholar 進士
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 4

Works and attributed material

Memorial · Author · Topic Dingyuan scholars and Fengyang runners
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 20
Memorial · Author · Topic Qingjiangpu and Hehuatang river works
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 16

Events and relationships

Reported piracy
Political · Reporter · At Qiongzhou 瓊州 · With Jueluo Jiqing (覺羅吉慶)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 11
Tutored
Educational · Tutor · With Daoguang Emperor (道光帝) · At Upper Study 上書房
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 5
Relation Teacher of · Person Daoguang Emperor (道光帝)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passages 5, 23

Assessments and attributes

Assessment outstanding proposals as attendant minister on inspection tours · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 354, passage 206

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 354Volume 354 Biographies 141: Wan Chengfeng, Zhou Xiying, Qian Yue, Qin Ying, Li Zonghan, Han Dingjin, Zhu Fangzeng · 7 passages

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萬承風周系英錢樾秦瀛李宗瀚韓鼎晉朱方增 Wan Chengfeng, Zhou Xiying, Qian Yue, Qin Ying, Li Zonghan, Han Dingjin, and Zhu Fangzeng

萬承風，字和圃，江西義寧人。 Wan Chengfeng, whose style was Hepu, came from Yining in Jiangxi.

瓊州海寇猝發，承風以聞，命總督吉慶按治，總兵西密揚阿等以恇怯置吏議。 When pirates suddenly struck Qiongzhou, Chengfeng reported the crisis; the court ordered Governor-General Ji Qing to investigate, and Regional Commander Ximiyang'a and others were brought up for discipline on charges of cowardice.

十四年，上五旬萬壽，陳請解任還京祝嘏，詔嚴斥，左遷內閣學士。 In the fourteenth year, when the emperor celebrated his fiftieth birthday, Chengfeng asked to leave his post and return to the capital to offer congratulations; the throne rebuked him sharply and demoted him to academician of the Grand Secretariat.

定遠士子與鳳陽胥役有隙，至試期輒修怨，當事者庇胥役，士益憤，承風疏請下巡撫嚴治胥役，置諸法。 Scholars in Dingyuan were at odds with clerical runners from Fengyang, and each examination season revived their quarrel while local officials shielded the runners, deepening the scholars' anger. Chengfeng memorialized the governor to punish the runners severely and bring them to justice.

宣宗即位，追念舊學，贈禮部尚書銜，諡文恪。 When Emperor Xuanzong took the throne he remembered their years as tutor and pupil and posthumously granted him minister of rites with the posthumous title Wenge.

論曰：萬承風、周系英、錢樾以侍從之臣，軺車所至，建白卓然。 The commentator writes: As attendant ministers, Wan Chengfeng, Zhou Xiying, and Qian Yue made outstanding proposals wherever their inspection tours took them.