This page is referenced by:

• 1 2021-09-19T10:55:11-04:00 I.5 QSL DG 366__22-24 2 plain 2021-09-19T10:56:16-04:00

  Download the PDF version of the file.
  
  I.5 Qing Veritable Records, entry for DG 22.1.28

  QSL, DG 366:2-24, DG 22.1 ding-chou

  Glossary

  Note that many of the definitions here are brief. Click on the link to get fuller information.

  諭內閣 - yu neige - His Majesty sent an edict to the Grand Secretariat

  生捦 - shengqin - capture alive

  欣慰之至 - xin wei zhi zhi - extreme satisfaction

  連陷 - lianxian - successively conquered

  通城 - Tongcheng - place name

  勤王 - qinwang - loyal king

  偽 - wei - illegitimate

  豎立 - shuli - set up, raise

  都督大元帥 - dudu da yuanshuai - commander-in-chief and grand marshal

  千總 - qianzong - Company Commander, a low-level rank (6a) in the Green Standards (Hucker)

  攻撲 - gongpu - attack

  覆載不容 - fu zai bu rong - intolerable to heaven and earth

  調撥 - diaobo - to deploy

  經 - jing - have undergone

  擊斃 - jibi - attack and slaughter

  嗣 - si - afterward

  弁 - bian - military officers

  昨 - zuo - in the past, yesterday

  降旨 - jiangzhi - (this "decree" was probably an earlier shang-yu appearing in QSL, DG 366:5b-7, a "so far so good" reward for Yu-tai)

  交部議敘 - jiao bu yi xu - Refer his case to the Board [of Civil Office] to be recommended for a raise in administrative rank.

  將次 - jiangci - step by step

  夏廷樾 - Xia Tingyue - personal name

  金雲門 - Jin Yunmen - personal name

  懸賞招覓士民 - xuanshang zhaomi shimin - post rewards to attract the scholars and commoners

  羈縻 - jimi - restrain, as with a halter

  內應 - neiying- a response from within (to support an attack from without)

  石盤山 - Shipanshan - place name

  游擊 - youji - Brigade Commander (Hucker)

  謝正國 - Xie Zhengguo - personal name

  黑橋 - Heiqiao - place name

  接仗 - jiezhang - engage (the enemy)

  陣殲 - zhenjian - killed on the battlefield

  距...地方 - ju...difang - be at a certain distance from a place

  白蟻橋 - Baiyiqiao - place name. It was probably mistaken for 白霓橋, a strategic point to the east of the county seat of Chongyang, and an important commercial town.

  誘令 - youling - entice (and thus cause...)

  義勇 - yiyong - militia braves

  洪上 - Hongshang - place name

  安撫 - anfu - pacify, calm

  接應 - jieying - meet and reinforce

  謀勇兼施 - mouyong jianshi - employing both strategy and courage

  迅 - xun - quickly

  掃 - sao - sweep up

  欃槍 - chancheng - a comet (an evil omen signifying rebellion; by extension, the leader of a rebellion)

  甫 - fu - just, only just

  四旬 - sixun - forty days

  甚屬可嘉 - shenshu kejia - is extremely praiseworthy

  花翎 - hualing - peacock feather (See a picture of the Qing official's hat)

  太子太保 - taizi taibao - Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent, normal rank 1b

  銜 - xian - honorary title

  雙眼花翎 - shuangyan hualing - double-eyed peacock feather

  祗領 - zhiling - to be received with reverence

  保奏 - baozou - submit memorials of recommendation

  朕 - zhen - I (personal pronoun exclusive to the emperor, i.e., the royal "We")

  施恩 - shi-en - confer (imperial) favor

  焚香跪道 - fenxiang guidao - burn incense and kneel by the roadside

  不妄殺戮 - buwang shalu - refrain from indiscriminate slaughter

  敉謐 - mimi - pacified

  甚慰 - shenwei - greatly comforted

  留撤 - liuche - retain or withdraw

  善後 - shanhou - dealing with the aftermath (of a disaster)

  事宜 - shiyi - matters, affairs

  妥籌 - tuochou - devise appropriately

  檻送 - jiansong - send in a prisoner-cage

  京師 - jingshi - the capital, Beijing

  盡法 - jinfa - to the limit of the law

  處治 - chuzhi - punish

  通諭 - tongyu - an edict for promulgation throughout the realm

  中外 - zhongwai - at the capital and in the provinces