Lai Enjue

Lai Enjue
Lai Enjue
賴恩爵
Personal details
Born	1795; Dapeng Fortress, Kwangtung, Qing Dynasty
Died	1848 (aged 52–53) ; Qing Dynasty
Awards	Baturu
Military service
Allegiance	Qing Dynasty
Commands	Deputy General of Dapeng Garrison (Stationed in Kowloon) ; Lieutenant General of Naam Ou Garrison (1841-1843) ; Admiral of Kwangtung Province (1843-1848)
Battles/wars	First Opium War Battle of Kowloon; ;
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	賴恩爵
Simplified Chinese	赖恩爵
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Lài Ēnjué
Wade–Giles	Lai4 Ên1-tsüeh2
IPA	[ʈʂʰə̌n tɕjʊ̀ŋmǐŋ]
Hakka
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ	Lai Ên-chiok
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	Laai6 Jan1-zoek3
IPA	[[Help:IPA/Cantonese\|[[unsupported input]ɛn˧˥ j[unsupported input]mɪŋ˧˥]]]
Courtesy name
Traditional Chinese	簡廷
Simplified Chinese	简廷
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Jiǎn Tíng
Wade–Giles	Chien3 T'ing2
Hakka
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ	Kián Thìn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	Gaan2 Ting4

Lai Enjue (Chinese: 賴恩爵, 1795–1848), also known as Jian Ting (簡廷) was a late Qing military general. He was from Dapeng Fortress, Xin'an County, Guangdong (within modern-day Dapeng New District, Shenzhen), and has ancestry from Zijin County, Guangdong. Lai fought the British in the Battle of Kowloon during the First Opium War in 1839 and was given the title of Baturu and an equivalent rank of Lieutenant General. On 25 December 1843, he was appointed as the Admiral (水師提督) of the Guangdong Navy. He served in this post until 1848 when he died of illness.

Just before Lai died, he told his family clan that his wish was to see the return of Hong Kong to China. Ten days before the handover of Hong Kong on 1 July 1997, more than a hundred of the Lai clan descendants from different parts of the world returned to their ancestral home to mark the event.^[1]

Lai worked directly under the orders of Emperor Daoguang and Lin Zexu, both prominent figures in the First Opium War. The current Kowloon Walled City's "Dapeng Association House" forms the remnants of what was previously Lai's garrison. His tomb is under the maintenance of the Shenzhen Cultural Protection Division.^[2]^[3]^[4]

References

↑ "大鹏赖氏家族：前辈守御领土后人遍布全球". Archived from the original on 2021-02-02. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
↑ "论赖恩爵的历史地位". Retrieved 9 May 2016.
↑ "赖恩爵". Archived from the original on 4 June 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
↑ "Tourist Attractions". Archived from the original on 5 August 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2016.

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