Ancient China · Ruler

King Wuling of Zhao 趙武靈王

Zhào Wǔlíng Wáng

Attested BC 325 - BC 295

Passages
5
Chapters
2
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify King Wuling of Zhao as a ruler. This record brings together 5 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal King Wuling of Zhao 趙武靈王 Zhào Wǔlíng Wáng
Title King Wuling of Zhao 趙武靈王 Zhào Wǔlíng Wáng
Title King Wuling of Zhao 趙武靈王 Zhao Wuling Wang
Regnal Wuling 武靈 Wuling

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 故趙武靈王以表武士 · Western Interval: Start: BC 325 · End: BC 299
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:131:s0099
  • Source Date: Text: 武靈王有沙丘之亂 · Western Year: BC 295
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:080:s0006
  • Source Date: Text: 趙武靈王好服之 · Western Interval: Start: BC 325 · End: BC 299
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:131:s0091
  • Source Date: Text: 趙武靈王效胡服 · Western Interval: Start: BC 325 · End: BC 299
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:131:s0071
  • Source Date: Text: 趙武靈王時復滅中山 · Western Year: BC 295
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:080:s0004

Places and affiliations

Events and relationships

  • Kind: cultural · Role: adopter · Action: copied-Hu-dress-with-gold-knob-and-sable
  • Kind: personal · Role: wearer · Action: loved-Shi-clan-cap
  • Kind: military · Role: innovator · Action: marked-warriors-with-pheasant-plumes

References in the histories

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Book of Later Han, Chapter 131Volume 120: Treatise on Carriages and Dress, Part Two · 3 passages
Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 80Biography of Yue Yi · 2 passages