Overview
Son of Wang Sengqian was a Student and Family Member.
IdentityHistorical · Male · Anonymous individuated
Life and dates
Age
- AD 420 to AD 479 宋Label years of standing / vigorous years 壯年／入立境Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 213, 225
Attested activity
- AD 420 to AD 479 宋Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 184, 213, 225
Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
- Child of Wang Sengqian (王僧虔)son 子 · paternal line
father 父 · paternal lineStrongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 184, 225, 231
Career and standing
- household cares 室累Household head with dependentsDirectly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 225
Places and affiliations
- AD 420 to AD 479 宋Polity Id liu-song · Relation Lived underDated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 184, 225
Works and attributed material
- Laozi 老子Relation StudiedDirectly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 191
- Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志Relation StudiedDirectly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 188
- What day do we not study?Quoted speech · Attributed speaker · Direct quotationUncertain · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 206-208
Events and relationships
- Could not name the sixty four hexagrams, Inner versus Outer Zhuangzi, schools in the Eight Fascicles, or the strong point of the Four RootsScholarly · SubjectDirectly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 199-202
- Opened only a foot or five of the Laozi yet brandished the fly whisk and called himself a talkerScholarly · SubjectDirectly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 191
- Turned toward history, piled the Records of the Three Kingdoms at the bedhead for about a hundred days, then shifted to arcane learningScholarly · StudentDirectly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 188
- Was about to take office, with household burdens dragging his temperCareer · SubjectDirectly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 225
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment chafes at being forbidden to study and has often sung of reform without the deed · Mode named-source-report Speaker Wang Sengqian (王僧虔)Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 184-185, 187
- Assessment has not seen the commentaries and xuanxue staples even in passing; spends the day bluffing others · Mode named-source-report Speaker Wang Sengqian (王僧虔)Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 195, 198, 203
- Item fly-whisk 麈尾 · Relation UsedDirectly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 191
Source notes
- Historicity historicalStrongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 184