Overview
The translated histories identify Wang Bai as an astronomer, diviner, military officer, and official. This record brings together 9 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Wang Bai | 王白 | Wáng Bái |
| Personal name | Bai | 白 | Bái |
| Surname | Wang | 王 | Wáng |
| Personal name | Wang Bai | 王白 | Wáng Bái |
| Personal | Wang Bai | 王白 | Wang Bai |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · liaoshi:042:s0231
- Sex: maleExplicit · liaoshi:108:s0064
Roles
- Astronomer
- Diviner
- Military Officer
- Official
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 應曆11年 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 11 · Western Year: AD 961Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:006:s0161
- Source Date: Text: 穆宗應歷十一年 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 11 · Western Year: AD 961Explicit · liaoshi:042:s0231
- Source Date: Text: 應歷十九年 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 19 · Western Year: AD 969Explicit · liaoshi:108:s0065
- Source Date: Text: 保寧中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 969 · End: AD 979Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:108:s0068
- Source Date: Text: 天祿元年 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:108:s0017, liaoshi:108:s0018
- Source Date: Text: 太宗入汴得之 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:108:s0064
Career and standing
- Label: Associate Director of the Bureau of Astronomy / 司天少監 · Action: held · Polity: Jin / 晉Explicit · liaoshi:108:s0064
- Label: Astronomical Bureau director / 司天 · Action: heldExplicit · liaoshi:006:s0161
- Label: official of the Directorate of Astronomy / 司天 · Action: heldExplicit · liaoshi:042:s0231
- Label: military commissioner of the Xingguo Army / 興國軍節度使 · Action: served · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保寧中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 969 · End: AD 979Explicit · liaoshi:108:s0068
- Label: military commissioner of the Zhangwu Army / 彰武軍節度使 · Action: served · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保寧中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 969 · End: AD 979Explicit · liaoshi:108:s0068
Places and affiliations
- Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
- Place: Jizhou / 冀州Explicit · liaoshi:108:s0064
Learning and skills
- Skill: divination and milfoil / 卜筮 · Level: excelledExplicit · liaoshi:108:s0064
- Skill: astronomy / 天文 · Level: understoodExplicit · liaoshi:108:s0064
Works and attributed material
- Work: Song of a Hundred Hits / 百中歌 · Relation: authorExplicit · liaoshi:108:s0069
- Explicit · liaoshi:108:s0065
- Kind: divination · Role: speaker · Quoted: trueExplicit · liaoshi:108:s0018, liaoshi:108:s0021
Events and relationships
- Kind: acquisition · Role: acquired-person · Action: obtained-by · Other Person Id: Yaogu (堯骨) · Place: Bian / 汴Explicit · liaoshi:108:s0064
- Kind: divination-contest · Role: diviner · Action: predicted-chestnut-horse · Other Person Id: Wei Lin (魏璘)
- Kind: divination · Role: diviner · Action: predicted-survival-and-kingship · Other Person Id: Zhimel (只沒)Explicit · liaoshi:108:s0065, liaoshi:108:s0066
- Kind: scholarly · Role: presenter · Action: presented-calendar · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 穆宗應歷十一年 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 11 · Western Year: AD 961Explicit · liaoshi:042:s0231
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: no great gains or losses; fitting to record · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · liaoshi:108:s0061
References in the histories
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