Wang Changshu (王長述)

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Changshu as an administrator, aristocrat, family member, and general. This record brings together 17 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wang Changshu	王長述	Wang Changshu
Given name	Changshu	長述
Given	Changshu	長述	Chángshù
Courtesy name	Changshu	長述	Chángshù
Title	Duke of Fufeng	扶風郡公
Personal name	Shu	述	Shù
Surname	Wang	王
Surname	Wang	王	Wáng
Personal name	Wang Changshu	王長述
Personal	Wang Changshu	王長述	Wáng Chángshù
Posthumous name	Zhuang	莊

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · suishu:054:s0002, suishu:054:s0256, zhoushu:018:s0070

Roles

Administrator
Aristocrat
Family Member
General
Military Officer
Official

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 後數歳 · Western Year: c. AD 589 · Qualitative: a few years later in early Kaihuang · Manner: illness-on-campaign · Place: en route to Nanning / 道
Explicit · suishu:054:s0026

Age

Age: 8 · Reckoning: sui
Explicit · zhoushu:018:s0071

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 年八歲，周太祖見而異之 · Qualitative: childhood, age eight, during the ascendancy of Zhou Taizu · Western Interval: Start: c. AD 535 · End: c. AD 556
Explicit event contextual date · suishu:054:s0006
Source Date: Text: 周受禪 · Western Year: AD 557
Explicit event contextual date · suishu:054:s0013
Source Date: Text: 年八歲…太祖 · Western Interval: Start: AD 535 · End: AD 541
Explicit event contextual date · zhoushu:018:s0071
Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 618 · Source Date: Text: 隋
Strongly inferred · suishu:054:s0256

Family

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Descendant of Wang Pi (王羆)
Kinship Term: grandson / 孫 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal · Intermediary Person Ids: Qingyuan (慶遠)
Descendant of Pi (羆)
Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: grandfather · Object Role: grandson · Generation Distance: 2
Child of Mo (謨)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Inverse: true · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Child of Qingyuan (慶遠)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Qingyuan (慶遠)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Wang Pi (王羆)
Kinship Term: reared by / 鞠養 · Parentage: foster · Subject Role: grandson · Object Role: grandfather
Parent of Gui (軌)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Parent of Mo (謨)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Parent of Wenkai (文楷)
Kinship Term: youngest son / 少子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: Area Commander of Xinzhou / 信州總管 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 及高祖為丞相 · Western Year: AD 580
Explicit · suishu:054:s0020
Label: Campaign Commander / 行軍總管 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 王謙作亂 · Western Year: AD 580
Explicit · suishu:054:s0022
Label: attendant to the crown prince / 太子舍人 · Action: appointed
Explicit event contextual date · zhoushu:018:s0072
Label: Attendant-in-Ordinary of the Scattered Cavalry / 員外散騎侍郎 · Action: appointed
Explicit · suishu:054:s0007
Label: general who pacifies the distant / 鎮遠將軍 · Action: appointed
Explicit event contextual date · zhoushu:018:s0072
Label: Governor of Guangzhou / 廣州刺史 · Action: appointed
Explicit · suishu:054:s0016
Label: Governor of Jizhou / 晉州刺史 · Action: appointed
Explicit · suishu:054:s0015
Label: Grand Master for Law / 司憲大夫 · Action: appointed
Explicit · suishu:054:s0016
Label: Grand Master of the Guest Department / 賓部大夫 · Action: appointed
Explicit · suishu:054:s0014
Label: Secretariat Aide / 中書舍人 · Action: appointed
Explicit · suishu:054:s0011
Label: Campaign Commander / 行軍總管 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 後數歳 · Western Year: c. AD 589 · Qualitative: a few years later in early Kaihuang
Explicit event contextual date · suishu:054:s0026
Label: Commander of the upstream (Yangtze) forces / 上流之師 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開皇初 · Western Year: AD 581
Explicit · suishu:054:s0024
Label: Area Commander of Renzhou / 仁州總管 · Action: held
Explicit · suishu:054:s0019
Label: Area Commander of Xiangzhou / 襄州總管 · Action: held
Explicit · suishu:054:s0019
Label: Compiler of the Diurnal Records / 起居注 · Action: held
Explicit · suishu:054:s0011
Label: Governor of Jizhou / 冀州刺史 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · suishu:054:s0027
Label: Aide to the Crown Prince / 太子舍人 · Action: promoted
Explicit · suishu:054:s0008
Label: General Who Pacifies the Army / 撫軍將軍 · Action: promoted
Explicit · suishu:054:s0008
Label: Grand General-in-Chief / 上大將軍 · Action: promoted
Explicit · suishu:054:s0020
Label: Grand General / 大將軍 · Action: promoted · Reason: court commendation
Explicit · suishu:054:s0018
Label: Grand Master for Splendid Happiness with the Silver Seal / 銀青光祿大夫 · Action: promoted
Explicit · suishu:054:s0008
Label: supreme general / 上大將軍 · Action: promoted
Explicit event contextual date · zhoushu:018:s0079
Label: Chief Clerk of the Area Commander of Yubi / 玉壁總管長史 · Action: transferred
Explicit · suishu:054:s0015
Action: increased · Fief Households: 500 · Reason: merit pacifying Jiangling · Date Context: Source Date: Text: AD 554 · Western Year: AD 554
Explicit · suishu:054:s0012
Action: increased · Total Fief Households: 4700 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 周受禪 · Western Year: AD 557
Explicit · suishu:054:s0013
Label: 500 taels of gold / 黃金五百兩 · Action: granted · Authority Person Id: Emperor Wen (高祖)
Explicit · suishu:054:s0022
Title: Earl of Chang'an County / 長安縣伯 · Action: enfeoffed
Explicit · suishu:054:s0007
Title: Duke of Fufeng Commandery / 扶風郡公 · Action: inherited · Fief Households: 3000
Explicit · suishu:054:s0010
Title: Duke of Fufeng commandery / 扶風郡公 · Action: inherited
Explicit event contextual date · zhoushu:018:s0079
Title: Senior Pillar of the State / 上柱國 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · suishu:054:s0027
Title: Pillar of the State / 柱國 · Action: promoted · Reason: merit against Wang Qian
Explicit · suishu:054:s0023
Title: Duke of Longmen Commandery / 龍門郡公 · Action: re-enfeoffed
Explicit · suishu:054:s0011
Status: mourning leave · Action: left-office
Explicit event contextual date · zhoushu:018:s0073

Places and affiliations

Polity: Sui / 隋 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · suishu:054:s0256
Place: Bacheng in Jingzhao / 京兆霸城
Explicit · suishu:054:s0003

Works and attributed material

Kind: edict · Role: addressee · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Emperor Wen (高祖)
Explicit · suishu:054:s0025
Kind: remark · Role: addressee · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Zhou Taizu (周太祖)
Explicit · suishu:054:s0006

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: military-commander · Action: attacked · Place: Nanning / 南寧 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 後數歳 · Western Year: c. AD 589 · Qualitative: a few years later in early Kaihuang
Explicit event contextual date · suishu:054:s0026
Kind: military · Role: subordinate-commander · Action: campaigned-and-pacified · Place: Jiangling / 江陵 · With Person Id: Yu Jin (于謹) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: AD 554 (following Yu Jin) · Western Year: AD 554
Explicit · suishu:054:s0012
Kind: career · Role: official · Action: governed-provinces-or-palace-guard · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · suishu:054:s0256
Kind: political · Role: loyalist · Action: intercepted-rebel-envoy-and-submitted-plan · Other Person Id: Wang Qian (王謙) · Place: Yizhou / 益州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 王謙作亂 · Western Year: AD 580
Explicit · suishu:054:s0021
Kind: military · Role: military-commander · Action: led-forces-against · Other Person Id: Wang Qian (王謙) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 王謙作亂 · Western Year: AD 580
Explicit · suishu:054:s0022
Kind: military · Role: strategist · Action: proposed-plan-to-conquer · Place: Chen / 陳 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開皇初 · Western Year: AD 581
Explicit · suishu:054:s0024
Kind: political · Role: administrator · Action: received-submission-of · Detail: more than 30,000 barbarian households submitted · Place: Guangzhou / 廣州
Explicit · suishu:054:s0017
Kind: military · Role: military-commander · Action: suppressed-and-pacified · Place: Xinzhou / 信州 · Detail: Yi and Liao tribes · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 及高祖為丞相 · Western Year: AD 580
Explicit · suishu:054:s0020
Relation: raised-by · Person Id: Pi (羆) · Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖
Explicit · suishu:054:s0009
Relation: recognized-by · Person Id: Emperor Wen of Zhou (周文帝)
Explicit · zhoushu:018:s0071

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: did not let family tradition fall · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · zhoushu:018:s0206
Assessment: the emperor mourned him deeply and sent envoys to perform rites of condolence · Provenance: Mode: narrator-report
Explicit · suishu:054:s0027
Assessment: won renown and ended in merit and fame · Label: whether governing provinces or serving in the palace guard, all won renown and ended in merit and fame / 或出總方嶽，或入司禁旅，鹹著聲績，以功名終 · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · suishu:054:s0256
Kind: character · Statement: dignified bearing from childhood
Explicit · suishu:054:s0006
Kind: character · Statement: orphaned young; mourning for his grandfather Pi exceeded the rites, praised by imperial edict
Explicit · suishu:054:s0009
Kind: governance · Statement: combined stern authority with kindness; won the loyalty of officials and commoners
Explicit · suishu:054:s0017