Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and Statesman

Wang Dao 王導

Attested AD 317 - AD 420

Passages: 6
Chapters: 6
Histories: 4

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Dao as an official and statesman. This record brings together 6 passages from 6 chapters across 4 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wang Dao	王導	Wang Dao
Title	Chancellor	丞相
Personal name	Dao	導
Given	Dao	導	Dǎo
Title	Director Wang	王司徒
Title	Jin Chancellor Dao	晉丞相導
Surname	Wang	王
Surname	Wang	王	Wáng
Personal name	Wang Dao	王導	Wang Dao
Personal name	Wang Dao	王導	Wáng Dǎo

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jinshu:108:s0133, liangshu:007:s0071, nanqishu:016:s0038, songshu:076:s0006
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liangshu:016:s0003

Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 晉 · Western Interval: Start: AD 317 · End: AD 339
Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:007:s0071
Source Date: Text: 晉 · Western Interval: Start: AD 317 · End: AD 420
Explicit · liangshu:016:s0003
Source Date: Text: 晉世 · Western Interval: Start: AD 317 · End: AD 339
Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:016:s0038
Source Date: Text: 東晉 · Western Interval: Start: AD 317 · End: AD 339
Explicit event contextual date · songshu:076:s0006
Source Date: Text: 永初元年 · Western Year: AD 420
Explicit event contextual date · songshu:003:s0043
Source Date: Text: 王司徒 · Western Interval: Start: AD 317 · End: AD 333
Explicit event contextual date · jinshu:108:s0133

Family

Ancestor of Wang Liang (王亮)
Kinship Term: sixth-generation descendant / 六世孫 · Generation Distance: 6 · Line: paternal

Career and standing

Label: Minister of Education / 司徒 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 晉世 · Western Interval: Start: AD 317 · End: AD 339
Explicit · nanqishu:016:s0038
Label: Chancellor / 丞相 · Action: held
Explicit · liangshu:007:s0071, songshu:003:s0043

Assessments and attributes

Item: granted fields later held by Wang Qian / 賜田 · Relation: bestowed
Explicit · liangshu:007:s0071

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · nanqishu:016:s0038

References in the histories

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Book of Jin, Chapter 108Volume 108 Records 8: Murong Hui · 1 passage

王司徒清虛寡欲，善於全己，昔曹參亦綜此道，著畫一之稱也。 He praised Wang Dao's quiet survival craft.

Book of Liang, Chapter 7Volume 7: Empresses · 1 passage

時高祖於鐘山造大愛敬寺，騫舊墅在寺側，有良田八十餘頃，卽晉丞相王導賜田也。 Gaozu was building the Great Temple of Filial Reverence on Zhong Mountain; Qian's old villa lay beside it, with more than eighty qing of fine fields—the very grant of Jin chancellor Wang Dao.

Book of Liang, Chapter 16Volume 16: Wang Liang; Zhang Ji; Wang Ying · 1 passage

王亮字奉叔，琅邪臨沂人，晉丞相導之六世孫也。 Wang Liang, styled Fengshu, came from Linyi in Langye—a sixth-generation descendant of Jin Chancellor Dao.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 16Volume 16 Treatises 8: Official Posts · 1 passage

晉世王導爲司徒，右長史干寶撰立官府，《職儀》已具。 Under Jin, Wang Dao was Minister of Education; his right senior recorder Gan Bao drew up the office establishment—the Protocols of Office already cover it.

Book of Song, Chapter 3Volume 3 Annals 3: Emperor Wu 3 · 1 passage

始安公封荔浦縣侯，長沙公封醴陵縣侯，康樂公可即封縣侯，各五百戶：以奉晉故丞相王導、太傅謝安、大將軍溫嶠、大司馬陶侃、車騎將軍謝玄之祀。 the Duke of Shi'an enfeoffed as Marquis of Lipu County, the Duke of Changsha as Marquis of Liling County, the Duke of Kangle immediately enfeoffed as county marquis, each with five hundred households—to maintain the sacrifices to former Jin Chancellor Wang Dao, Grand Tutor Xie An, Grand General Wen Qiao, Grand Marshal Tao Kan, and Cavalry General Xie Xuan.

Book of Song, Chapter 76Volume 76 Biographies 36: Zhu Xiuzhi, Zong Que, Wang Xuanmo · 1 passage

脩之自州主簿遷司徒從事中郎，文帝謂曰：「卿曾祖昔為王導丞相中郎，卿今又為王弘中郎，可謂不忝爾祖矣。」 Xiuzhi advanced from provincial chief clerk to Attendant Gentleman under the Minister over the Masses (Situ). Emperor Wen told him, "Your great-grandfather once served as a director in Chancellor Wang Dao's secretariat, and you now hold the same post under Wang Hong—you have not disgraced your forebears."