Five Dynasties · Rebel

Wang Deming 王德明

Died AD 921

Passages
43
Chapters
16
Histories
3

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Deming as a general, military officer, named individual, and official. This record brings together 43 passages from 16 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Wang Deming 王德明 Wang Deming
Alternate name Deming 德明 Deming
Personal Deming 德明
Personal Wang Deming 王德明
Personal name Wang Deming 王德明 Wang Deming
Personal Wang Deming 王德明 Wáng Démíng
Alternate name Wang Deming 王德明 Wang Deming
Personal name Wenli 文禮 Wenli
Given Wenli 文禮 Wenli
Given name Wenli 文禮 Wenli
Personal name Zhang Wenli 張文禮 Zhang Wenli
Personal name Zhang Wenli 張文禮 Zhāng Wénlǐ
Personal Zhang Wenli 張文禮 Zhang Wenli

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • General
  • Military Officer
  • Named Individual
  • Official
  • Rebel
  • Warlord

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: died of shock from abscess / 驚悸而卒 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 是歲八月 · Western Year: AD 921
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:062:s0091
  • Manner: unspecified
    Explicit · liaoshi:002:s0055

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 龍德元年二月 · Regnal Year: 1 · Lunar Month: 2 · Western Year: AD 921
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:010:s0075
  • Source Date: Text: AD 921 · Western Year: AD 921
    Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:026:s0003
  • Source Date: Text: 十八年，從征張文禮 · Western Year: AD 921
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:057:s0016
  • Source Date: Text: 十八年 · Western Year: AD 921
    Explicit · xinwudaishi:044:s0086
  • Source Date: Text: 唐天祐十八年二月 · Western Year: AD 921
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:141:s0074
  • Source Date: Text: 天祐七年 · Western Year: AD 910
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:054:s0082
  • Source Date: Text: 天祐八年 · Western Year: AD 911
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:054:s0106
  • Source Date: Text: 天祐末 · Western Year: AD 921
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0057
  • Source Date: Text: 天贊元年 · Western Year: AD 922
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0053, liaoshi:002:s0055
  • Source Date: Text: 天贊初 · Western Year: AD 922
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:113:s0006
  • Source Date: Text: 延徽南奔後 · Western Year: AD 920
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:074:s0053
  • Western Year: AD 921 · Source Date: Text: 張文禮殺王鎔，時莊宗未即尊位，文禮遣馥至鄴都勸進，因留鄴下，棲遲郵舍。
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0077
  • Source Date: Text: 從討張文禮 · Western Year: AD 921
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:069:s0021
  • Source Date: Text: 是歲八月 · Western Year: AD 921
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:062:s0090
  • Source Date: Text: 柏鄉戰勝之後 · Western Year: AD 911
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:062:s0066
  • Source Date: Text: 神冊六年前 · Western Interval: Start: AD 920 · End: AD 921
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:075:s0096, liaoshi:075:s0099
  • Source Date: Text: 莊宗遣…討張文禮 · Western Interval: Start: AD 923 · End: AD 926
    Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:019:s0025
  • Source Date: Text: 龙德元年春 · Western Year: AD 921
    Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:003:s0107

Family

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  • Child of Wang Rong (王熔)
    Kinship Term: adopted son / 義男 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: adopted son / 養子 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: adopted son / 義男 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Union Category: other
  • Spouse of Mother of Zhang Chujin (張處瑾母)
    Kinship Term: mother of his sons / 母 · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife · Union Category: uncertain
  • Parent of Zhang Chuqi (張處琪)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  • Parent of Zhang Chuqiu (張處球)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  • Parent of Zhang Chujin (張處瑾)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: doomed-to-defeat · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: those versed in omens / 識者
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:141:s0074
  • Assessment: fierce, treacherous, coarse in speech · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:062:s0059

Source notes

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 10Volume 10 Book of Later Liang 10: Later Emperors Annals 3 · 1 passage
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 54Volume 54 Book of Later Tang 30: Biographies 6: Wang Rong, Wang Zhaohui, Wang Chuzhi · 5 passages
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 57Volume 57 Book of Later Tang 33: Biographies 9: Gao Chongtao · 1 passage
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 62Volume 62 Book of Later Tang 38: Biographies 14: Meng Fangli, Zhang Wenli, Dong Zhang · 14 passages
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 69Volume 69 Book of Later Tang 45: Biographies 21: Zhang Xian, Wang Zhengyan, Hu Zhuang, Cui Yisun, Meng Hu, Sun Yue, Zhang Yanlang, Liu Yanhao, Liu Yanlang · 1 passage
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 71Volume 71 Book of Later Tang 47: Biographies 23: Ma Yu, Si Kongting, Cao Tingyin, Xiao Xifu, Yao Zongzhi, Jia Fu, Ma Gao, Luo Guan, Chun Yuyan, Zhang Ge, Xu Ji, Zhou Xuanbao · 1 passage
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 121Volume 121 Book of Later Zhou 23: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 2 passages
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 141Volume 141: Treatises 3 Five Elements · 1 passage
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History of Liao, Chapter 2Volume 2 Annals 2: Taizu 2 · 2 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 74Volume 74 Biographies 4: Yelu Dila, Xiao Hendu, Kang Moji, Han Yanhui, Han Zhigu · 3 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 75Volume 75 Biographies 5: Yelu Dilie, Yelu Duozhen, Wang Yu, Yelu Tulujiong · 1 passage
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History of Liao, Chapter 113Volume 113 Biographies 43: Rebellious Officials 2 · 1 passage
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 3Volume 3 Later Liang Annals 3: Later Emperors · 2 passages
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 19Volume 19: Taizu of Later Zhou's Family · 2 passages
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 26Volume 26 Later Tang Biographies 6: Fu Xi, Wu Zhen, Kong Qian, Zhang Yanlang, Li Yan, Li Renju, Mao Zhang · 5 passages
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 44Volume 44 Miscellaneous Biographies 24: Liu Zhijun, Ding Hui, He Delun, Yan Bao, Kang Yanxiao · 1 passage
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