Wang Guan (王觀) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Guan as an administrator and official. This record brings together 5 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wang Guan	王觀	Wang Guan
Courtesy	Shangbin	尚賓	Shangbin

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · mingshi:140:s0174

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 洪武間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1368 · End: AD 1398
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:140:s0176, mingshi:140:s0179

Career and standing

Label: prefect of Suzhou / 知蘇州府 · Action: appointed
Explicit · mingshi:140:s0176

Places and affiliations

Label: Ming / 明 · Relation: served
Explicit · mingshi:140:s0176
Place: Xiangfu / 祥符
Explicit · mingshi:140:s0174

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: executor · Action: beaten-to-death · Other Person Id: Qian Ying (錢英)
Explicit · mingshi:140:s0178

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: counted among Five Prefects of Gusu · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · mingshi:140:s0183

References in the histories

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History of Ming, Chapter 140Volume 140 Biographies 28: Wei Guan, Tao Houzhong, Liu Shihuan, Wang Zongxian, Lu Wensui, Wang Guan, Dao Tong, Lu Xi, Qing Wensheng · 5 passages

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王觀 Wang Guan

王觀，字尚賓，祥符人。 Wang Guan, whose style was Shangbin, came from Xiangfu.

黠吏錢英屢陷長官，觀捶殺之。 A crafty clerk named Qian Ying had repeatedly framed his superiors; Guan had him beaten to death.

觀置酒，延諸富人，勸貸貧民償，辭指誠懇，富人皆感動，逋賦以完。 Guan held a feast for the wealthy and urged them to lend money so the poor could pay their taxes. His appeal was so sincere that the rich were moved to comply, and the arrears were cleared.

守蘇者前有季亨、魏觀，後有姚善、況鐘，皆賢，稱「姑蘇五太守」，並祀學宮。 The worthy prefects of Suzhou included Ji Heng and Wei Guan in the early years and Yao Shan and Kuang Zhong later; with Guan they were known as the "Five Prefects of Gusu" and all were enshrined in the school temple.