Wang Guangyang (汪廣洋)

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Guangyang as an aristocrat, calligrapher, official, and poet. This record brings together 18 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 Guangyang	汪廣洋	Wāng Guǎngyáng
Title	Baron of Loyal Diligence	忠勤伯
Courtesy name	Chaozong	朝宗	Cháozōng
Given	Guangyang	廣洋
Surname	Wang	汪
Personal name	Wang Guangyang	汪廣洋	Wāng Guǎngyáng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · mingshi:127:s0116

Roles

Aristocrat
Calligrapher
Official
Poet
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution · Place: Taiping / 太平 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十二年十二月 · Western Year: AD 1379 · Authority Person Id: Ming Taizu (太祖)
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0140

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 1370
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:127:s0124
Source Date: Text: 十二年十二月 · Western Year: AD 1379
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0137, mingshi:127:s0140
Source Date: Text: 十年復拜右丞相 · Western Year: AD 1377
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0134
Source Date: Text: 太祖渡江 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1355 · End: AD 1356
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:127:s0117
Source Date: Text: 洪武元年 · Western Year: AD 1368
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0121

Family

Immediate source-linked family. Drag to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom, and select a person to open their record.

Child of Mother of Wang Guangyang (汪廣洋母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: clerk of the marshal's headquarters / 元帥府令史 · Action: appointed
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0117
Label: controller of the Jiangnan Branch Secretariat / 江南行省提控 · Action: appointed
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0117
Label: Jiangxi Pacification Commissioner / 江西參政 · Action: appointed
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0120
Label: Left Censor-in-Chief / 左御史大夫 · Action: appointed
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0133
Label: Left Vice Director / 左丞 · Action: appointed
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0124
Label: Right Chancellor / 右丞相 · Action: appointed
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0132
Label: Vice Commissioner of the Secretariat / 中書省參政 · Action: appointed
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0122
Label: Right Chancellor / 右丞相 · Action: reappointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十年 · Western Year: AD 1377
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0134
Title: Baron of Loyal Diligence / 忠勤伯 · Action: enfeoffed
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0130
Status: exile · Action: sent-to · Place: Guangnan / 廣南
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0139
Status: exile · Action: sent-to · Place: Hainan / 海南
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0128

Places and affiliations

Polity: Ming / 明 · Relation: served
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0121, mingshi:127:s0143
Place: Gaoyou / 高郵
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0116
Place: Taiping / 太平 · Relation: sojourned-in
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0116

Learning and skills

Skill: poetry / 歌詩 · Level: adept
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0141
Skill: seal and clerical script / 篆隸 · Level: skilled
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0141

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: defendant · Action: executed-for-concealment-and-favoritism · Other Person Id: Ming Taizu (太祖)
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0137, mingshi:127:s0138, mingshi:127:s0139, mingshi:127:s0140

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: could not expose treachery or keep calamity away · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0149
Assessment: mild and self-restrained; ruined by inability to leave wicked colleagues · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0142