Wang Guizhi (王珪之)

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Guizhi as a historian, military officer, official, and scholar. This record brings together 3 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wang Guizhi	王珪之	Wang Guizhi
Title	Colonel of the Long River	長水校尉	Chángshuǐ xiàowèi
Given	Guizhi	珪之	Guīzhī
Surname	Wang	王	Wáng
Personal name	Wang Guizhi	王珪之	Wáng Guīzhī
Personal	Wang Guizhi	王珪之	Wáng Guīzhī

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · nanqishu:010:s0104, nanqishu:016:s0014
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · nanqishu:016:s0299

Roles

Historian
Military Officer
Official
Scholar
Writer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 建元三年 · Western Year: AD 481
Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:010:s0063, nanqishu:010:s0104
Source Date: Text: 王珪之《職儀》 · Western Interval: Start: AD 474 · End: AD 491
Strongly inferred · nanqishu:016:s0299
Source Date: Text: 長水校尉王珪之職儀 · Western Interval: Start: AD 420 · End: AD 502
Strongly inferred · nanqishu:016:s0014

Career and standing

Label: Director of the Bureau of Sacrifices / 祠部郎中 · Action: held
Explicit · nanqishu:010:s0104

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liu-song · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · nanqishu:016:s0299

Works and attributed material

Work: Protocol of Offices / 職儀 · Relation: author
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Work: Protocols of Office / 職儀 · Relation: author
Explicit · nanqishu:016:s0014
Kind: treatise-claim · Role: author · Work: Protocol of Offices / 職儀 · Statement: Inspector military-overseeership began under Emperor Guangwu · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Wang Guizhi (王珪之) · Source Work: Protocol of Offices / 職儀
Explicit · nanqishu:016:s0299

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: mistaken dating of inspector military-overseeership origin · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · nanqishu:016:s0299

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · nanqishu:016:s0014

References in the histories

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Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 10Volume 10 Treatises 2: Rituals 1 · 1 passage

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祠部郎中王珪之議，謂「喪以閏施，功衰以下小祥值閏，則略而不言。 Wang Guizhi of the sacrifices bureau argued: "Where mourning reckons leap months, for merit-mourning and lower grades a leap-month minor felicity is simply not named.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 16Volume 16 Treatises 8: Official Posts · 2 passages

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〈諸臺府郎令史職吏以下，具見長水校尉王珪之《職儀》。〉〈For clerks, recorders, and functionaries of the various bureaus and offices, see Colonel of the Long River Wang Guizhi's Protocols of Office.〉

魏、晉世州牧隆重，刺史任重者爲使持節都督，輕者爲持節督，起漢從帝時，御史中丞馮赦討九江賊，督揚、徐二州軍事，而何、徐《宋志》云起魏武遣諸州將督軍，王珪之《職儀》云起光武，竝非也。 Under Wei and Jin, provincial governors were honored posts; inspectors with heavy responsibility became commissioners bearing the staff of authority and military overseers, lighter ones commissioners bearing the staff and supervisors. The office began under Emperor Shun of Han, when Censor-in-chief Feng She campaigned against Jiujiang bandits and directed Yang and Xu military affairs; but He and Xu's Song Treatise dates it to Cao Cao's dispatch of provincial generals to oversee troops, and Wang Guizhi's Protocol of Offices dates it to Emperor Guangwu—all are mistaken.