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Overview The translated histories identify Wang Hong as an official. This record brings together 9 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 Hong
王閎
Wang Hong
Given
Hong
閎
Hong
Surname
Wang
王
Wang
Identity
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Book of Han, Chapter 105 Volume 93: Flatterers · 9 passages
上以王氏亡在位者，遂用舊恩親近去疾，復進其弟閎為中常侍，閎妻父蕭咸，前將軍望之子也，久為郡守，病免，為中郎將。
Seeing no Wang in power, Ai favored Quji out of old affection and promoted his brother Wang Hong to regular palace attendant; Hong's father-in-law Xiao Xian—Xiao Wangzhi's son—had been a long-serving governor, left office for illness, and now served as general of the household.
閎為賢弟駙馬都尉寬信求咸女為婦，咸惶恐不敢當，私謂閎曰：「董公為大司馬，冊文言『允執其中』，此乃堯禪舜之文，非三公故事，長老見者，莫不心懼。
Wang Hong asked Xiao Xian for his daughter as wife for Dong Kuanxin; Xiao Xian panicked and whispered back, "The grand marshal's patent cited 'hold the mean'—words from the Yao-Shun abdication, not a normal appointment for one of the three excellencies. Elders who read it were inwardly afraid.
閎性有知略，聞咸言，心亦悟，乃還報恭，深達咸自謙薄之意。
Wang Hong took the point, went back to Dong Gong, and relayed Xiao Xian's polite refusal in full.
後上置酒麒麟殿，賢父子親屬宴飲，王閎兄弟侍中、中常侍皆在側。
Later Ai held a banquet in the Qilin Hall for the Dong clan; Wang Hong and his brothers, on duty as attendants, flanked the party.
閎進曰：「天下乃高皇帝天下，非陛下之有也。
Wang Hong stepped in: "The empire belongs to Gaozu's line, not to Your Majesty alone to give away.
於是遣閎出，後不得復侍宴。
He sent Wang Hong away and never again let him join the drinking parties.
而王閎王莽時為牧守，所居見紀，莽敗乃去官。
Wang Hong became a provincial governor under Mang and left a good record; he quit when Mang fell.
世祖下詔曰：「武王克殷，表商容之閭，閎修善謹敕，兵起，吏民獨不爭其頭首。
Emperor Guangwu decreed: "King Wu of Zhou honored Shang Rong's lane after conquering Shang; Wang Hong lived prudently and well, so that when rebellion broke out no mob tried to kill him for sport.
今以閎子補吏。」
Let his son be given an official post."