Overview
Wang Hua was an official.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Death
AD 752 天寶十一載
Beaten to death by edict
Attested activity
AD 749 to AD 752 天寶
AD 752 天寶十一載
Places and affiliations
- Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Works and attributed material
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New Book of Tang, Chapter 134Volume 134 Biographies 59: Yuwen, Wei, Yang, Wang · 14 passages
鉷事嫡母孝，而與弟銲友愛。
Wang Hong was filial toward his principal mother and deeply affectionate with his younger brother Hua.
銲疾鉷宦達，常忿慢不弟，鉷終不異情。
Hua resented his brother's rise and often treated him with anger and disrespect, failing in brotherly duty — yet Hong's affection for him never changed.
銲歷戶部郎中。
Hua rose to serve as director in the Ministry of Revenue.
鉷與銲召術士語不軌，術士驚，引去。
Wang Hong and his brother Hua summoned a diviner and spoke of treasonous designs; the man was frightened and left.
銲與邢縡善，縡，鴻臚少卿璹子也，以功名相期，鉷因銲亦交縡。
Hua was close to Xing Yi, the son of vice minister of guest affairs Shuo; the two expected great things of each other, and through Hua, Hong came to know Yi as well.
十一載四月，縡與銲謀引右龍武軍萬騎燒都門、誅執政作難。
In the fourth month of Tianbao year 11, Yi and Hua plotted to summon the Right Dragon Martial Army's ten-thousand cavalry to burn the capital gate, kill the chief ministers, and launch a revolt.
鉷意銲與縡連，故緩其事，但督兩縣尉捕賊。
Hong thought Hua was implicated with Yi, so he dragged his feet and only pressed the assistant magistrates of the two counties to catch the rebels.
賈季鄰逢銲於路，銲謂曰：「我與縡有舊，今反，恐妄相引，君勿受。」
Jia Jilin met Hua on the road. Hua told him: "Yi and I go back a long way. Now that he has rebelled, he may falsely drag me in — do not believe it."
國忠奏鉷與謀，帝不信，林甫亦為鉷言，故帝原銲不問。
Guozhong reported that Hong had joined the plot, but the emperor refused to believe it. Li Linfu spoke up for Hong as well, so the emperor pardoned Hua and dropped the matter.
然欲鉷請銲罪，使國忠諷之，鉷良久曰：「弟為先人所愛，義不欲舍而謀存。」
The emperor still wanted Hong to accuse Hua and had Guozhong drop hints. After a long pause Hong said: "My younger brother was beloved by our ancestors; I cannot in conscience abandon him and plot to save myself."
俄而銲至，國忠問曰：「大夫與否？」
Hua was brought in shortly afterward, and Guozhong asked: "Was the chief censor part of it or not?"
未及應，侍御史裴冕叱銲曰：「上以大夫故官君五品，君為臣不忠，為弟不誼。
Before Hua could reply, attendant censor Pei Mian shouted at him: "The emperor gave you a fifth-rank post for the chief censor's sake, yet as a subject you are disloyal and as a brother you are faithless.
銲乃曰：「兄不與。」
Hua then said: "My elder brother had no part in it."
獄具，詔銲杖死，鉷賜死三衛廚。
When the case was closed, an edict ordered Hua beaten to death; Hong was granted the privilege of death by strangulation in the Three Guard kitchens.