Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and Statesman

Wang Jian 王儉

Attested AD 479

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wang Jian was an official and Statesman.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 479 太祖卽位
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 43, passages 23, 25

Career and standing

Vice Premier 僕射
Held
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 43, passage 25

Places and affiliations

Polity Southern Qi 齊 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 43, passage 25

Works and attributed material

Memorial · Author · With Jiang Xiao (江斆) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 43, passages 25-29

Events and relationships

Argued Xiao should return to his birth family
Political · Memorialist
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 43, passages 25, 28-29

References in the histories

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 43Volume 43 Biographies 24: Jiang Xiao, He Changyu, Xie Yao, Wang Siyuan · 1 passage

於是僕射王儉啓：「禮無後小宗之文，近世緣情，皆由父祖之命，未有旣孤之後，出繼宗族也。 Thereupon Wang Jian, Vice Premier of the Left, memorialized: "The rites provide no precedent for adopting an heir into a lesser lineage; in recent practice such arrangements have followed affection and always rested on a father's or grandfather's command—never on leaving one's own clan after one is already orphaned.