Wang Jinrao (王敬蕘)

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Jinrao as an administrator, general, and military officer. This record brings together 8 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 Jinrao	王敬蕘	Wang Jingrao
Given	Jinrao	敬蕘	Jingrao
Surname	Wang	王	Wang
Personal name	Wang Jinrao	王敬蕘	Wang Jingrao

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:020:s0067

Roles

Administrator
General
Military Officer

Life and dates

Death

Place: his mansion / 其第 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平元年八月 · Western Year: AD 907
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0080

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 中和初 · Western Year: AD 881
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:020:s0069
Source Date: Text: 乾寧二年 · Western Year: AD 895
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:020:s0074
Source Date: Text: 唐乾符初 · Western Year: AD 874
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:020:s0068
Source Date: Text: 開平元年八月 · Western Year: AD 907
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:020:s0080

Career and standing

Label: Wuning military commissioner / 武寧軍節度使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0077
Label: prefecture commander of horse and foot / 都知兵馬使 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 唐乾符初 · Western Year: AD 874
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0068
Status: retirement · Action: retired-for-illness · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平元年八月 · Western Year: AD 907
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0080

Places and affiliations

Polity Name: Later Liang · Relation: served-or-associated
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:020:s0067
Place: Ruyin in Yingzhou / 潁州汝陰
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0067

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: worthy of praise for aiding the rising dynasty · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0082
Kind: physical-description · Statement: towering, very strong; used solid-iron spear over thirty jin
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0081

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 20Volume 20 Book of Later Liang 20: Biographies 10: Xie Tong, Si Maye, Liu Han, Wang Jinrao, Gao Shao, Ma Sixun, Zhang Cunjin, Kou Yanqing · 8 passages

Open chapter

王敬蕘，潁州汝陰人，世為郡武吏。 Wang Jinrao of Ruyin in Yingzhou came from a line of county military officers.

唐乾符初，敬蕘為本州都知兵馬使。 Early in Qianfu he became the prefecture's commander of horse and foot.

中和初，寇難益熾，郡守庸怯，不能自固，敬蕘遂代之監郡，俄真拜刺史，加檢校右散騎常侍。 Early in Zhonghe, as raids grew fiercer and the timid prefect could not hold the city, Jinrao took charge of the circuit, was soon confirmed as prefect, and given acting rank as Right Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary.

時州境荒饉，大寇繼至，黃巢數十萬眾寨於州南，敬蕘極力抗禦，逾旬而退。 Famine stalked the circuit while great armies came one after another; hundreds of thousands of Huang Chao's men camped south of the city, and Jinrao fought them off until they withdrew after more than ten days.

蔡賊復遣將刁君務以萬眾來逼，敬蕘列陣當之，身先馳突，殺敵甚多，由是竟全郡壘，遠近歸附。 The Cai rebels sent Diao Junwu with ten thousand men; Jinrao formed his line, led the charge himself, and killed a great many; the walls held, and men near and far came to his banner.

及淮人不恭，太祖屢以軍南渡，路由州境，敬蕘悉心供億，太祖甚嘉之。 Each time the Founder crossed the Huai with an army and passed through Ying, Jinrao supplied his needs without stint, and the Founder took great notice.

時雨雪連旬，軍士凍餒，敬蕘自淮燎薪，相屬於道，郡中設糜糗餅餌以待之，全活者甚眾，由是表知武寧軍節度、徐宿觀察留後。 Snow fell ten days running; the troops were freezing and starving; Jinrao sent fuel from the Huai along the road and set out gruel and cakes in the city; many lived because of it, and he was memorialized acting commissioner of Wuning and regent of Xuzhou and Suzhou.

敬蕘魁傑沈勇，多力善戰，所用槍矢，皆以純鐵鍛就，槍重三十餘斤，摧鋒突陣，率以此勝。 Jinrao was a towering man, deep and brave; his spears and arrows were forged from solid iron, his spear alone weighed more than thirty pounds, and he broke enemy lines by sheer weight of steel.