Wang Jizhong (王繼忠)

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Jizhong as a diplomat, general, military officer, and official. This record brings together 19 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wang Jizhong	王繼忠	Wáng Jìzhōng
Given name	Jizhong	繼忠
Title	Prince of Chu	楚王
Title	prince of Langye commandery	瑯邪郡王
Surname	Wang	王
Personal name	Wang Jizhong	王繼忠	Wáng Jìzhōng
Personal name	Wang Jizhong	王繼忠	Wang Jizhong
Personal	Wang Jizhong	王繼忠	Wang Jizhong

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:014:s0077
Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0026, liaoshi:081:s0048, liaoshi:085:s0052, liaoshi:088:s0029

Roles

Diplomat
General
Military Officer
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太平3年 · Reign Id: liao-taiping · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1023
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0047

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 二十一年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 21 · Western Year: AD 1003
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:085:s0052
Source Date: Text: 統和21年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 21 · Western Year: AD 1003
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:014:s0077
Source Date: Text: 統和21年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 21 · Western Year: AD 1003
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0028
Source Date: Text: 統和22年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 22 · Western Year: AD 1004
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:014:s0129, liaoshi:014:s0130
Source Date: Text: 統和22年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 22 · Western Year: AD 1004
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0032
Source Date: Text: 太平3年 · Reign Id: liao-taiping · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1023
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0047
Source Date: Text: 開泰 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1012 · End: AD 1021
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:088:s0029
Source Date: Text: 開泰5年 · Western Year: AD 1016
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0040
Source Date: Text: 開泰6年 · Western Year: AD 1017
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0041

Family

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Spouse of Wife of Wang Jizhong (康默記族女)
Kinship Term: gave in marriage / 女之 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: formed
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: formed
Parent of Huaiyu (懷玉)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Kinship Role: household slaves · Count: 0 · Negated: true
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0039

Career and standing

Label: acting defender of the Central Capital / 攝中京留守 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0039
Label: commissioner of the household bureau / 戶部使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0029
Label: commissioner / 樞密使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0046
Label: left martial guard general / 左武衛上將軍 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0039
Label: overall commander of the Han palace encampment / 漢人行宮都部署 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 開泰5年 · Western Year: AD 1016
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0040
Label: chief adjutant of the Palace Front / 殿前都虞候 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0027
Label: prefect of Yanzhou / 鄆州刺史 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0027
Label: Southern Chancellery commissioner / 南院樞密使 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0071
Title: Prince of Chu / 楚王 · Action: advanced · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 開泰6年 · Western Year: AD 1017
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0041
Title: prince of Langye commandery / 瑯邪郡王 · Action: enfeoffed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 開泰5年 · Western Year: AD 1016
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0040
Label: imperial clan surname / 國姓 · Action: granted · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 開泰6年 · Western Year: AD 1017
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0041
Status: retirement · Action: entered · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 太平3年 · Reign Id: liao-taiping · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1023
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0047
Status: captivity · Action: entered
Explicit · liaoshi:014:s0077, liaoshi:081:s0028

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0029
Place: unknown commandery / 不知何郡 · Uncertain: true
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0026
Place: Song / 宋 · Relation: served-in
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0027

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: addressee · Other Person Id: Song ruler (宋主) · Quoted: true
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0032, liaoshi:081:s0033, liaoshi:081:s0034, liaoshi:081:s0035, liaoshi:081:s0036, liaoshi:081:s0037
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Yelü Longxu (耶律隆緒) · Quoted: true
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0042, liaoshi:081:s0043

Events and relationships

Kind: diplomatic · Role: recipient · Action: accepted-Song-gifts-with-imperial-permission · Other Person Id: Yelü Longxu (耶律隆緒) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和21年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 21 · Western Year: AD 1003
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0031
Kind: military · Role: deputy-commander · Action: campaigned-against-Goryeo · Other Person Id: Xiao Hezhuo (蕭合卓) · Place: Xinghua garrison / 興化鎮 · Outcome: failed to take after more than a month
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0045
Kind: diplomatic · Role: negotiator · Action: met-Song-envoy-and-authorized-peace-talks · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和22年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 22 · Western Year: AD 1004
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0038
Kind: diplomatic · Role: intermediary · Action: peace-talks
Explicit · liaoshi:014:s0129, liaoshi:014:s0130
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: posted-to-Wangdu-and-captured · Place: Wangdu in Ding prefecture / 定之望都 · Other Person Id: Yelü Nugua (耶律奴瓜) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和21年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 21 · Western Year: AD 1003
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0028

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: clear-sighted in judging men · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Yelü Longxu (耶律隆緒)
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0046
Assessment: failed to die for his state; though he brokered peace and showed discernment, little to esteem · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0085
Assessment: Hezhuo has clerical talent but lacks grasp of the larger picture; Xiao Dilie has both talent and character · Provenance: Mode: speech · Speaker Person Id: Wang Jizhong (王繼忠)
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0042, liaoshi:081:s0043
Assessment: recognized as worthy/talented by the empress dowager · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: empress dowager (太后)
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0029
Kind: character · Statement: threw himself into duties and spared no effort
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0030
Item: bow and arrows, riding crop, and peace memorial / 弧矢、鞭策及求和劄子 · Relation: received · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和22年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 22 · Western Year: AD 1004
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0032
Item: thirty palace households / 宮戶三十 · Relation: bestowed
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0039

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · liaoshi:014:s0077, liaoshi:014:s0129, liaoshi:014:s0130

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 14Volume 14 Annals 14: Shengzong 5 · 3 passages

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是月，耶律奴瓜、蕭撻凜獲宋將王繼忠於望都。 That month Yelü Nugua and Xiao Talin captured Song general Wang Jizhong at Wangdu.

丁卯，南院大王善補奏宋遣人遺王繼忠弓矢，密請求和。 On dingmao day Southern Court Great King Shanbu reported that Song had sent bows and arrows to Wang Jizhong and secretly requested peace.

詔繼忠與使會，許和。 An edict ordered Wang Jizhong to meet the envoy, and peace was granted.

History of Liao, Chapter 81Volume 81 Biographies 11: Yelu Shilu, Wang Jizhong, Xiao Xiaozhong, Chen Zhaogun, Xiao Hezhuo · 14 passages

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王繼忠蕭孝忠陳昭袞蕭合卓 Wang Jizhong, Xiao Xiaozhong, Chen Zhaogun, and Xiao Hezhuo

王繼忠，不知何郡人。 Wang Jizhong was a man of unknown native commandery.

統和二十一年，宋遣繼忠屯定之望都，以輕騎覘我軍，遇南府宰相耶律奴瓜等，獲之。 In the twenty-first year of Tonghe, Song posted Jizhong at Wangdu in Ding prefecture; he led light cavalry to scout our forces, met the Southern Chancellery chancellor Yelü Nugua and others, and was taken prisoner.

繼忠亦自激昂，事必盡力。 Jizhong likewise threw himself into his duties and spared no effort in whatever he undertook.

宋以繼忠先朝舊臣，每遣使，必有附賜，聖宗許受之。 Song treated Jizhong as a former minister of the prior dynasty and, whenever it sent envoys, always included gifts for him; Emperor Shengzong allowed him to accept them.

二十二年，宋使來聘，遺繼忠弧矢、鞭策及求和劄子，有曰：「自臨大位，愛養黎元。 In the twenty-second year a Song envoy arrived on a diplomatic mission and sent Jizhong a bow and arrows, a riding crop, and a memorial seeking peace, which read: "Since I took the throne, I have cherished and nurtured the people.

詔繼忠與宋使相見，仍許講和。 The court ordered Jizhong to meet the Song envoy and authorized peace talks.

以繼忠家無奴隸，賜宮戶三十，加左武衛上將軍，攝中京留守。 Because Jizhong's household had no servants, he was granted thirty palace households; he was promoted to left martial guard general and made acting defender of the Central Capital.

開泰五年，為漢人行宮都部署，封瑯邪郡王。 In the fifth year of Kai Tai he was made overall commander of the Han palace encampment and enfeoffed as prince of Langye commandery.

六年，進楚王，賜國姓。 In the sixth year he was advanced to Prince of Chu and granted the imperial clan surname.

上嘗燕飲，議以蕭合卓為北院樞密使，繼忠曰：「合卓雖有刀筆才，暗於大體。 At a banquet the emperor once discussed appointing Xiao Hezhuo commissioner of the Northern Chancellery; Jizhong said, "Hezhuo may have a gift for paperwork, but he lacks grasp of the larger picture.

及遣合卓伐高麗，繼忠為行軍副部署，攻興化鎮，月餘不下。 When Hezhuo was dispatched against Goryeo, Jizhong served as deputy campaign commander; they attacked Xinghua garrison for more than a month without capturing it.

南院樞密使王繼忠侍宴，又譏其短。 at a banquet the Southern Chancellery commissioner Wang Jizhong again mocked his shortcomings.

繼忠既不能死國，雖通南北之和，有知人之鑒，奚足尚哉！ Jizhong, having failed to die for his state, may have brokered peace between north and south and shown discernment in judging men, but what is there to esteem in that!

History of Liao, Chapter 85Volume 85 Biographies 15: Xiao Talin, Xiao Guanyinnu, Yelu Tizi, Yelu Xieli, Yelu Nugua, Xiao Liu, Gao Xun, Xi Heshuonu, Xiao Taliege, Yelu Sahe · 1 passage

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二十一年，復伐宋，擒其將王繼忠於望都，俘殺甚眾，以功加同政事門下平章事。 In the twenty-first year he again campaigned against Song, captured the Song general Wang Jizhong at Wangdu, and killed or took a great multitude of prisoners; for this he was made Associate Director of the Directorate of Affairs.

History of Liao, Chapter 88Volume 88 Biographies 18: Xiao Dilie, Yelu Pennu, Xiao Paiya, Yelu Zizhong, Yelu Yaozhi, Yelu Honggu, Gao Zheng, Yelu Delu, Da Kangyi · 1 passage

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漢人行宮都部署王繼忠薦其材可為樞密使，帝疑其黨而止。 Wang Jizhong, Chief Deployment Officer of the Han Palace Establishment, recommended him as fit for Privy Councilor, but the emperor suspected clique-building and held back.