Wang Lin (王璘) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Lin as a ruler. This record brings together 4 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 Lin	王璘	Wang Lin
Given	Lin	璘	Lín
Alternate	Lin	鏻	Lín
Personal name	Wang Lin	王璘	Wáng Lín
Changed or taboo avoidance	Yanjun	延鈞	Yánjūn

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:071:s0050

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天福元年丙申 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 936 · Manner: killed · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: Yunli Tu / 運歷圖
Textual variant · xinwudaishi:071:s0066
Date Context: Source Date: Text: 清泰二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 935 · Manner: killed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:071:s0065, xinwudaishi:071:s0066

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天成元年歲在丙戌 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 926
Explicit · xinwudaishi:071:s0065
Source Date: Text: 天福元年丙申 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 936
Textual variant · xinwudaishi:071:s0066
Source Date: Text: 清泰二年乙未 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 935
Explicit · xinwudaishi:071:s0065, xinwudaishi:071:s0066

Career and standing

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天成元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 926 · Manner: killed-predecessor-and-established-himself
Explicit · xinwudaishi:071:s0065

Places and affiliations

Label: Min / 閩 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · xinwudaishi:071:s0050, xinwudaishi:071:s0065

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: actor · Action: changed-era-to-Yonghe · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 清泰二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 935
Explicit · xinwudaishi:071:s0066
Kind: political · Role: actor · Action: killed · Other Person Id: Wang Yanhan (王延翰) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天成元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 926
Explicit · xinwudaishi:071:s0065

Source notes

Field: reign-length · Statement: Old History 12 years; Jiuguo Zhi 11; Min Wang Liezhuan and Jinian Tongpu 10 · Preferred: 10 years
Explicit · xinwudaishi:071:s0062, xinwudaishi:071:s0063, xinwudaishi:071:s0064, xinwudaishi:071:s0065
Field: personal-name-character · Statement: Yunli Tu writes 鏻 for 璘 · Witness: Yunli Tu / 運歷圖
Explicit · xinwudaishi:071:s0066
From: Yanjun / 延鈞 · To: Lin / 璘
Explicit · xinwudaishi:071:s0062

References in the histories

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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 71Volume 71: Timeline for the Hereditary Houses of the Ten Kingdoms · 4 passages

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王氏世次，曰潮、曰審知、曰延翰、曰璘、曰昶、曰曦、曰延政，凡七主。 The Wang clan succession runs: Chao, Shenzhi, Yanhan, Lin, Chang, Xi, and Yanzheng—seven rulers in all.

璘本名延鈞，《五代舊史》本傳云在位十二年。 Lin, whose original name was Yanjun: the biography in the Old History of the Five Dynasties says he reigned twelve years.

蓋璘以天成元年殺延翰自立，是歲丙戌，至清泰二年乙未，實十年而卒，與《閩王列傳》合，而《舊史》、《九國志》皆繆也。 Lin killed Yanhan and established himself in the first year of Tiancheng (the bingxu year) and died in the second year of Qingtai (the yimao year)—ten years in all, which agrees with the Min Wang Liezhuan; the Old History and the Jiuguo Zhi are mistaken.

璘以清泰二年改元永和，是歲見殺，而《舊史》、《九國志》、《運歷圖》皆無永和之號，又《運歷圖》書鏻見殺在天福元年丙申者，皆繆也。 Lin changed the era name to Yonghe in the second year of Qingtai and was killed that same year; yet the Old History, the Jiuguo Zhi, and the Yunli Tu all omit the Yonghe era name, and the Yunli Tu's claim that Lin was killed in the first year of Tianfu (the bingshen year) is likewise mistaken.