Wang Lun (王倫) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Lun as an envoy and official. 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 Lun	王倫	Wang Lun
Given	Lun	倫	Lun
Personal name	Wang Lun	王倫	Wang Lun

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · songshi:359:s0184

Roles

Envoy
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 八年 · Western Year: AD 1138
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:359:s0184

Events and relationships

Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: returned-from-Jin · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年 · Western Year: AD 1138
Explicit · songshi:359:s0184, songshi:359:s0185

References in the histories

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History of Song, Chapter 359Volume 359 Biographies 118: Li Gang 2 · 4 passages

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八年，王倫使北還，綱聞之，上疏曰： In the eighth year Wang Lun returned from his northern mission. When Li Gang heard of it, he submitted a memorial, saying:

臣竊見朝廷遣王倫使金國，奉迎梓宮。 I understand the court dispatched Wang Lun as envoy to the Jin state to escort the imperial coffins home.

今倫之歸，與金使偕來，乃以「詔諭江南」為名，不著國號而曰「江南」，不雲「通問」而曰「詔諭」，此何禮也？ Now that Lun has returned alongside Jin envoys under the title "Imperial Edict Instructing Jiangnan" — using not our state's name but "Jiangnan," and not "diplomatic exchange" but "imperial edict instructing" — what kind of protocol is this?

今倫使事，初以奉迎梓宮為指，而金使之來，乃以詔諭江南為名。 Lun's mission was initially framed as escorting the coffins home, yet the Jin envoys who came did so under the title of "imperial edict instructing Jiangnan."