Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official

Wang Meng 王濛

Attested AD 340 - AD 347

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wang Meng was an official.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Zhongzu	仲祖	Zhongzu

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 340 to AD 347 司徒左長史／仲祖
Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 93, passages 230, 276

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Paternal aunt of Wang Shuang (王爽亡姑)
father 父 · paternal line
daughter 女 · paternal line
Strongly inferred · Book of Jin 93, passage 264
Parent of Wang Yun (王蘊)
father 父 · paternal line
son 子 · paternal line
Directly stated · Book of Jin 93, passage 230

Career and standing

senior clerk on the minister’s left 司徒左長史
Held
Directly stated · Book of Jin 93, passage 230

Places and affiliations

Polity Id eastern-jin · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Jin 93, passage 230

Events and relationships

Relation Commoner friend of · Person Emperor Jianwen (簡文帝)
Directly stated · Book of Jin 93, passage 263

Assessments and attributes

Assessment warm, graceful, and renowned south of the Yangzi · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Jin 93, passage 276

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Jin 93, passage 230

References in the histories

Book of Jin, Chapter 93Volume 93 Biographies 63: Imperial Affines · 3 passages

王蘊，字叔仁，孝武定皇后父，司徒左長史濛之子也。 Wang Yun, courtesy name Shuren, father of Empress Xiaowu Ding, was the son of Wang Meng, senior clerk on the minister’s left.

爽嘗與會稽王道子飲，道子醉呼爽為小子，爽曰：「亡祖長史與簡文皇帝為布衣之交。 Once, drinking with Prince Daozi of Kuaiji, the prince drunk called him ‘boy.’ Wang Shuang replied, ‘My late grandfather was sworn friend to Emperor Jianwen when both were commoners.’

弘理儀形外朗，季野神鑒內融，仲祖溫潤風流，幼道清虛寡欲，皆擅名江表，見重當時，豈惟后族之英華，抑亦搢紳之令望者也。 Du Yi’s looks were open and bright; Chu Pou read men with inward clarity; Wang Meng moved with gentle grace; He Zhun lived spare and detached—all were luminaries south of the Yangzi and pillars of their age, ornaments not only to the imperial in-laws but to the whole gentry.