Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Administrator

Wang Ne 訥

Attested AD 300 - AD 339

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wang Ne was an administrator.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Wang Wenkai	王文開

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 300 to AD 339 新淦令
Strongly inferred · Book of Jin 93, passage 188

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Wang You (佑)
father of Ne 父 · paternal line
Strongly inferred · Book of Jin 93, passages 187-188
Parent of Wang Meng (王濛)
father 父 · paternal line
Directly stated · Book of Jin 93, passage 188

References in the histories

Book of Jin, Chapter 93Volume 93 Biographies 63: Imperial Affines · 2 passages

父訥，新淦令。 His father Wang Ne was magistrate of Xingan.

美姿容，嘗覽鏡自照，稱其父字曰：「王文開生如此兒邪！」 Handsome enough to admire himself in the mirror, he would joke using his father’s style name, ‘Could Wang Wenkai really have fathered a son like this?’