Sui and Tang · Official

Wang Ning 王凝

Attested AD 873 - AD 874

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wang Ning was an official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 873 to AD 874 咸通末
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 253

Career and standing

Observation Commissioner of Xuan and She 宣歙觀察使
Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 254
Vice Director of Rites 禮部侍郎
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 253
Entered
Demoted · At Shangzhou 商州
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 253

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 253
At Shangzhou 商州 · Relation Exiled to
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 253

Events and relationships

Demoted to Shangzhou
Legal · Offender · At Shangzhou 商州
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 253
Recruited Tu to staff
Career · Patron · With Sikong Tu (司空圖)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 254
Relation Patron of · Person Sikong Tu (司空圖)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passages 253-254

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 253

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 194Volume 194 Biographies 119: Outstanding Conduct · 3 passages

圖，咸通末擢進士，禮部侍郎王凝特所獎待，俄而凝坐法貶商州，圖感知己，往從之。 Tu passed the jinshi at the end of Xiantong; Vice Director of Rites Wang Ning especially prized him; soon Ning was demoted to Shangzhou for a legal offense and Tu, moved by gratitude, went to follow him.

凝起拜宣歙觀察使，乃辟置幕府。 When Ning was raised and appointed observation commissioner of Xuan and She, he recruited Tu to his staff.

召為殿中侍御史，不忍去凝府，臺劾，左遷光祿寺主簿，分司東都。 He was summoned as attending censor but could not bear to leave Ning's headquarters; the censorate impeached him and he was demoted to master of records in the Court of Imperial Entertainments, serving at the eastern capital.