Wang Pu (王溥) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Pu as a general, historian, official, and scholar. This record brings together 7 passages from 6 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wang Pu	王溥	Wang Pu
Alternate	Wang Pu	王溥	Wang Pu
Personal	Wang Pu	王溥
Personal name	Wang Pu	王溥	Wáng Pǔ

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:011:s0119, xinwudaishi:020:s0006
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:012:s0144

Roles

General
Historian
Official
Scholar
Statesman
Writer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 是時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 954 · End: AD 959
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:020:s0006
Source Date: Text: 显德六年六月 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:012:s0144
Source Date: Text: 顯德二年 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:115:s0071
Source Date: Text: 顯德元年正月 · Western Year: AD 954
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:011:s0119
Source Date: Text: 顯德六年 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:119:s0090, jiuwudaishi:120:s0047

Family

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Child of Father of Wang Pu
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Career and standing

Label: Participant in the Grand Council / 參知樞密院事 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:119:s0090
Label: Vice Director and Associate Grand Councilor / 中書侍郎、同中書門下平章事 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:011:s0119
Label: Duanming Hall academician and vice minister of revenue / 端明殿學士、戶部侍郎 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:011:s0119
Description: received wine and imperial praise for choosing the successful commander / 因擇帥有功受賜酒與褒語 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:115:s0072

Places and affiliations

Polity: Later Zhou / 周 · Relation: served
Explicit · xinwudaishi:020:s0006

Works and attributed material

Work: lamentation text / 哀冊文 · Relation: author
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:119:s0109
Description: recommended Xiang Gong as commander for the Qin-Feng campaign / 薦向拱為秦鳳之帥 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:115:s0071

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 115Volume 115 Book of Later Zhou 17: Shizong Annals 2 · 1 passage

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〈（《東都事略·王溥傳》：世宗將討秦、鳳，溥薦向拱，遂平之。 (Dongdu Shilüe, biography of Wang Pu: When Shizong prepared to attack Qin and Feng, Pu recommended Xiang Gong, and the region was pacified.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 119Volume 119 Book of Later Zhou 21: Shizong Annals 6 · 2 passages

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己丑，宰臣範質、王溥並參知樞密院事。 On jichou, grand councilors Fan Zhi and Wang Pu were both made participants in the Grand Council.

宰臣魏仁浦撰謚冊文，王溥撰哀冊文雲。 Grand Councilor Wei Renpu composed the posthumous inscription and Wang Pu the lamentation text.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 120Volume 120 Book of Later Zhou 22: Emperor Gong Annals · 1 passage

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門下侍郎兼禮部尚書、同平章事、監修國史、參知樞密院事王溥加右僕射，進封開國公； Wang Pu, vice director of the Secretariat and grand councilor, was made right vice director of the Department of State Affairs and Duke Who Opens the State;

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 11Volume 11 Later Zhou Annals 2: Taizu · 1 passage

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壬辰，端明殿學士、戶部侍郎王溥為中書侍郎、同中書門下平章事，王仁鎬罷。 On renchen day, Duanming Hall academician and vice minister of revenue Wang Pu became vice director of the Secretariat and associate chancellor; Wang Renhao was dismissed.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 12Volume 12 Later Zhou Annals 3: Shizong, Emperor Gong · 1 passage

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己丑，范质、王溥参知枢密院事，魏仁浦同中书门下平章事。 On jichou Fan Zhi and Wang Pu joined Privy Council affairs, and Wei Renpu became associate grand councilor.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 20Volume 20: Shizong of Later Zhou's Family · 1 passage

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是時，王溥、汪晏、王彥超、韓令坤等同時將相，皆有父在洛陽，與守禮朝夕往來，惟意所為，洛陽人多畏避之，號「十阿父。」 At the time Wang Pu, Wang Yan, Wang Yanchao, Han Lingkun, and others were serving together as generals and chief ministers. Each had a father living in Luoyang who kept company with Shouli day and night and did as they pleased. The people of Luoyang mostly feared and avoided them, calling them the "Ten Foster Fathers."