Wang Sengqian 王僧虔

Family

• Parent of Son of Wang Sengqian (王僧虔子)
  son 子 · paternal line
  father 父 · paternal line
  Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 184, 225, 231

• Kinship Role sons and younger kinsmen · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 206, 217-218

Places and affiliations

• AD 420 to AD 479 宋
  Polity Id liu-song · Relation Served
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 184, 215
• Organization Wang household/line 王家門 · Relation Member of
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 217

Learning and skills

• said he himself never studied and had nothing fit to pass on as teaching
  Negated true
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 204

Works and attributed material

• letter admonishing his son 誡子書
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 184, 231
• Letter · Author · With Son of Wang Sengqian (王僧虔子) · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 184-231

Events and relationships

• Compared talk to archery and listed the Jingzhou Eight Fascicles, Four Roots, and Sound Has No Grief or Joy as debaters' staples
  Comparison · Speaker
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 193-194
• Ranked among men for several decades
  AD 420 to AD 479 宋 · Career · Subject
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 215
• Still lashed those with will, hoping one in ten thousand might achieve something before his death
  Didactic · Speaker
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 228
• Wrote a letter of warning to his son
  Didactic · Author · With Son of Wang Sengqian (王僧虔子)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 184, 224, 231

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment lacking in virtue and plain living · Mode self-report Speaker Wang Sengqian (王僧虔)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 215

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 184
• regretted his own unlearned course and meant the overturned cart ahead to warn the cart behind
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 224
• said he cannot shelter his sons; each must strive on his own
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 218
• said that after he is gone ghosts will not know his descendants' ruin or renown
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 216, 230