Wang Sengqian 王僧虔

Other names

Family

• Kin of Wang Jian (王儉)
  nephew 兄子 · paternal line · Through Brother of Wang Sengqian (王僧虔兄)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 142, 147
• Kin of Wang Min (王珉)
  collateral grandfather 從祖 · paternal line · 2 generations
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 159
• Descendant of Wang Qia (王洽)
  great-grandfather 曾祖 · paternal line · 3 generations · Through Father of Wang Sengqian (王僧虔父), Grandfather of Wang Sengqian (王僧虔祖)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 156
• Sibling of Brother of Wang Sengqian (王僧虔兄)
  brother 兄 · Full siblings
  Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 142
• Child of Father of Wang Sengqian (王僧虔父)
  father 父
  Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 156
• Parent of Wang Zhi (王志)
  father 父
  Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 180
• Parent of Wang Ji (王寂)
  ninth son 第九子
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 178
• Parent of Wang Ci (王慈)
  son 子
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 149

• Kinship Role clan cousins · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 141

Career and standing

• Left Grand Master of the Splendid Hall 左光祿大夫
  AD 482 世祖卽位 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 140
• Merit Equal to the Founding Duke 開府儀同三司
  AD 482 世祖卽位 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 140
• regular attendant, special advancement, and Left Grand Master of the Splendid Hall 侍中、特進、左光祿大夫
  AD 482 世祖卽位 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 144
• regular attendant 侍中
  AD 482 世祖卽位 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 140
• special advancement 特進
  AD 482 世祖卽位 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 144
• Bearer of the Staff and commander of Xiang Province military affairs 持節、都督湘州諸軍事
  AD 479 to AD 482 其年冬 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 138

Places and affiliations

• AD 482 世祖卽位
  Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 140, 143
• AD 420 to AD 479 宋世
  Polity Id liu-song · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 183
• AD 479 to AD 482 其年冬
  At Xiangzhou 湘州 · Relation Posted to
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 138

Learning and skills

• Skill calligraphy 書 · Level renowned
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 154, 177
• Skill star lore 星文 · Level versed
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 149

Works and attributed material

• Rhapsody on Calligraphy 書賦
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 177
• discourse on calligraphy 論書
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 154, 176
• Rhapsody on Calligraphy 書賦
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 177
• AD 420 to AD 479 宋世
  Letter · Author · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 183
• Prediction · Subject · Direct quotation · Mode hearsay
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 141
• Speech · Speaker · With Wang Jian (王儉) · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 142

Events and relationships

• Clan gathering in youth; a guest fortune teller predicted highest office
  Social · Subject
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 141
• Firmly declined the kaifu appointment
  AD 482 世祖卽位 · Political · Subject · With Shizu (世祖)
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 143
• Meant to resign by memorial because of wind illness
  AD 482 世祖卽位 · Political · Subject
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 140
• Saw trouble in the Yuzhang astral field and feared a crisis for Ci
  Scholarly · Observer · With Wang Ci (王慈)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 149
• Would not enter Jian's over scale Hall of the Long Beam
  Domestic · Witness · With Wang Jian (王儉)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 147

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment fated for the highest office among the cousins · Mode hearsay
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 141
• Assessment spare and without desire; did not pursue wealth; the people were at peace · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 139
• afflicted with wind numbness (風疾)
  Illness
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 140

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 140
• the two Weis (二衞) with Zhang Zhi, Suo Jing, Wei Dan, and Zhong Hui were famous earlier; relative merit cannot be ranked
  Field calligraphic-canon
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 162