Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Scholar and Official

Wang Wei 王微

Died AD 453

Passages
17
Chapters
2
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Wei as a calligrapher, diviner, family member, and hermit. This record brings together 17 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Wang Wei 王微 Wang Wei
Courtesy Jingxuan 景玄 Jǐngxuán
Surname Wang 王
Surname Wang 王 Wáng
Personal name Wang Wei 王微 Wang Wei
Personal Wang Wei 王微 Wáng Wēi
Personal name Wang Wei 王微 Wáng Wéi
Given Wei 微
Given Wei 微 Wéi

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Calligrapher
  • Diviner
  • Family Member
  • Hermit
  • Official
  • Painter
  • Physician
  • Scholar
  • Writer

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉三十年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 30 · Western Year: AD 453 · Statement: died forty days after Sengqian at age thirty-nine
    Explicit · songshu:062:s0258, songshu:062:s0259

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 元嘉三十年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 30 · Western Year: AD 453
    Explicit · songshu:062:s0258, songshu:062:s0259
  • Source Date: Text: 元嘉三十年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 30 · Western Year: AD 453
    Explicit event contextual date · songshu:062:s0244, songshu:062:s0258, songshu:062:s0259
  • Source Date: Text: 《宋書·止足傳》 · Western Interval: Start: AD 420 · End: AD 479
    Explicit · liangshu:052:s0014
  • Source Date: Text: 世祖即位 · Western Year: AD 453
    Explicit · songshu:062:s0266
  • Western Interval: Start: AD 424 · End: AD 453 · Source Date: Text: 年十六，州舉秀才，衡陽王義季右軍
    Strongly inferred · songshu:062:s0092
  • Western Interval: Start: AD 424 · End: AD 453 · Source Date: Text: 弟僧謙，亦有才譽，為太子舍人，遇
    Explicit · songshu:062:s0213
  • Western Interval: Start: AD 424 · End: AD 453 · Source Date: Text: 微常住門屋一間，尋書玩古，如此者
    Explicit · songshu:062:s0211
  • Western Interval: Start: AD 424 · End: AD 453 · Source Date: Text: 王微，字景玄，琅邪臨沂人，太保弘
    Explicit · songshu:062:s0089, songshu:062:s0092

Family

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  • Kin of Wang Hong (王弘)
    Kinship Term: brother's son / nephew / 弟子 · Line: paternal · Subject Role: nephew · Object Role: paternal-uncle · Generation Distance: 1
  • Sibling of Elder brother of Wang Wei at Jincheng (王微兄)
    Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger · Subject Role: younger-brother · Object Role: elder-brother
  • Sibling of Sister of Wang Wei (王微姊)
    Kinship Term: elder sister / 姊 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger · Subject Role: younger-brother · Object Role: elder-sister
  • Child of Wang Ru (王孺)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  • Sibling of Wang Sengqian (王僧謙)
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother
  • Kin of Wang Sengchuo (王僧綽)
    Kinship Term: younger cousin / 從弟 · Line: paternal · Subject Role: elder-cousin · Object Role: younger-cousin

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: Libationer of the Minister of Works / 司徒祭酒 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:062:s0093
  • Label: Aide to Right Army under Prince of Hengyang / 衡陽王義季右軍參軍 · Action: declined
    Explicit · songshu:062:s0092
  • Label: Consultation Aide under Prince of Nanping / 南平王鑠右軍諮議參軍 · Action: declined
    Explicit · songshu:062:s0094, songshu:062:s0095
  • Label: Palace Gentleman of the Secretariat / 中書侍郎 · Action: declined
    Explicit · songshu:062:s0096
  • Label: Friend to the Prince of Shixing / 始興王友 · Action: held
    Explicit · songshu:062:s0093
  • Label: Director of the Ministry of Personnel / 吏部郎 · Action: nominated · Authority Person Id: Jiang Zhan (江湛)
    Explicit · songshu:062:s0097
  • Label: Director of the Secretariat / 秘書監 · Action: posthumously-awarded · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 世祖即位 · Western Year: AD 453
    Explicit · songshu:062:s0268
  • Label: posthumous Directorship of the Secretariat / 追贈秘書監 · Action: received
    Explicit · songshu:062:s0268
  • Status: mourning · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉三十年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 30 · Western Year: AD 453
    Explicit · songshu:062:s0255
  • Status: plain-living · Action: held · Label: ease in plain simplicity / 身安隱素
    Explicit · songshu:062:s0266

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

References in the histories

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Book of Liang, Chapter 52Volume 52: The Self-Sufficient · 1 passage
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Book of Song, Chapter 62Volume 62 Biographies 22: Yang Xin, Zhang Fu, Wang Wei · 16 passages
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