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Wang Xi 王晞

Wáng Xī

Died AD 581

Passages: 70
Chapters: 4
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Xi as an administrator, courtier, military officer, and official. This record brings together 70 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wang Xi	王晞	Wáng Xī
Alternate name	Milang	彌郎	Milang
Childhood name	Shamini	沙彌	Shamini
Courtesy name	Shulang	叔朗	Shulang
Surname	Wang	王	Wang
Personal name	Wang Xi	王晞
Personal name	Wang Xi	王晞	Wang Xi
Given name	Xi	晞	Xi
Given	Xi	晞	Xī

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Administrator
Courtier
Military Officer
Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Place: Luoyang / 洛陽 · Age: 71 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 隋開皇元年 · Western Year: AD 581
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Age

Age: 71 · Reckoning: sui
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾明元年 · Western Year: AD 560
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Source Date: Text: 乾明元年八月 · Western Year: AD 560
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Source Date: Text: 天保中 · Western Year: AD 550
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Source Date: Text: 孝昭嘗謂王晞 · Western Interval: Start: AD 560 · End: AD 561
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Source Date: Text: 武平初 · Western Year: AD 570
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Source Date: Text: 皇建中 · Western Year: AD 560
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Source Date: Text: 隋開皇元年 · Western Year: AD 581
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Source Date: Text: 魏末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 528 · End: AD 534
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Source Date: Text: 魏永安初 · Western Year: AD 528
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Source Date: Text: 齊天保初 · Western Year: AD 550
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Family

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Child of Wang Yun (王雲)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Lady Cui of Qinghe (清河崔氏)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Sibling of Wang Hui (王暉)
Kinship Term: second elder brother / 第二兄 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Birth Order: 2 · Shared Parentage: full
Spouse of Wife of Wang Xi (王晞妻)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: active
Sibling of Wang Xin (王昕)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full

Kinship Role: sons · Count: 0 · Negated: true
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Kinship Role: elder-brothers · Count: 2
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Career and standing

Label: attendant cavalier / 散騎常侍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾明元年九月 · Western Interval: Start: AD 560 · End: AD 560
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Label: Grand Director of Ceremonies / 大鴻臚 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武平初 · Western Year: AD 570
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Label: Attendant Cavalier / 員外散騎侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 魏永安初 · Western Year: AD 528
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Label: acting administrator of Taiyuan / 行太原郡事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 齊天保初 · Western Year: AD 550
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Label: chief administrator of Bing / 幷州長史 · Action: appointed
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Label: chief marshal / 司馬 · Action: appointed
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Label: companion of Prince of Changshan / 常山王友 · Action: appointed
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Label: concurrent palace attendant (zhongshuzi) / 兼中庶子 · Action: appointed
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Label: Director of the Secretariat / 秘書監 · Action: appointed
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Label: Equal-in-honor grand general / 儀同大將軍 · Action: appointed
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Label: gentleman in ministry of personnel / 吏部郎中 · Action: appointed
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Label: governor of eastern Xuzhou / 東徐州刺史 · Action: appointed
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Label: grand remonstrant of the crown prince / 太子諫議大夫 · Action: appointed
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Label: Grand Tutor of the Crown Prince / 太子太傅 · Action: appointed
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Label: recorder on Dugu Xin opening staff / 開府記室 · Action: appointed
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Label: staff officer of inner and outer offices / 中外府功曹參軍 · Action: appointed
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Label: recorder on Prince of Guangping staff / 廣平王開府功曹史 · Action: offered
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Label: posthumous inspector of Caozhou / 贈曹州刺史 · Action: posthumous
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Label: palace attendant (shizhong) / 侍中 · Action: refused
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Label: Equal in Honors to the Three Excellencies / 儀同三司 · Action: granted
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Label: posthumous Equal in Honors to the Three Excellencies / 贈儀同三司 · Action: posthumous
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Status: confined · Action: entered
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Status: refused-appointment · Action: refused
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Status: released · Action: released
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Status: penal-servitude · Action: sentenced · Detail: shaved, fettered, assigned to armorer ward / 髡鉗配甲坊
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Northern Qi / 齊 · Relation: served
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Polity: Northern Wei / 魏 · Relation: served
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Polity: Northern Zhou / 周 · Relation: served
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Polity: Sui / 隋 · Relation: lived-under
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Place: Ju in Beihai / 北海劇
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Place: Jinyang / 晉陽 · Relation: posted-to
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Place: Luoyang / 洛陽 · Relation: died-at
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Place: Tianling Mountain / 天陵山 · Relation: visited
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Place: Ye / 鄴 · Relation: resided
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Learning and skills

Skill: poetry / 吟詠 · Level: renowned
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Works and attributed material

Work: poem at Jin shrine / 晉祠詩 · Relation: author
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Kind: counsel · Role: speaker
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Kind: letter · Role: author
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Kind: memorial-draft · Role: author · Other Person Id: Emperor Xiaozhao (孝昭帝)
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Kind: poem · Role: author
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Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Lu Sidao (盧思道)
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Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Emperor Xiaozhao (孝昭帝)
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Kind: speech · Role: speaker
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Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: fugitive · Action: fled-Zhou-army · Place: Jinyang / 晉陽
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Kind: refusal · Role: actor · Action: refused-Dugu-Xin-service
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Kind: political · Role: advisor · Action: urged-regency · Other Person Id: Emperor Xiaozhao (孝昭帝)
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Relation: companion-of · Person Id: Emperor Xiaozhao (孝昭帝)
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Relation: friend-of · Person Id: Emperor Xiaozhao (孝昭帝)
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Relation: associate-of · Person Id: Lu Yuanming (盧元明)
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Relation: associate-of · Person Id: Wei Jijing (魏季景)
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Relation: associate-of · Person Id: Xing Ziliang (邢子良)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: filial, careful, cultivated, tireless in learning · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Assessment: marshal beyond things · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report
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Assessment: scholarly and slow · Provenance: Mode: narrative
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Item: seal and sash / 璽綬 · Relation: received
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Item: silk archery prize / 絹 · Relation: denied
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References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 6Volume 6 Annals 6: Emperor Xiaozhao · 3 passages

帝又密撰事條，將諫，其友王晞以為不可。 The prince secretly drew up a list of grievances and prepared to remonstrate, but his friend Wang Xi urged him not to.

先是禁友王晞，乃捨之，令侍帝。 Wang Xi, his friend, had earlier been placed under restriction; now Emperor Wenxuan freed him and set him to wait on the prince.

又問王晞，晞答如顯安，皆從容受納。 He then questioned Wang Xi, who answered as Xian'an had; the emperor received all their remarks with composure.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 31Volume 31 Biographies 23: Wang Xin; Wang Xi · 64 passages

王昕弟晞 Wang Xin; Wang Xi

弟晞，字叔朗，小名沙彌。 His younger brother Xi, styled Shulang, childhood name Shamini.

子良愛其清悟，與其在洛兩兄書曰：「賢弟彌郎，意識深遠，曠達不羈，簡於造次，言必詣理，吟詠情性，往往麗絕。 Ziliang loved his clarity and insight and wrote to Xi's two elder brothers in Luoyang, "Your worthy younger brother Milang's mind is deep and far-reaching, free and unrestrained, spare even in haste; his words always hit reason; in chanting feeling and nature he is often surpassingly fine.

魏永安初，第二兄暉聘梁，啟晞釋褐除員外散騎侍郎，徵署廣平王開府功曹史。 At the beginning of Yong'an in Wei, his second elder brother Hui went on mission to Liang; he memorialized that Xi be released from commoner status and made attendant cavalier, and Xi was summoned to serve as recorder on the staff of Prince of Guangping's opening office.

晞願養母，竟不受署。 Xi wished to support his mother and in the end did not accept appointment.

及西魏將獨孤信入洛，署為開府記室。 When Western Wei general Dugu Xin entered Luoyang, he appointed Xi recorder on his opening staff.

晞稱先被犬傷，困篤不起。 Xi claimed he had earlier been bitten by a dog and was gravely ill and could not rise.

晞復書曰：「辱告存念，見令起疾，循復眷旨，似疑吾所傷未必是猘。 Xi wrote back, "I am shamed by your care in asking after me and your order to rise from illness; following and pondering your kind intent, you seem to doubt that my wound may not have been from a mad dog.

若王晞無可惜也，則不足取，旣取之，便是可惜。 If Wang Xi were not worth sparing, then he should not be taken; since he is taken, he is worth sparing.

俄而信返，晞遂歸鄴。 Soon Dugu Xin returned west; Xi then went back to Ye.

晞與清河崔瞻、頓丘李度、范陽盧正通首應此選。 Xi and Cui Zhan of Qinghe, Li Du of Dunqiu, and Lu Zhengtong of Fanyang were the first chosen for this.

文襄時為大將軍，握晞等手曰：「我弟並向成長，志識未定，近善狎惡，不能不移。 Gao Cheng was then grand general; he took Xi and the others by the hand and said, "My younger brothers are all growing up; their aims and knowledge are not yet fixed—near goodness they draw close, near evil they inevitably shift.

晞隨神武到晉陽，補中外府功曹參軍，帶常山王演友。 Xi followed Gao Huan to Jinyang, was made staff officer of the inner and outer offices, and attended Prince of Changshan Yan as companion.

及文宣昏逸，常山王數諫，帝疑王假辭於晞，欲加大辟。 When Gao Yang grew dissolute, Prince of Changshan remonstrated repeatedly; Gao Yang suspected the prince borrowed his words from Xi and wished to impose the death penalty.

王私謂晞曰：「博士，明日當作一條事，為欲相活，亦圖自全，宜深體勿怪。」 The prince said privately to Xi, "Doctor, tomorrow you must do one thing—for I mean to keep you alive and also to save myself; understand deeply and do not take it amiss."

乃於衆中杖晞二十。 He then had Xi beaten twenty strokes before the assembly.

帝尋發怒，聞晞得杖，以故不殺，髡鉗配甲坊。 Gao Yang soon flared in anger; hearing Xi had been beaten, on that account he did not kill him but shaved his head, put him in fetters, and assigned him to the armorer's ward.

於是每問王疾，謂曰：「努力強食，當以王晞還汝。」 He then each day inquired after the prince's illness and told him, "Strive and force yourself to eat; I will give Wang Xi back to you."

乃釋晞令往。 He released Xi and sent him to the prince.

王抱晞曰：「吾氣力綴然，恐不復相見。」 The prince embraced Xi and said, "My breath and strength are failing; I fear we shall not meet again."

晞流涕曰：「天道神明，豈令殿下遂斃此舍。 Xi wept and said, "Heaven's way and the spirits—how could they let Your Highness die in this house!

晞由是得免徙，還為王友。 Xi was thereby spared exile and returned as the prince's companion.

晞言於王曰：「受爵天朝，拜恩私第，自古以為干紀。 Wang Xi said to the prince, "To receive rank from the heavenly court and pay thanks at a private residence has from antiquity been held a breach of protocol.

常從容謂晞曰：「主上起居不恒，卿耳目所具，吾豈可以前逢一怒，遂爾結舌。 He often said calmly to Wang Xi, "The sovereign's conduct is unsteady; you see and hear what he does — can I really stay silent forever because I once provoked his anger?

晞遂條十餘事以呈。 Wang Xi then set out more than ten items and presented them.

明日見晞曰：「吾長夜九思，今便息意。」 Next day he saw Wang Xi and said, "I thought all night; now my mind is at rest."

便命火對晞焚之。 He ordered fire and burned the draft before Wang Xi.

王謂晞曰：「一人垂拱，吾曹亦保優閑。」 The prince said to Wang Xi, "One man holds court at ease; we too shall keep our ease."

晞曰：「天保享祚，東宮委一胡人，今卒覽萬機，駕馭雄桀。 Wang Xi said, "In the Tianbao era fortunes held; the eastern palace was entrusted to a barbarian. Now he suddenly oversees all affairs, driving fierce men.

晞曰：「周公抱成王朝諸侯，攝政七年，然後復子明辟，幸有故事，惟殿下慮之。」 Wang Xi said, "The Duke of Zhou held King Cheng in his arms and received the feudal lords, regent seven years, then returned the government and made the son clear sovereign — fortunately there is precedent; only Your Highness must weigh it."

晞曰：「殿下今日地望，欲避周公得耶？」 Wang Xi said, "Your Highness's standing today — can you avoid the Duke of Zhou?"

帝臨發，勑王從駕，除晞幷州長史。 When the emperor set out, he ordered the prince to follow the carriage; Wang Xi was made chief administrator of Bing.

乃延晞謂曰：「不早用卿言，使群小弄權，幾至傾覆。 He then summoned Wang Xi and said, "Because I did not heed your words early, petty men wielded power and I nearly came to ruin.

晞曰：「殿下將往時地位，猶可以名教出處。 Wang Xi said, "Your Highness's former standing could still be weighed by name and teaching in going forth and withdrawing.

有頃，奏趙郡王叡為左長史，晞為司馬。 Before long it was memorialized that Prince of Zhao Commandery Gao Rui be left chief administrator, and Wang Xi be chief marshal.

每夜載入，晝則不與語，以晞儒緩，恐不允武將之意。 Each night he was brought in by carriage; by day they did not speak — because Wang Xi was scholarly and slow, fearing he would not suit the generals' mind.

後進晞密室曰：「比王侯諸貴每見煎迫，言我違天不祥，恐當或有變起，吾正欲以法繩之。」 Later the prince entered a private room and said, "Of late the princes and great men each press me, saying I go against heaven and invite ill fortune — fearing some change may rise. I mean to hold them by law."

晞曰：「朝廷比者疏遠親戚，寧思骨血之重。 Wang Xi said, "The court of late has kept kin at distance — does it consider the weight of bone and blood?

晞曰：「竊謂天時人事，同無異揆，是以冒犯雷霆，不憚斧鉞。 Wang Xi said, "I hold that heaven's timing and human affairs share one measure; therefore I offend the thunder, fearless of axe and halberd.

尋有詔以丞相任重，普進府僚一班，晞以司馬領吏部郎中。 Soon an edict said the chancellor's burden was heavy and all staff advanced one grade; Wang Xi as chief marshal also held the post of gentleman in the ministry of personnel.

丞相從事中郎陸杳將出使，臨別握晞手曰：「相王功格區宇，天下樂推，歌謠滿道，物無異望。 Chancellor attendant Lu Yao was about to go on mission; on parting he clasped Wang Xi's hand and said, "The great prince's merit fills the realm, the realm joyfully urges him on, songs fill the roads, things have no different wish.

晞尋述杳言。 Wang Xi soon repeated Yao's words.

晞以事隙問彥深，彥深曰：「我比亦驚此音謠，每欲陳聞，則口噤心戰。 Wang Xi seized a moment and asked Yanshen; Yanshen said, "I too of late was startled by these songs; each time I wished to report, my mouth locked and my heart trembled.

九月，除晞散騎常侍，仍領兼吏部郎中。 In the ninth month Wang Xi was made attendant cavalier; he still held concurrently gentleman in the ministry of personnel.

每令晞就東堂監視太子冠服，導引趨拜。 Each time Wang Xi was sent to the eastern hall to oversee the crown prince's cap and robe, guiding and leading his pace in bowing.

為太子太傅，晞以局司奉璽綬。 He was made grand tutor of the crown prince; Wang Xi as office-holder received the seal and sash.

晞曰：「道路傳言，車駕將行。」 Wang Xi said, "On the roads they say the imperial carriage will march."

帝曰：「庫莫奚南侵，我未經親戎，因此聊欲習武。」 The emperor said, "The Kumo Xi raid south; I have not myself led arms — therefore I wish for the moment to drill soldiers."

晞曰：「鑾駕巡狩，為復可爾，若輕有驅使，恐天下失望。」 Wang Xi said, "Imperial tours for inspection may still pass; if lightly there is dispatch, I fear the realm will lose hope."

時二人奏車駕北征後，人言陽休之、王晞數與諸人遊宴，不以公事在懷。 At that time the two reported that after the imperial carriage's northern campaign, people said Yang Xiuzhi and Wang Xi often feasted and wandered with others, not keeping public business in mind.

帝杖休之、晞脛各四十。 The emperor flogged Xiuzhi and Wang Xi each forty blows on the shins.

帝斬人於前，問晞曰：「此人合死不？」 The emperor beheaded a man before him and asked Wang Xi, "Does this man deserve death?"

晞曰：「罪實合死，但恨其不得死地。 Wang Xi said, "His crime indeed deserves death — only I regret he did not die in the proper place.

帝欲以晞為侍中，苦辭不受。 The emperor wished to make Wang Xi palace attendant; he firmly declined and would not accept.

或勸晞勿自疏，晞曰：「我少年以來，閱要人多矣，充詘少時，鮮不敗績。 Some urged Wang Xi not to distance himself; Wang Xi said, "From youth I have seen many men in power; puffed up for a little while, few did not end in ruin.

百官嘗賜射，晞中的，當得絹，為不書箭，有司不與。 Once the hundred officials were granted an archery contest; Wang Xi hit the target and should have received silk, but because he did not mark his arrow, the office would not give it.

晞陶陶然曰：「我今可謂武有餘文不足矣。」 Wang Xi said with easy content, "Today I may be called abundant in martial, short in literary."

晞無子，帝將賜之妾，使小黃門就宅宣旨，皇後相聞晞妻。 Wang Xi had no son; the emperor would grant him a concubine; a yellow gate attendant went to his house to announce the edict; the empress also sent word to Wang Xi's wife.

晞令妻答，妻終不言，晞以手拊胸而退。 Wang Xi had his wife answer; the wife never spoke; Wang Xi patted his chest with his hand and withdrew.

忽有相王使至，召晞不時至。 Suddenly a messenger of the great prince arrived; he summoned Wang Xi, who did not come at once.

明日丞相西閤祭酒盧思道謂晞曰：「昨被召已朱顏，得不以魚鳥致怪？」 Next day Lu Sidao, libationer of the chancellor's Western Pavilion, said to Xi, "When you were summoned yesterday your face was already flushed — surely the fish and birds are not to blame for the offense?"

晞緩笑曰：「昨晚陶然，頗以酒漿被責，卿輩亦是留連之一物，豈直在魚鳥而已。」 Xi smiled slowly. "Last night I was quite at ease, and got a fair scolding over wine. You lot are detainments too — not fish and birds alone."

山路險迥，懼有土賊，而晞溫酒服膏，曾不一廢。 The mountain road was treacherous and far; they feared bandits, yet Xi warmed his wine and took his salves without ever missing a day.

齊亡，周武以晞為儀同大將軍、太子諫議大夫。 When Qi fell, Emperor Wu of Zhou made Xi Equal-in-Honor Grand General and grand remonstrant of the crown prince.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 34Volume 34 Biographies 26: Yang Yin; Yan Zixian; Song Qindao; Zheng Yi · 1 passage

尋復簿錄五家，王晞固諫，乃各沒一房，孩幼兄弟皆除名。 Before long registers were drawn up against five families; Wang Xi protested firmly; in the end one branch of each house was confiscated and brothers and children were struck from the rolls.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 38Volume 38 Biographies 30: Xin Shu; Yuan Wenyao; Zhao Yanshen · 2 passages

孝昭嘗謂王晞云：「若言眾心皆謂天下有歸，何不見彥深有語？」 Xiaozhao once said to Wang Xi, "If men say all hearts agree the realm has found its lord, why have you never heard Yanshen say so?"

晞以告，彥深不獲已，陳請，其為時重如此。 Xi told Yanshen; unable to refuse further, Yanshen submitted a memorial urging accession — such was the weight he carried in his age.