Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · General and Aristocrat

Wang Xing 王興

Died AD 578

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wang Xing was a general and Aristocrat.

Life and dates

Death

AD 578 高祖崩，宣帝嗣位
Killed · Cause Intimacy with Yuwen Xian; emperor alleged a joint plot · Authority Yuwen Yun (宣帝)
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passages 257-258

Attested activity

AD 578 高祖崩，宣帝嗣位
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passage 257

Career and standing

Senior Grand General 上大將軍
Held
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passage 257
Duke of Anyi 安邑公
Held
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passage 257
Executed
AD 578 高祖崩，宣帝嗣位 · Authority Yuwen Yun (宣帝) · Mode allegation Source Person Id Yuwen Yun (宣帝)
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passage 258

Places and affiliations

Polity Northern Zhou 北周 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Book of Zhou 12, passage 257

Events and relationships

Relation Intimate with · Person Yuwen Xian (憲)
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passage 257

Assessments and attributes

Assessment died as companion to Yuwen Xian amid cruel injustice · Mode named-source-report Source Work people of the time 時人
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passage 259

References in the histories

Book of Zhou, Chapter 12Volume 12 Biographies 4: Prince Xian of Qiyang · 2 passages

又殺上大將軍安邑公王興、上開府獨孤熊、開府豆盧紹等，皆以昵於憲也。 They also killed Senior Grand General Wang Xing, Duke of Anyi, Upper Opener-of-Gates Dugu Xiong, and Opener-of-Gates Doulu Shao—all because they were intimate with Yuwen Xian.

帝旣誅憲，無以為辭，故托興等與憲結謀，遂加其戮。 The emperor, having already executed Yuwen Xian, had no other pretext; therefore he claimed that Wang Xing and the others had joined Yuwen Xian in plotting, and thereupon added them to the slaughter.