Wang Xun (王恂) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Xun as an astrologer, astronomer, official, and teacher. This record brings together 4 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wang Xun	王恂	Wang Xun
Title	Grand Astrologer	太史令
Title	Raised-Proposal Grandee	嘉議大夫
Surname	Wang	王	Wang
Given	Xun	恂	Xun
Personal	Xun	恂	Xun

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · mingshi:034:s0014
Sex: male
Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0028

Roles

Astrologer
Astronomer
Official
Teacher

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十九年（承上；據《元史》為至元十九年） · Regnal Year: 19 · Western Year: AD 1282
Explicit · mingshi:034:s0011, mingshi:034:s0012
Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0028

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 至正十七年（據《元史》當作至元十七年） · Regnal Year: 17 · Western Year: AD 1280
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:034:s0011, mingshi:034:s0012
Source Date: Text: 至元十九年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 19 · Western Year: AD 1282
Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0028, yuanshi:171:s0027
Source Date: Text: 十九年（承上；據《元史》為至元十九年） · Regnal Year: 19 · Western Year: AD 1282
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:034:s0011, mingshi:034:s0012

Career and standing

Label: Grand Astrologer / 太史令
Explicit · mingshi:034:s0014
Label: Assistant to the Heir Apparent / 贊善 · Action: held
Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0028
Label: Grand Astrologer / 太史令 · Action: held
Explicit · mingshi:034:s0014
Label: Raised-Proposal Grandee / 嘉議大夫 · Action: held
Explicit · mingshi:034:s0014

Works and attributed material

Work: Season Granting Calendar / 授時曆 · Relation: associated-with
Strongly inferred · mingshi:034:s0011, mingshi:034:s0012
Work: ready reckoners / 立成 · Relation: author
Explicit · mingshi:034:s0012, mingshi:034:s0014, mingshi:034:s0015
Kind: compilation · Role: author · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: Imperial Astronomical Bureau edition / 欽天監本
Explicit · mingshi:034:s0014

Events and relationships

Kind: scholarly · Role: drafter · Action: prepared-drafts · Other Person Id: Guo Shoujing (郭守敬) · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Uncertain · mingshi:034:s0015
Relation: predecessor-of · Person Id: Liu Yin (劉因)
Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0028
Relation: collaborator-of · Person Id: Guo Shoujing (郭守敬)
Explicit · mingshi:034:s0013, mingshi:034:s0015

Source notes

Source Text: 至正十七年 · Preferred Reading: 至元十七年 · Reason: The cited Yuan History dates completion of the Season Granting Calendar to Zhiyuan 17 (AD 1280); Zhizheng is incompatible with Wang Xun and Guo Shoujing.
Textual variant · mingshi:034:s0011
Historicity: historical
Explicit · mingshi:034:s0012

References in the histories

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History of Ming, Chapter 34Volume 34 Treatises 10: Calendar 4 · 3 passages

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十九年王恂卒，時歷雖頒，然立成之數尚皆有定藁。 Wang Xun died in the nineteenth year. The calendar had been promulgated, but the ready-reckoner constants still existed only as settled drafts.

而今欽天監本，載嘉議大夫太史令臣王恂奉敕撰。 The Imperial Astronomical Bureau edition now in use, however, credits Raised-Proposal Grandee and Grand Astrologer Wang Xun as having composed it by imperial commission.

意者王先有藁，而郭卒成之歟？ Perhaps Wang prepared the drafts and Guo brought them to completion?

History of Yuan, Chapter 171Volume 171 Biographies 58: Liu Yin, Wu Cheng · 1 passage

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初，裕皇建學宮中，命贊善王恂教近侍子弟，恂卒，乃命因繼之。 Earlier the Heir Apparent had established a school within the palace and appointed Wang Xun, Assistant to the Heir Apparent, to instruct the young attendants. When Wang Xun died, Liu Yin was ordered to take his place.