Wang Yanhan (王延翰)

Overview

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

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wang Yanhan	王延翰	Wang Yanhan
Personal name	Wang Yanhan	王延翰	Wáng Yánhàn
Given	Yanhan	延翰	Yánhàn

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:071:s0050

Roles

Administrator
Military Officer
Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 同光四年二月庚子 · Regnal Year: 4 · Month: 2 · Sexagenary Day: 庚子 · Western Year: AD 926
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Source Date: Text: 同光四年三月辛亥 · Regnal Year: 4 · Month: 3 · Sexagenary Day: 辛亥 · Western Year: AD 926
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Source Date: Text: 天成元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 926
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Career and standing

Label: military commissioner of the Weiwu Army / 威武軍節度使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同光四年三月辛亥 · Regnal Year: 4 · Month: 3 · Sexagenary Day: 辛亥 · Western Year: AD 926
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Label: acting military governor / 權知軍府事 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同光四年二月庚子 · Regnal Year: 4 · Month: 2 · Western Year: AD 926
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Label: Fujian deputy commissioner / 福建副使 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同光四年二月庚子 · Regnal Year: 4 · Month: 2 · Western Year: AD 926
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Places and affiliations

Label: Min / 閩 · Relation: ruled
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Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Label: report of acting as military governor / 奏稱權知軍府事 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同光四年二月庚子 · Regnal Year: 4 · Month: 2 · Western Year: AD 926
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References in the histories

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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 71Volume 71: Timeline for the Hereditary Houses of the Ten Kingdoms · 4 passages

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王氏世次，曰潮、曰審知、曰延翰、曰璘、曰昶、曰曦、曰延政，凡七主。 The Wang clan succession runs: Chao, Shenzhi, Yanhan, Lin, Chang, Xi, and Yanzheng—seven rulers in all.

又至四年二月庚子，福建副使王延翰奏稱權知軍府事，三月辛亥，遂除延翰威武軍節度使。 Further, in the second month of the fourth year (gengzi day), the Fujian deputy commissioner Wang Yanhan reported that he was acting military governor; in the third month (xinhai day), Yanhan was appointed military commissioner of the Weiwu Army.

以此推之，審知卒當在同光三年十二月，蓋閩去京師遠，明年二月延翰之奏始至京師，理當然也。 From this we infer that Shenzhi died in the twelfth month of the third year of Tongguang; Min lies far from the capital, so Yanhan's report reached the capital only in the second month of the following year—which is only to be expected.

蓋璘以天成元年殺延翰自立，是歲丙戌，至清泰二年乙未，實十年而卒，與《閩王列傳》合，而《舊史》、《九國志》皆繆也。 Lin killed Yanhan and established himself in the first year of Tiancheng (the bingxu year) and died in the second year of Qingtai (the yimao year)—ten years in all, which agrees with the Min Wang Liezhuan; the Old History and the Jiuguo Zhi are mistaken.