Sui and Tang · Son of Zai

Wang Yanshi 王晏實

Attested AD 835 - AD 836

Passages: 3
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Wang Yanshi was a Son of Zai.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 835 甘露之變
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 113
AD 836 開成元年七月
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 160, passage 294

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Wang Yanzai (王晏宰)
his son 其子
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 113
Child of Wang Zhixing (王智興)
son 子 · paternal line
personally reared 自養之 · Foster parentage
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 160, passage 294; New Book of Tang 172, passage 122

Key source chapters

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 113
Value historical
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 160, passage 294

References in the histories

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 160Volume 156 Biographies 106: Yu Di, Han Hong, Wang Zhixing · 1 passage

智興九子：晏平、晏宰、晏臯、晏實、晏恭、晏逸、晏深、晏斌、晏韜，而晏平、晏宰最知名。 Zhixing had nine sons—Yanping, Yanzai, Yangao, Yanshi, Yangong, Yanyi, Yanshen, Yanbin, and Yantao—of whom Yanping and Yanzai were the best known.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 172Volume 172 Biographies 97: Yu, Wang, Two Du's, Fan · 2 passages

德裕以宰乘破竹勢不遂取澤州，以其子晏實守磁，為顧望計，帝有詔切責。 Zai had the momentum of a bamboo split wide open yet stalled before Zezhou while his son Yan Shi guarded Cizhou—a feint of hesitation—and the emperor sent down a stern rebuke.

晏實幼機警，智興自養之，故名與諸父齒。 Yan Shi was quick-witted from boyhood; Zhixing personally reared him, so his name was placed among those of his uncles.