Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Historian

Wang Yin 王隱

Attested AD 300

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wang Yin was a historian.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 300 西晉王隱著蜀記
Strongly inferred · Records of the Three Kingdoms 33, passage 169

References in the histories

Records of the Three Kingdoms, Chapter 33Volume 33: Book of Shu 3: Biography of the Later Lord · 1 passage

〈王隱《蜀記》曰：艾報書云：「王綱失道，群英並起，龍戰虎爭，終歸真主，此蓋天命去就之道也。〈Wang Yin's Records of Shu preserve Deng Ai's answer: "When the imperial order falters, heroes rise like spring weeds; dragon and tiger wrestle until the true sovereign wins—that is simply heaven handing the mandate from one house to another.