Wang Zan (王瓚) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Zan as a general and official. This record brings together 6 passages from 4 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wang Zan	王瓚	Wang Zan
Personal	Wang Zan	王瓚
Personal name	Wang Zan	王瓚	Wang Zan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:031:s0007, jiuwudaishi:065:s0027, xinwudaishi:003:s0055

Roles

General
Official

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同光二年 · Western Year: AD 924
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:031:s0007

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 龍德三年冬十月 · Regnal Year: 3 · Season: winter · Lunar Month: 10 · Western Year: AD 923
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:010:s0170, jiuwudaishi:010:s0183
Source Date: Text: AD 919 · Western Year: AD 919
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:065:s0027
Source Date: Text: 同光二年 · Western Year: AD 924
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:031:s0007
Source Date: Text: 贞明五年秋八月 · Western Year: AD 919
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:003:s0055

Career and standing

Label: commissioner for pacification and campaign of the northern campaign headquarters / 北面行營招討使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 贞明五年秋八月乙未朔 · Western Year: AD 919
Explicit · xinwudaishi:003:s0055
Label: Kaifeng intendant / 開封尹 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:010:s0170
Label: prefect of Kaifeng / 開封尹 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:003:s0055
Label: Grand Preceptor of the Heir Apparent / 太子太師 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同光二年 · Western Year: AD 924
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:031:s0007

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: defender · Action: mobilized troops and civilians to man the walls
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:010:s0171
Kind: surrender · Role: Kaifeng defender · Action: went out and surrendered when Tang troops attacked Fengqiu Gate
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:010:s0183

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 10Volume 10 Book of Later Liang 10: Later Emperors Annals 3 · 3 passages

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時禁軍尚有四千人，朱圭請以拒唐軍，帝不從，登建國門召開封尹王瓚，謂之曰：「段凝未至，社稷係卿方略。」 Four thousand guards remained; Zhu Gui begged to fight; the Emperor refused, climbed the Founding Gate, called Wang Zan, and said: "Until Duan Ning comes the realm rests on you."

瓚即驅軍民登城為備。 Wang Zan mobilized troops and civilians onto the walls.

遲明，唐軍攻封丘門，王瓚迎降。 At dawn Tang forces took Fengqiu Gate; Wang Zan surrendered.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 31Volume 31 Book of Later Tang 7: Zhuangzong Annals 5 · 1 passage

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己巳，故宣武軍節度副使、權知軍州事、檢校太傅王瓚贈太子太師。 On jisi the late Wang Zan of Xuanwu was posthumously made Grand Preceptor.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 65Volume 65 Book of Later Tang 41: Biographies 17: Li Jianji, Shi Junli, Gao Xinggui, Zhang Tingyu, Wang Sitong, Suo Zitong · 1 passage

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其年十二月，與汴將王瓚戰於戚城，建及傷手，莊宗解禦衣金帶賜之。 That twelfth month he fought the Bian commander Wang Zan at Qicheng. Jianji took a wound to the hand, and Emperor Zhuangzong took off his own court robe and gold belt and gave them to him.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 3Volume 3 Later Liang Annals 3: Later Emperors · 1 passage

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秋八月乙未朔，開封尹王瓚為北面行營招討使。 On the yiwei new moon of the eighth month in autumn, Kaifeng prefect Wang Zan was appointed commander of the northern campaign headquarters.