Overview
The translated histories identify Wang Zhen as a courtier, eunuch, and named individual. This record brings together 3 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Wang Zhen | 王振 | Wang Zhen |
| Personal name | Wang Zhen | 王振 | Wang Zhen |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · mingshi:012:s0060, mingshi:012:s0187
Roles
- Courtier
- Eunuch
- Named Individual
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 十一年 · Western Year: AD 1446Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:169:s0141
- Source Date: Text: 天順元年冬十月丁酉 · Western Year: AD 1457Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:012:s0001, mingshi:012:s0060
- Source Date: Text: 贊 · Western Year: AD 1464Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:012:s0187
Career and standing
- Honor: grant of sacrificial burial rites / 賜祭葬 · Action: received posthumously · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順元年冬十月丁酉 · Western Year: AD 1457Explicit · mingshi:012:s0060
Places and affiliations
- Label: Ming / 明 · Relation: servedStrongly inferred · mingshi:012:s0187
- Polity: Ming / 明 · Relation: servedStrongly inferred · mingshi:012:s0060
Events and relationships
- Kind: political · Role: power-holder · Action: monopolized-power-and-opened-breach · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · mingshi:012:s0187
- Explicit · mingshi:012:s0187, mingshi:012:s0188
- Relation: patron-of · Person Id: Nai Heng (奈亨)Explicit · mingshi:169:s0141
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: monopolized power and caused the emperor's exile · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · mingshi:012:s0187
- Item: shrine titled "Commending Loyalty" / 旌忠祠 · Relation: commemorated by a shrine established for him · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順元年冬十月丁酉 · Western Year: AD 1457Explicit · mingshi:012:s0060
Source notes
- Kind: posthumous-status · Statement: He was already dead when the court granted him sacrificial burial and a shrine · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順元年冬十月丁酉 · Western Year: AD 1457Strongly inferred · mingshi:012:s0060
References in the histories
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