Wang Zhongshu (王仲舒)

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Zhongshu as an administrator, official, and writer. This record brings together 8 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 Zhongshu	王仲舒	Wang Zhongshu
Posthumous name	Cheng	成
Courtesy name	Hongzhong	弘中	Hongzhong
Personal name	Wang Zhongshu	王仲舒	Wang Zhongshu
Given	Zhongshu	仲舒

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · xintangshu:161:s0137

Roles

Administrator
Official
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Age: Years: 62 · Statement: died in office
Explicit · xintangshu:161:s0164

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 元和初 · Western Year: AD 806
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:161:s0145
Source Date: Text: 穆宗立 · Western Year: AD 820
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:161:s0153
Source Date: Text: 貞元中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 785 · End: AD 805
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:161:s0139

Family

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Child of Mother of Wang Zhongshu (王仲舒母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological

Career and standing

Label: posthumous Left Regular Attendant; posthumous name Cheng / 贈左散騎常侍，謚曰成 · Action: granted
Explicit · xintangshu:161:s0164

Places and affiliations

Place: Qi in Bingzhou / 并州祁
Explicit · xintangshu:161:s0137

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker
Explicit · xintangshu:161:s0155, xintangshu:161:s0156, xintangshu:161:s0161

Events and relationships

Kind: administration · Role: governor · Action: abolished-wine-monopoly
Explicit · xintangshu:161:s0159
Relation: friend-of · Person Id: Yang Ping (楊憑)
Explicit · xintangshu:161:s0138, xintangshu:161:s0146

References in the histories

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New Book of Tang, Chapter 161Volume 161 Biographies 86: Zhang, Zhao, Li, Zheng, Xu, Wang, Feng, Yu · 8 passages

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王仲舒，字弘中，并州祁人。 Wang Zhongshu, styled Hongzhong, came from Qi in Bingzhou.

後入閣，帝顧宰相指曰：「是豈王仲舒邪？」 Later when he entered the privy council, the emperor looked at the chief minister and pointed, saying, "Is that not Wang Zhongshu?"

楊憑得罪斥去，無敢過其家，仲舒屢存之。 When Yang Ping was punished and expelled, no one dared visit his home; Zhongshu repeatedly called on him.

穆宗立，每言仲舒之文可思，最宜為誥，有古風。 When Muzong acceded, he often said Zhongshu's writings were worth pondering, most fit for edicts, and had an antique flavor.

仲舒罷酤錢九十萬。 Zhongshu abolished ninety thousand strings of monopoly wine revenue.

吏坐失官息錢五十萬，悉產不能償，仲舒焚簿書，脫械不問。 Officials were liable for fifty thousand strings of lost office interest and could not repay from all their property; Zhongshu burned the ledgers, removed their shackles, and did not pursue the matter.

卒於官，年六十二，贈左散騎常侍，謚曰成。 He died in office at sixty-two; he was posthumously granted left regular attendant at the Imperial Secretariat with the posthumous name Cheng.

仲舒尚義概，所居急民廢置，自為科條，初若煩密，久皆稱其便。 Zhongshu valued righteous boldness; wherever he governed he hastened to repair what the people had abandoned; the regulations he drew up at first seemed tedious, but in time all praised their convenience.