Wei Ran 魏冉

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0001, shiji:072:s0007

Roles

• Aristocrat
• General
• Official
• Statesman

Family

• Kin of King Zhao of Qin (昭王)
  Kinship Term: maternal uncle / 親舅 · Subject Role: maternal-uncle · Object Role: sister's-son · Line: maternal · Generation Distance: 1 · Intermediary Person Ids: Empress Dowager Xuan (宣太后)
• Sibling of Mi Rong (羋戎)
  Kinship Term: brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Birth Order: 1 · Object Birth Order: 2
• Sibling of Empress Dowager Xuan (宣太后)
  Kinship Term: elder half-brother by a different father / 異父長弟 · Shared Parentage: maternal-half · Subject Relative Age: younger · Subject Role: younger-brother · Object Role: elder-sister

Origins and identity

• Label: Mi clan / 羋氏 · Relation: descended-from
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0002

Career and standing

• Label: chancellor of Qin / 相秦 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 免二歲，復相秦 · Western Year: BC 296
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0035
• Label: chancellor / 相 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 復相冉 · Western Year: BC 291
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0028
• Label: chancellor of Qin / 秦相 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 昭王七年 · Western Year: BC 300
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0023
• Label: general / 將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 昭王即位 · Western Year: BC 306
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0012
• Label: chancellor of Qin / 相秦 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 魏冉復相秦 · Western Year: BC 288
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0034
• Label: chancellor of Qin / 相秦 · Action: dismissed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六歲而免 · Western Year: BC 294
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0034
• Label: chancellor / 相國 · Action: dismissed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 昭王三十六年 · Western Year: BC 271
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0110
• Label: prime minister / chancellor / 相國 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 昭王三十二年 · Western Year: BC 275
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0040
• Label: chancellor / 相 · Action: resigned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 謝病免相 · Western Year: BC 292
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0027
• Title: Marquis of Rang / 穰侯 · Place: Rang / 穰 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 封魏冉於穰 · Western Year: BC 291
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0028
• Place: Tao / 陶 · Action: increased · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 復益封陶 · Western Year: BC 291
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0028
• Action: increased · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 穰侯益封 · Western Year: BC 274
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0080
• Title: Marquis of Rang / 穰侯 · Action: held
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0028

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Qin / 秦 · Relation: served
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0001, shiji:072:s0012
• Place: Chu / 楚
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0002
• Place: Tao / 陶 · Relation: buried-at
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0112
• Place: Tao / 陶 · Relation: died-at
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0112
• Place: Xianyang / 咸陽 · Relation: posted-to
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0012

Works and attributed material

• Kind: speech · Role: speaker
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0076

Events and relationships

• Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: attacked · Place: Yique / 伊闕 · Other Person Id: Bai Qi (白起) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 昭王十四年 · Western Year: BC 293
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0025
• Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: besieged · Place: Daliang / 大梁 · Other Person Id: Mang Mao (芒卯) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 昭王三十二年 · Western Year: BC 275
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0040
• Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: Bao Yuan (暴鳶) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 伐魏 · Western Year: BC 274
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0079
• Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: Mang Mao (芒卯) · Place: Huayang / 華陽 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 破芒卯於華陽下 · Western Year: BC 273
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0081
• Kind: political · Role: subject · Action: dismissed-and-exiled-to-fief · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 昭王三十六年 · Western Year: BC 271
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0110, shiji:072:s0111
• Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: lifted-siege · Place: Liang / 梁 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 昭王三十二年 · Western Year: BC 275
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0076, shiji:072:s0077
• Kind: military · Role: suppressor · Action: suppressed-rebellion · Other Person Id: Ji Jun (季君) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 昭王即位 · Western Year: BC 306
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0013
• Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: withdrew · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 引兵而歸 · Western Year: BC 273
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0105
• Relation: ally-of · Person Id: Bai Qi (白起)
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0038
• Relation: recommender-of · Person Id: Bai Qi (白起)
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0025, shiji:072:s0038
• Relation: patron-of · Person Id: Shou Zhu (壽燭)
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0027
• Relation: patron-of · Person Id: Zao (灶)
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0106

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: intelligent and experienced in affairs · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Su Dai (蘇代)
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0083, shiji:072:s0104
• Assessment: merit in Qin's eastward expansion and imperial claim · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Sima Qian (太史公)
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0115
• Assessment: most capable among the brothers · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Sima Qian (太史公)
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0010
• Assessment: usurping power among the feudal lords · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Fan Ju (范雎)
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0109
• Assessment: wealth surpassed the royal house · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0039
• Item: more than a thousand baggage wagons / 輜車千乘有餘 · Relation: possessed
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0111
• Item: wealth exceeding the royal house / 富於王室 · Relation: possessed
  Explicit · shiji:072:s0039