Five Dynasties · Administrator and Poet

Wei

Attested AD 907 - AD 910

Passages
5
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Wei as an administrator, poet, and writer. This record brings together 5 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Wei Wei
Surname Luo Luo
Personal name Wei Wei

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Poet
  • Writer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Family

  • Kin of Luo Yin (羅隱)
    Kinship Term: uncle / 叔父 · Parentage: claimed · Subject Role: nephew · Object Role: uncle · Line: paternal

Origins and identity

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: among those who succeeded well in succession; one of the two sons of the Shi and Luo houses held up as exemplars · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Strongly inferred · jiutangshu:181:s0211
  • Assessment: passionately fond of Luo Yin's poetry · Other Person Id: Luo Yin (羅隱) · Provenance: Mode: narrative
  • Kind: character · Statement: quick-witted and keenly perceptive
  • Item: library of ten thousand scrolls / 書至萬卷 · Relation: owned

References in the histories

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 181Volume 177 Biographies 127: Cui Shenyou, Cui Gong, Lu Jun, Pei Xiu, Yang Shou, Wei Baoheng, Lu Yan, Xiao Houzi, Liu Zhan, Liu Zhuan, Cao Que, Bi Xian, Du Shenquan, Liu Ye, Dou Luzhan · 5 passages