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
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Wei | 威 | Wei |
| Surname | Luo | 羅 | Luo |
| Personal name | Wei | 威 | Wei |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleExplicit · jiutangshu:181:s0199
Roles
- Administrator
- Poet
- Writer
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 仕梁數年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 907 · End: AD 910Explicit event contextual date · jiutangshu:181:s0199, jiutangshu:181:s0200, jiutangshu:181:s0201, jiutangshu:181:s0203, jiutangshu:181:s0205
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
- Label: shared clan surname with Luo Yin / 宗姓Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0203
Places and affiliations
- Place: Ye / 鄴 · Relation: associated-withExplicit · jiutangshu:181:s0205
Learning and skills
- Belief: Confucian learning / 儒術 · Relation: adherent-ofExplicit · jiutangshu:181:s0200
- Skill: poetry composition / 賦詠 · Level: practiced with eleganceExplicit · jiutangshu:181:s0201
- Skill: administrative practice / 吏道 · Level: thoroughly versedExplicit · jiutangshu:181:s0199
Works and attributed material
- Work: Collected Poems Stolen from Jiangdong / 偷江東集 · Relation: authorExplicit · jiutangshu:181:s0205
- Work: Collected Poems Stolen from Jiangdong / 偷江東集 · Relation: author · Quantity: Volumes: 5Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0205
- Kind: character-sketch · Role: subject
- Kind: encomium · Role: subject · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
- Kind: historian-judgment · Role: subject · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Events and relationships
- Kind: scholarly · Role: host · Action: composed poetry with guests and staff on spring and moonlit eveningsExplicit · jiutangshu:181:s0201
- Kind: scholarly · Role: recipient · Action: received collected poems · Other Person Id: Luo Yin (羅隱)Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0204
- Kind: scholarly · Role: patron · Action: recruited literary menExplicit · jiutangshu:181:s0200
- Kind: diplomatic · Role: sender · Action: sent envoys with gifts and claimed shared clan ties · Other Person Id: Luo Yin (羅隱)Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0203
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-judgmentStrongly inferred · jiutangshu:181:s0211
- Assessment: passionately fond of Luo Yin's poetry · Other Person Id: Luo Yin (羅隱) · Provenance: Mode: narrativeExplicit · jiutangshu:181:s0205
- Kind: character · Statement: quick-witted and keenly perceptiveExplicit · jiutangshu:181:s0199
- Item: library of ten thousand scrolls / 書至萬卷 · Relation: ownedExplicit · jiutangshu:181:s0200
References in the histories
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