Luo Wei 羅威

Other names

Family

• Parent of Luo Tinggui (羅廷規)
  father 父
  son 子
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 187; Old Book of Tang 185, passage 179
• Child of Luo Hongxin (羅弘信)
  father 父
  son 子
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passages 160-161; Old Book of Tang 185, passages 152, 156
• Kin of Luo Yin (羅隱)
  paternal uncle 叔父 · Claimed parentage · paternal line
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 195

Origins and identity

• shared Luo clan surname with Luo Yin 宗姓
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 195

Career and standing

• deputy military governor of the Tianxiong Army 天雄軍節度副使
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 154
• Chief Minister of the Secretariat 中書令
  Held concurrently
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 190
• Guardian Grand Preceptor 守太師
  Held
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 190
• Military governor of Weibo 魏博節度使
  Inherited
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 164
• Director of the Department of State Affairs 尚書令
  Posthumously granted
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 190
• Zhenzhuang 貞壯
  Posthumous title
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 190

Places and affiliations

• Later Liang 梁
  Relation Served
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 198
• Tang 唐
  Relation Served
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 164
• Polity Liang 梁 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 190
• Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 2

Learning and skills

• Belief Confucian learning 儒術 · Relation Adherent of
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 192
• Skill poetry composition 賦詠 · Level practiced
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 193

Works and attributed material

• Collected Poems Pilfered from the Eastern River 偷江東集
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 197
• historian eulogizes five houses including Luo; Wei counted among good successors of Luo house
  Other · Subject
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passages 201, 203-207

Events and relationships

• Attacked Cangzhou
  AD 901 三年 · Military · Commander
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 173
• Barely escaped
  AD 905 天祐二年七月十三日夜 · Military · Target · With Li Gongquan (李公佺)
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 175
• Destroyed yajiun
  Massacre · Director
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passages 193-195
• Joint attack on yamen guard
  AD 906 是月十四日夜 · Military · Commander · With Ma Cixun (馬嗣勳)
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passages 185-187
• Massacre of yamen guard and clans
  Military · Commander · At yamen city 牙城
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passages 186-187
• Plotted to destroy yamen guard
  Political · Conspirator · With Quanzhong (全忠)
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passages 177, 182

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment among those who succeeded well in governing (Luo house son) · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 203
• Assessment intelligent and quick-witted; skilled in administration · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 191
• Assessment intensely loved Luo Yin's writings · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 197
• Item library of ten thousand scrolls 書至萬卷 · Relation Possessed
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 192