Song, Liao, and Jin · Right Assistant Director

Wang Anli 王安禮

Attested AD 1069 - AD 1111

Passages: 3
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Wang Anli was a Right Assistant Director.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1082 元豐五年正月
Directly stated · History of Song 80, passage 277
AD 1069 to AD 1111 熙寧二年後
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 120, passages 137, 145, 148

Key source chapters

History of Song, Chapter 120 Volume 120 Treatises 73: Rites 23 2 passages
History of Song, Chapter 80 Volume 80 Treatises 33: Measures and Calendar 13 1 passage

Career and standing

Academician-Expositor / Hanlin Academician 翰林學士
AD 1082 元豐五年正月 · Held
Directly stated · History of Song 80, passage 277
Right Assistant Director 右丞
Held
Directly stated · History of Song 120, passage 145
Denounced
Under investigation request · Authority Censorate 御史台
Directly stated · History of Song 120, passages 145, 147

Places and affiliations

Polity Song 宋 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · History of Song 120, passage 145

Works and attributed material

Memorial · Author · Direct quotation
Directly stated · History of Song 80, passages 277-278
Speech · Speaker · Paraphrased
Directly stated · History of Song 120, passage 148

Events and relationships

Argued before emperor for equal treatment of Assistant Directors
Political · Advocate
Directly stated · History of Song 120, passages 148-149
Dismounted at main hall congratulating Vice Director
Ritual · Participant
Directly stated · History of Song 120, passage 145
Requested rebuild of clepsydra
AD 1082 元豐五年正月 · Petition · Petitioner
Directly stated · History of Song 80, passages 277-279

References in the histories

History of Song, Chapter 80Volume 80 Treatises 33: Measures and Calendar 13 · 1 passage

元豐五年正月，翰林學士王安禮言：「詳定渾儀官歐陽發所上渾儀、浮漏木樣，具新器之宜，變舊器之失，臣等竊詳司天監浮漏，疏謬不可用，請依新式改造。 In the first month of the fifth year of Yuanfeng, Academician-Expositor Wang Anli reported: "Ouyang Fa, officer charged with determining the armillary sphere, has submitted wooden models of the armillary sphere and clepsydra that show what the new instruments should do and remedy what the old ones got wrong. We find the Directorate's clepsydra coarse and unreliable and ask that it be rebuilt to the new design.

History of Song, Chapter 120Volume 120 Treatises 73: Rites 23 · 2 passages

御史台言：「左丞蒲宗孟、右丞王安禮賀僕射上尚書省，於都堂下馬。 The Censorate reported: 'Left Assistant Director Pu Zongmeng and Right Assistant Director Wang Anli congratulated the Vice Director at the Department and dismounted at the main hall.

安禮爭論上前，以為今日置左、右丞為執政官，不應有厚薄。 Wang Anli argued before the emperor that Assistant Directors were now chief executive officials and should not be treated unequally.