Ancient China · Named Individual

Wang Liang 王良

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wang Liang was a Named Individual.

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Strongly inferred · Book of Han 75, passage 156

Learning and skills

Skill charioteering 御 · Level exemplary
Strongly inferred · Book of Han 75, passage 156

Events and relationships

Named in Wang Bao rhapsody
Allusion · Exemplar driver · Mode quotation Speaker Wang Bao (王褒)
Directly stated · Book of Han 75, passage 156

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Directly stated · Book of Han 75, passage 156

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 75Volume 64b: Yan, Zhu, Wuqiu, Zhufu, Xu, Yan, Zhong, Wang, and Jia 2 · 1 passage

及至駕齧錾，驂乘旦，王良執靶，韓哀附輿，縱馳騁騖，忽如景靡，過都越國，蹶如歷塊； Yoke mettlesome steeds at dawn, put Wang Liang on the reins and Han Ai beside the box, and the team flies like a dissolving shadow past cities and through whole provinces as though each stride cleared a low hillock;