Wang Rong 王融

Other names

Family

• Descendant of Wang Sengda (王僧達)
  grandfather 祖 · paternal line · 2 generations
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 4
• Kin of Wang Jian (王儉)
  cousin 從叔
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 29
• Sibling of Wang Biao (王彪)
  elder brother 兄 · Full siblings
  Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 58
• Child of Wang Huan (王奐)
  father 父
  son 子
  Sources vary in certainty · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 58; Book of Southern Qi 36, passage 122
• Child of Wang Daoyan (王道琰)
  father 父
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 6
• Child of Mother of Wang Rong (王融母)
  mother 母 · maternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 7

Career and standing

• Secretariat official 中書
  Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passages 147, 150, 156
• Director of Guests 主客
  AD 493 十一年 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 98
• Acting Aide in the Law Section under the Prince of Jingling 竟陵王司徒板法曹行參軍
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 12
• Acting Aide to the Prince of Jin'an as Southern Commander-in-Chief 晉安王南中郎板行參軍
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 11
• Assistant Magistrate of Danyang 丹陽丞
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 30
• General Who Pacifies the North and army commander 寧朔將軍、軍主
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 142

Places and affiliations

• Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 266
• Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 49, passage 229; Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 144
• Polity Southern Qi 齊 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passages 127, 233
• Polity Name Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passages 13, 70
• At Langya 琅邪
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 36, passage 11
• At Linyi of Langya 琅邪臨沂
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 3

Learning and skills

• taught reading and writing by his mother 母教融書學
  Teacher Person Id Mother of Wang Rong (王融母)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 8
• Earned
  Credential Cultivated Talent / provincial graduate 秀才
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 10
• Skill literature 文學 · Level admired
  Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 130
• Skill literary quickness and talent 文敏才華 · Level noted
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 266
• Skill horsemanship 騎馬 · Level practiced
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 145
• Skill literary composition 文才 · Level renowned
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passages 9, 143

Works and attributed material

• Preface to the Winding Water Poems 曲水詩序
  AD 491 九年 · Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 97
• collected writings 文集
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 180
• Ode to Sweet Dew 甘露頌
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 167
• Silver Urn Memorial 銀甕啓
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 167
• Three-Day Poem Preface 三日詩序
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 167
• Words on Receiving Barbarian Envoys 接虜使語辭
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 167

Events and relationships

• Abandoned plan and returned to Secretariat
  AD 493 戊寅 · Political · Failed plotter
  Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 156
• blocked Eastern Palace guards to install Ziliang 欲立子良
  Political · Actor · Attempted enthronement · With Xiao Ziliang (蕭子良)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 148
• Blocked Eastern Palace guard at Secretariat gate
  AD 493 戊寅 · Military · Blocker · With Emperor Yulin (鬱林王)
  Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 150
• Died ambitions thwarted
  Life · Subject
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 270
• Gathered Jiangxi men
  Military · Recruiter
  Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 134
• Northern expedition painting project 掌漢武北伐圖事
  AD 493 永明末 · Cultural · Supervisor · Oversaw · With Mao Huixiu (毛惠秀)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 70

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment brilliant and ready to fly · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 269
• Assessment compared to the Duke of Zhou and Duke of Shao or to Shu Diao · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Emperor Wu of Liang (梁武帝)
  Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 148
• Assessment craved fame and achievement · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 71
• Assessment eloquent and quick at spontaneous composition · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 143
• Assessment no statesman; will fail · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Emperor Wu of Liang (梁武帝)
  Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 146
• Assessment of the company of Jia Yi and Zhong Jun · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 268

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 144