Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Bamboo Grove Sage and Official

Wang Rong 王戎

Wáng Róng

Attested AD 426 - AD 433

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wang Rong was a Bamboo Grove Sage and Official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 426 to AD 433 元嘉三年後五君詠
Dated from the passage context · Book of Song 73, passages 41, 46

Works and attributed material

Odes to the Five Lords 五君詠
Relation Deliberately omitted · Reason wealth and rank
Directly stated · Book of Song 73, passage 46

References in the histories

Book of Song, Chapter 73Volume 73 Biographies 33: Yan Yanzhi · 1 passage

延之甚怨憤，乃作五君詠以述竹林七賢，山濤、王戎以貴顯被黜，詠嵇康曰：「鸞翮有時鎩，龍性誰能馴。」 Burning with resentment, Yanzhi wrote his Odes to the Five Lords about the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, leaving out Shan Tao and Wang Rong as men who had risen to wealth and rank. Of Ji Kang he wrote: "A phoenix wing may be clipped in its season—who can tame a dragon's nature?"