Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Filial Recluse

Wang Wenshu 王文殊

Wáng Wénshū

Attested AD 493

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wang Wenshu was a Filial Recluse.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 493 永明十一年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 2

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Father of Wang Wenshu (文殊父)
father 父
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 129

Career and standing

Merit Officer 功曹
Declined
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 130
false
Unmarried and without office by choice · Marriage false
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 133

Places and affiliations

At Guzhang, Wuxing · Relation Native of
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 2

References in the histories

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 55Volume 55 Biographies 36: Filial Piety · 4 passages

崔懷慎公孫僧遠吳欣之韓係伯孫淡華寶韓靈敏封延伯吳達之王文殊朱謙之蕭叡明樂頤江泌杜栖陸絳 Cui Huaishen, Gongsun Sengyuan, Wu Xinzhi, Han Xibo, Sun Dan, Hua Bao, Han Lingmin, Feng Yanbo, Wu Dazhi, Wang Wenshu, Zhu Qianzhi, Xiao Ruiming, Le Yi, Jiang Bi, Du Qi, and Lu Jiang

王文殊，吳興故鄣人也。 Wang Wenshu was from Guzhang in Wuxing.

父沒虜，文殊思慕泣血，蔬食山谷三十餘年。 His father died in the north. Wenshu mourned until he wept blood, eating only plain food in the hills for more than thirty years.

永明十一年，太守孔琇之表曰：「文殊性挺五常，心符三教。 In the eleventh year of Yongming Administrator Kong Xiuzhi wrote: "Wenshu's nature embodies the five constant virtues; his heart accords with the three teachings.