Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Student and Servant

Wang Yongxian 王永先

Wáng Yǒngxiān

First attested AD 483; died AD 484

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wang Yongxian was a Student and Servant.

Life and dates

Death

AD 484 明年
Suicide in prison
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 36, passage 106
Suicide · At prison 獄
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 36, passage 106

Attested activity

AD 484 明年
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 36, passage 104
AD 483 永明元年
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 36, passage 57

Events and relationships

Relation Student of · Person Xie Chaozong (謝超宗)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 36, passage 104

References in the histories

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 36Volume 36 Biographies 17: Xie Chaozong, Liu Xiang · 4 passages

:　　輙攝白從王永先到臺辨問「超宗有何罪過，詣諸貴皆有不遜言語，竝依事列對」。 Your servant sent clerk Wang Yongxian to examine "what crimes Chaozong had — visits to the great all involved insolent speech; let him answer item by item."

永先列稱：「主人超宗恒行來詣諸貴要，每多觸忤，言語怨懟。 Yongxian listed: "My master constantly visits the powerful; he often offends them with resentful, raging speech.

明年，超宗門生王永先又告超宗子才卿死罪二十餘條。 The next year his student Wang Yongxian reported his son Caiqing for more than twenty capital crimes.

永先於獄自盡。 Yongxian killed himself in prison.