Five Dynasties · Son and dynastic heir of Wang Rong

Wang Zhaohui 王昭誨

Attested AD 911 - AD 931

Passages: 9
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Wang Zhaohui was a Son and dynastic heir of Wang Rong.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Religious name	Chongyin	崇隱	Chongyin

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 911 天祐八年
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 54, passage 85
AD 931 長興二年
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 42, passage 123

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Betrothed to Daughter of Emperor Zhuangzong (莊宗女)
promised in marriage 許女妻 · Betrothal · AD 911 天祐八年
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 54, passage 85
Child of Wang Rong (王鎔)
son 男 · AD 931 長興二年
second son 次子
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 42, passage 123; Old History of the Five Dynasties 54, passages 85, 118
Spouse of Daughter of Fu Xi (符習女)
wife 妻
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 54, passage 126

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Director of the Palace Workshops 少府監
AD 954 to AD 960 周顯德中 · Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 54, passage 127
Court Discussant; Vice Director of Agriculture 朝議大夫、司農少卿
AD 931 長興二年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 42, passage 123
Grand Master for Discussion, Honorary Director of Merit, Vice Minister of Agriculture 朝議大夫、檢校考功郎中、司農少卿
Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 54, passage 125

Events and relationships

Appointed to continue Wang Rong's extinct line
AD 931 長興二年 · Dynastic succession · Heir · With Wang Rong (王鎔)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 42, passage 123
Hidden and sent to Hunan
AD 911 天祐八年 · Escape · Subject
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 54, passages 119-120

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 54, passage 85
From Zhaohui 昭誨 · To Chongyin 崇隱 · Context as monk
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 54, passage 123

References in the histories

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History

9 passages

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 42Volume 42 Book of Later Tang 18: Mingzong Annals 8 · 1 passage

以故鎮州節度使、趙王王熔男昭誨為朝議大夫、司農少卿，賜紫金魚袋，繼絕也。 Wang Rong's son Zhaohui, heir to the extinct Prince of Zhao line, became court discussant and vice director of agriculture with a purple-gold fish bag.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 54Volume 54 Book of Later Tang 30: Biographies 6: Wang Rong, Wang Zhaohui, Wang Chuzhi · 8 passages

中飲，莊宗抽佩刀斷衿為盟，許女妻鎔子昭誨。 Mid-feast Zhuangzong drew his sword and severed his collar in alliance, promising his daughter in marriage to Rong's son Zhaohui.

次子昭誨。 His second son was Zhaohui.

當鎔被禍之夕，昭誨為軍人攜出府第，置之地穴十餘日，乃髡其發，被以僧衣。 On the night Rong was killed, soldiers carried Zhaohui out of the mansion, hid him in an underground pit for more than ten days, then shaved his head and dressed him in monk's robes.

屬湖南綱官李震南還，軍士以昭誨托於震，震置之茶褚中。 When Li Zhen, transport officer for Hunan, was returning south, the soldiers entrusted Zhaohui to him, and Zhen hid him in a tea crate.

既至湖湘，乃令依南嶽寺僧習業，歲給其費。 Once he reached Hunan he had Zhaohui study under the monks of Nanyue Temple and provided his expenses each year.

昭誨年長思歸，震即齎送而還。 When Zhaohui grew older and longed to return home, Zhen escorted him back.

時鎔故將符習為汴州節度使，會昭誨來投，即表其事曰：「故趙王王鎔小男昭誨，年十餘歲遇禍，為人所匿免，今尚為僧，名崇隱，謹令赴闕。」 At that time Rong's former general Fu Xi was military governor of Bianzhou. When Zhaohui came to seek refuge, he memorialized: "The late Prince of Zhao Wang Rong's younger son Zhaohui, barely in his teens when disaster struck, was hidden and spared. He is still a monk named Chongyin, and I respectfully send him to court."

頃之，昭誨稱前成德軍中軍使、檢校太傅，詣中書陳狀，特授朝議大夫、檢校考功郎中、司農少卿，賜金紫。 Before long Zhaohui claimed his former title of central army commander of the Chengde army and Honorary Grand Mentor, petitioned the Secretariat, and was specially appointed Grand Master for Discussion, Honorary Director of the Bureau of Merit, and Vice Minister of Agriculture, with gold and purple robes.