Qin and Han · Official and Scholar

Wang Zhongweng 王仲翁

Attested BC 74 - BC 68

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wang Zhongweng was an official and Scholar.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 74 to BC 68 三歲間，仲翁至光祿大夫、給事中
Strongly inferred · Book of Han 89, passage 15

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 89Volume 78: Xiao Wangzhi · 4 passages

是時，大將軍霍光秉政，長史丙吉薦儒生王仲翁與望之等數人，皆召見。 While the great general Huo Guang governed, chief clerk Bing Ji nominated the scholar Wang Zhongweng along with Wangzhi and others; they were all called in.

於是光獨不除用望之，而仲翁等皆補大將軍史。 Huo Guang therefore passed Wangzhi over while Wang Zhongweng and the others became secretaries on his staff.

三歲間，仲翁至光祿大夫、給事中，望之以射策甲科為郎，署小苑東門候。 In three years Zhongweng rose to grand counselor of the palace and attendant at the inner gates; Wangzhi, having topped the graded policy exam, was made a gentleman and assigned to the eastern gatehouse of the Lesser Park.

仲翁出入從倉頭廬兒，下車趨門，傳呼甚寵，顧謂望之曰：「不肯錄錄，反抱關為？」 Zhongweng traveled with a train of grooms and runners, sprang from his carriage at the gate, and had heralds clear the way in style; glancing at Wangzhi he sneered, "So you would not bend the knee—and now you hug the gate?"