Overview
Wei was an administrator and Poet.
Life and dates
Attested activity
- AD 907 to AD 910 仕梁數年Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 181, passages 199-201, 203, 205
Family
- Kin of Luo Yin (羅隱)uncle 叔父 · Claimed parentage · paternal lineDirectly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 203
Origins and identity
- shared clan surname with Luo Yin 宗姓Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 203
Places and affiliations
- At Ye 鄴 · Relation Associated withDirectly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 205
Learning and skills
- Belief Confucian learning 儒術 · Relation Adherent ofDirectly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 200
- Skill poetry composition 賦詠 · Level practiced with eleganceDirectly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 201
- Skill administrative practice 吏道 · Level thoroughly versedDirectly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 199
Works and attributed material
- Collected Poems Stolen from Jiangdong 偷江東集Relation AuthorDirectly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 205
- Collected Poems Stolen from Jiangdong 偷江東集Relation Author · Quantity Volumes: 5Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 205
- Character sketch · SubjectDirectly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passages 199-201, 203-205
- Encomium · Subject · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passages 212-215
- Historian judgment · Subject · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passages 206-211
Events and relationships
- Composed poetry with guests and staff on spring and moonlit eveningsScholarly · HostDirectly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 201
- Received collected poemsDirectly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 204
- Recruited literary menScholarly · PatronDirectly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 200
- Sent envoys with gifts and claimed shared clan tiesDirectly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 203
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment among those who succeeded well in succession; one of the two sons of the Shi and Luo houses held up as exemplars · Mode historian-judgmentStrongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 211
- Assessment passionately fond of Luo Yin's poetry · With Luo Yin (羅隱) · Mode narrativeDirectly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 205
- quick-witted and keenly perceptiveCharacterDirectly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 199
- Item library of ten thousand scrolls 書至萬卷 · Relation OwnedDirectly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 200