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Wang Lang
Han and Wei statesman from Donghai who lost Kuaiji to Sun Ce, later rose to minister of works and minister over the masses, and wrote commentaries on the classics
In a council hall, a long table holds an unrolled map scroll, a brass-cornered chest and a brush pot, with tall-backed chairs around it and a bronze lamp at the left; a figure stands with their back turned on the balcony at the right, with palace roofs beyond.
Also known as Zi Jingxing
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Wang Lang, courtesy name Jingxing, came from Tan in Donghai; learned in the classics, he became a court gentleman and county magistrate. Recommended by Tao Qian, governor of Xu province, he urged Tao to send tribute to the court at Chang'an, and was rewarded with the governorship of Kuaiji. When Sun Ce crossed the Yangtze he ignored Yu Fan's advice to withdraw, was defeated, fled by sea to Dongye and finally surrendered. Summoned by Cao Cao, he took more than a year to reach the court, and served the Wei kingdom as a governor and as minister of finance, rites and justice. Under Cao Pi he became minister of works and under Cao Rui minister over the masses. He died in 228, leaving commentaries on four classics. His granddaughter married Sima Zhao, and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms invented his death from Zhuge Liang's battlefield taunts.
Life and times
Dates Birth unknown–228 CE