Wang Fu

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• 敬堂 室名、別號
• 汪烜 别名、曾用名
• 燦人 字
• 雙池 字

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1. [1] Name, dates, status, and aliases Wang Fu lived from 1692 to 1759 and was a Qing-dynasty scholar. His original name was Xuan, his courtesy name was Canren, and his sobriquet was Shuangchi; Jingtang and Wang Xuan were also used as names. The biographical account calls Shuangchi a sobriquet, while the structured name classification also classifies it as a courtesy name. He was from Wuyuan in Anhui.
   • CBDBWang Fu (79191)The person record gives the Chinese and English names, the 1692–1759 lifespan, Qing affiliation, four additional names and their classifications, and Wuyuan as the basic place of origin.
   • Souyun汪紱 (66231)The biographical entry and profile identify him as a Qing native of Anhui Wuyuan, give his dates, and name Xuan, Canren, and Shuangchi; the biography supplies the scholarly context.
   • WikidataWang Fu (Q11137057)The item label, date claims, Qing-dynasty description, and name entries independently correspond to Wang Fu, his lifespan, and the forms Jingtang, Wang Xuan, Canren, and Shuangchi.
2. [2] Early life and education Wang Fu was poor and self-taught, painted bowls for kiln workers in Jingdezhen, then supported himself by teaching in Pucheng, Fujian; his reputation spread through Zhejiang, Fujian, and Jiangxi. He held the status of shengyuan, or licentiate.
   • Souyun汪紱 (66231)The biography describes his poverty and self-education, bowl painting in Jingdezhen, move to Pucheng, livelihood as a teacher, and growing reputation in the three provinces.
   • CBDBWang Fu (79191)The educational entry identifies him as a shengyuan, or licentiate.
3. [3] Family His family included his great-great-grandfather, the fourth-generation ancestor 汪應蛟, his father 汪士極, his mother Jiang, his son 汪思謙, and his son-in-law 余熊照.
   • CBDBWang Fu (79191)The kinship entries identify 汪應蛟 as the great-great-grandfather or fourth-generation ancestor, 汪士極 as the father, Jiang as the mother, 汪思謙 as the son, and 余熊照 as the son-in-law.
4. [4] Students and posthumous textual work 余元遴 and 余元璘 were his students; 朱筠 personally composed the text for his tomb inscription, and 余克和 collated his writings.
   • CBDBWang Fu (79191)The relationship entries identify 余元遴 and 余元璘 as students, 朱筠 as the writer of the tomb text, and 余克和 as the person who collated the writings.
5. [5] Intellectual orientation His learning followed the Five Song Masters—Zhou Dunyi, Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, Zhang Zai, and Zhu Xi—while ranging widely without sufficient depth; he compared the views of other schools with “奸色淫聲.”
   • Souyun汪紱 (66231)The biography names the Five Song Masters, states that their learning was his guiding principle, characterizes his interests as broad but insufficiently deep, and gives the comparison from which the English rendering “immoral sights and licentious sounds” is taken.
6. [6] Collected works He wrote at least thirty other works in addition to the ten-juan Shuangchi wenji.
   • Souyun汪紱 (66231)The biography names the Shuangchi literary collection and says that his other writings numbered no fewer than thirty.
   • CBDBWang Fu (79191)The bibliographic entry gives the Shuangchi literary collection as ten juan and identifies Wang Fu as its author.
7. [7] Classical works The bibliographic entries list Zhouyi quanyi, Yijing ruhua, Shujing quanyi, Shijing quanyi, Sishu quanyi, Chunqiu jizhuan, Liji zhangju, and Liji huowen as works for which he is identified as author.
   • CBDBWang Fu (79191)Each of these eight bibliographic entries identifies Wang Fu as the author.
8. [8] Works across fields The bibliographic entries identify Yuejing lülü tongjie, Lixue fengyuan, Wuji tanbing, Wuqian, Yilin zuanyao tanyuan, and Lixuezhai qinpu as his works; their titles cover music and pitch, learning, military affairs, natural things, medicine, and qin studies.
   • CBDBWang Fu (79191)The six bibliographic entries identify him as author and, by their titles, extend across music and pitch, learning, military affairs, natural things, medicine, and qin studies.
9. [9] Variant titles and juan counts The bibliographic forms are not fully uniform: Zhouyi quanyi also appears as Yijing quanyi, with fourteen or fifteen juan; Shujing quanyi also appears as Shangshu quanyi; and four other works have the paired juan counts twelve and fifteen, thirty-eight and fifteen, eight and four, and three and two, respectively.
   • CBDBWang Fu (79191)The alternate bibliographic forms supply the differing titles and juan counts for Zhouyi quanyi/Yijing quanyi, Shujing quanyi/Shangshu quanyi, Shijing quanyi, Sishu quanyi, Liji huowen, and Du Kunzhi ji.