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Wang Mang
王莽 zh 왕망 ko
Han dynasty official and founding Emperor of the Xin Dynasty (c.45 BC-23 AD)
- Child of Wang Man and Wang Qu
- Married to Empress Wang, Empress Shi
- Dated c. 45 BCE – 6 October 23 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Offices held 1
- 10 January 9 CE – 6 October 23 CE Emperor of China jurisdiction: Xin dynasty Succeeded by Emperor Gengshi of Han
Family
The family of Wang Mang
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 14
Family 14
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (father) Wang Man one of imperial family in ancient China, father of Wang Mang
- child of (mother) Wang Qu
- of the house Xin dynasty The dynasty declared by Wang Mang during his rule over imperial China during AD 9-23
- parent of (child) Empress Wang 1st century AD Chinese empress, daughter of emperor Wang Mang
- parent of (child) Wang An Chinese nobleman, son of Wang Mang
- parent of (child) Wang Huo Chinese nobleman, son of Wang Mang
- parent of (child) Wang Jie Chinese noblewoman, daughter of Wang Mang
- parent of (child) Wang Kuang Chinese nobleman, son of Wang Mang
- parent of (child) Wang Lin Chinese nobleman, son of Wang Mang
- parent of (child) Wang Xing son of Wang Mang
- parent of (child) Wang Ye Chinese noblewoman, daughter of Wang Mang
- parent of (child) Wang Yu Chinese nobleman, son of Wang Mang
- married to Empress Shi Spouse of Chinese Xin Dynasty emperor Wang Mang
- married to Empress Wang early 1st century AD Chinese noblewoman and empress during Xin dynasty
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
16 statements on this record
- 16 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 4 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms lead image of the English Wikipedia article
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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