Wang Suk

A Chinese policy maker and scholar from the Three Kingdoms Wei dynasty. His courtesy name was Ziyong. He was the son of Wang Lang (?-228), a high-ranking official from Tan, Donghai County (Tancheng County, Shandong Province). He often submitted political views and was involved in court ceremonies, and served as the Minister of State, Taichang, and Central Commander in the Cao Wei government, and was posthumously awarded the title of General of Wei. Sima Zhao (Emperor Wen) of the Jin dynasty was his son-in-law. He studied under Song Zhong of Jingzhou, and was an expert in the learning of Jia Kui and Ma Rong in the early Eastern Han dynasty. He proposed a new theory on the state ceremonies (various systems), which was adopted in the following Jin dynasty. He wrote commentaries on such works as "Zhouyi," "Mao Shi," "Sanrai," "San Chun Qiu," "Kokugo," and others, and opposed the theories of the great Confucian scholar of the time, Zheng Xuan, and his senior disciple Sun Yan. He cited and refuted "Confucius Family Language," which he claimed to have created himself, in the 12 volumes of "Shengsheng Lun." From then on, throughout the Six Dynasties period, he sparked a debate between the Zheng and Wang theories on the history of classical Chinese.

[Yoshiro Togawa January 19, 2016]

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中国、三国魏(ぎ)の政策家、学者。字(あざな)は子雍(しよう)。東海郡郯(たん)（山東省郯城県）出身の高官王朗(おうろう)（？―228）の子。しばしば政見を上奏して朝儀に関与し、曹(そう)魏政府の侍中(じちゅう)、太常(たいじょう)、中領軍を歴任、衛(えい)将軍を追贈された。晋(しん)の司馬昭(しばしょう)（文帝）はその女婿(じょせい)。荊州(けいしゅう)の宋忠(そうちゅう)に師事し、後漢(ごかん)前期の賈逵(かき)・馬融(ばゆう)の学に長じ、国家の礼制（諸制度）に新説を提唱し、次の晋代に採用された。『周易(しゅうえき)』『毛詩(もうし)』『三礼(さんらい)』『春秋(しゅんじゅう)三伝』『国語(こくご)』などに注釈し、当時の大儒鄭玄(じょうげん)やその高弟孫炎(そんえん)の学説に反対し、自らが擬作したという『孔子家語(けご)』を引証しては論駁(ろんばく)したのを『聖証論(せいしょうろん)』12巻にまとめた。以後、六朝(りくちょう)期を通じて、経学史のうえで鄭・王両説の論争を引き起こした。

［戸川芳郎　2016年1月19日］

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