Wáng Yuánguī 王元規
Zì Zhèngfàn 正範. Native of Tàiyuán Jìnyáng 太原晉陽 (modern Tàiyuán 太原, Shānxī). His family settled at Línhǎi 臨海 (Zhèjiāng) during the Southern dynasties; he studied at Wúxīng 吳興 under 沈文阿 Shěn Wén’ā and is said to have mastered the classics by the age of eighteen. He held a succession of academic and capital-province posts under the Chén 陳 dynasty (557–589), rising to guózǐ jì jiǔ 國子祭酒 (Chancellor of the Imperial Academy); he was one of the principal exegetes at the Chén court alongside Zhōu Hóngzhèng 周弘正 and Zhāng Jī 張譏.
Wáng’s writings, recorded in the Chén shū 陳書 biography (juàn 33, Rúlín liè zhuàn) and Suí shū jīngjí zhì 隋書經籍志, ran to:
- Chūnqiū fātící jí yìlüè 春秋發題辭及義略, 11 juàn — the Zuǒzhuàn commentary continuing his teacher’s lost Chūnqiū Zuǒshì zhuàn yìlüè 春秋左氏傳義略 (cf. KR1e0125).
- Xù jīngdiǎn dàyì 續經典大義, 14 juàn — continuation of 沈文阿 Shěn Wén’ā’s Jīngdiǎn dàyì 經典大義.
- Zuǒzhuàn yīn 左傳音, 3 juàn (a yīn 音 commentary; cf. parallel works of 徐邈).
- Lǐjì yīn 禮記音, 2 juàn.
- Xiàojīng yìjì 孝經義記, 2 juàn.
All are lost as integral books; fragmentary citations survive in 陸德明 Lù Démíng’s Jīngdiǎn shìwén 經典釋文 and in the Táng zhèngyì 正義 sub-commentaries — the basis of the Yùhán shānfáng jíyì shū and CHANT reconstructions, of which KR1e0125 is one. The Chén-dynasty Confucian curriculum, in which Wáng was a central figure, is the principal transmission-line carrying late-southern Liáng-Chén Zuǒzhuàn and Lǐ learning into the Suí–Táng synthesis represented by Lù Démíng and Kǒng Yǐngdá.