Wáng Míngqīng 王明清 (b. 1127, fl. through 1214; zì Zhòngyán 仲言), native of Rǔyīn 汝陰 (modern Ānhuī, Fùyáng); son of 王銍 Wáng Zhì 王銍 (the Mòjì author and Xuěxī jí poet) and grandson of Wáng Píngzhī 王萍之. Wáng Míngqīng’s life spans the entire Southern Sòng from the Jìngkāng catastrophe of his birth-year (the fall of the Northern capital and the Jūrchen abduction of Huīzōng and Qīnzōng) through the Qìngyuán (1195–1200) and into the Jiādìng (1208–1224) reign — he was still living in Jiādìng 7 (1214) per the internal date reference in his Tóuxiá lù KR3l0064. He served as tōngpàn (assistant prefect) of Tàizhōu 泰州 in Qìngyuán 1 (1195) — at that date the Shílùyuàn of the Southern-Sòng court formally requisitioned his Huīchén qiánhòu lù manuscripts for use in compiling the Gāozōng shílù, an extraordinary mark of official recognition for a private bǐjì.
Wáng’s three surviving works are all in the xiǎoshuō / bǐjì tradition: KR3l0062 Huīchén lù 揮塵錄 (20 juàn in four parts — qiánlù 前錄, hòulù 後錄, sānlù 三錄, yúhuà 餘話 — composed across c. 1166–1194 and the most substantial of his works); KR3l0063 Yùzhào xīnzhì 玉照新志 (6 juàn, c. 1194–1202); and KR3l0064 Tóuxiá lù 投轄錄 (1 juàn, late-life zhìguài anecdote collection). His position in Southern-Sòng historiography is exceptional: as the son of Wáng Zhì he inherited his father’s vast archive of Northern-Sòng court material and xiāngxián documents; as a long-lived bǐjì compiler he transmitted that archive together with his own Shàoxīng and post-Shàoxīng observation into a continuous record running from the Tàizǔ foundation through the early Jiādìng — a chronological reach paralleled by few Sòng private historians. The Sòng shǐ gives him no formal biography, but his works are quoted constantly in the Sòng shǐ itself, in Jiànyán yǐlái xìnián yàolù of Lǐ Xīnchuán 李心傳, and in the standard Southern-Sòng compendia. Modern Sòng historiography treats the Huīchén lù as one of the four or five indispensable private histories for the Huīzōng — Gāozōng — Xiàozōng — Guāngzōng succession (alongside Lǐ Xīnchuán’s Yàolù, Xú Mèngshēn’s KR3a0035 Sāncháo běiméng huìbiān, Yuè Kē’s Tīngshǐ, and Zhōu Mì’s KR3l0079 Qídōng yěyǔ).
CBDB id 7085. CBDB records birth year 1127 but no death year; the Tóuxiá lù internal reference to Jiādìng 7 (1214) puts his minimum death year at 88 suì.