Wáng Jiā 王嘉 (zì Sìzǐ 嗣子, hào Jiā 佳, fl. Kāngxī 康熙 era, Qiántáng 錢塘 / Hangzhou) — disciple of 高世栻 Gāo Shìzōng; principal editor of the posthumous Yīxué zhēnchuán 醫學真傳 (KR3er060), to which he supplied the publication preface dated Kāngxī jǐmǎo 康熙己卯 = 1699. Not in CBDB.
name: 王嘉 pinyinName: Wáng Jiā alternateNames: [子年, Zǐnián] dynasty: 前秦 birthDate: deathDate: 390 cbdbId: dilaAuthorityId: created: 2026-05-14 updated: 2026-05-14
Wáng Jiā 王嘉 (zì Zǐnián 子年, d. c. 390 CE) — LǒngxīĀnyáng 隴西安陽 native, Daoist fāngshì 方士 and recluse of the late Sixteen-Kingdoms era. Lived as a hermit on Mt. Dōngyáng 東陽 and later on Mt. Tán 倒虎山 west of Chángān, attracting disciples; summoned by Fú Jiān 苻堅 of the Former Qín 前秦 but withdrew before Fú Jiān’s fall (385); summoned again by Yáo Cháng 姚萇 of the HòuQín 後秦 and detained at court. Per Jìnshū 95 (Yìshù zhuàn 藝術傳), Yáo Cháng repeatedly consulted him on the campaign against HòuYān; when Wáng Jiā predicted that the army would not arrive “until after a long time” — and the army arrived almost immediately — Yáo Cháng executed him in anger, c. 390. Author of the Shíyí jì 拾遺記 (KR3l0098) in 19 juàn / 220 sections, the major zhìguài mythographic compendium of the late fourth century, lost in the wars of the Northern-and-Southern divide and reconstructed in 10 juàn by 蕭綺 in the Liáng. Catalog meta confused him with the Western-Hàn Imperial Counsellor 丞相 Wáng Jiā 王嘉 (zì Gōngzhòng, d. 2 BCE); the Sìkù 提要 to KR3l0098 explicitly corrects this. Not in CBDB.
This is a distinct historical figure from the Kāng-xī-era Hangzhou physician 王嘉 (zì Sìzǐ) treated in the entry above, and from the Western-Hàn 丞相 王嘉 (zì Gōngzhòng, d. 2 BCE), and from the Táng-period 王嘉 (CBDB 140127, 622–682) returned by CBDB queries — the HòuQín fāngshì author of the Shíyí jì is not in CBDB.