King Ling of Zhou

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During the Tang dynasty the Li family of Zhaojun 赵郡李氏, the Cui family of Boling 博陵崔氏, the Cui family of Qinghe 清河崔氏, the Lu family of Fanyang 范陽盧氏, the Zheng family of Xingyang 荥阳郑氏, the Wang family of Taiyuan 太原王氏, and the Li family of Longxi 隴西李氏 were the seven noble families among whom marriage was banned by law.

http://history.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/slides/Dissertation.pdf

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p. 67. Moriya Mitsuo wrote a history of the Later Han-Tang period of the Taiyuan Wang. Among the strongest families was the Taiyuan Wang.

{{cite book|title=A Zürcher (Milchfecker): Eine nicht alltägliche Stimme aus der Emmentaler-Käsereipraxis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vs8UAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA351|year=1830|publisher=Brill Archive|pages=351–|id=GGKEY:WD42J45TCZZ}}

The prohibition on marriage between the clans issued in 659 by the Gaozong Emperor was flouted by the seven families since a woman of the Boling Cui married a member of the Taiyuan Wang, giving birth to the poet Wang Wei.

{{cite book|author1=Wei Wang|author2=Tony Barnstone|author3=Willis Barnstone |author4=Haixin Xu |title=Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Poems of Wang Wei

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DeXknnCh6XcC&dq=Taiyuan+wang+clan&pg=PR27

|year=1991|publisher=UPNE|isbn=978-0-87451-564-0|pages=xxvii–xxviii}}

He was the son of Wang Chulian who in turn was the son of Wang Zhou.

{{cite book|author=Jingqing Yang|title=The Chan Interpretations of Wang Wei's Poetry: A Critical Review

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yQsw57Ymb5oC&dq=Taiyuan+wang+clan&pg=PA16

|year=2007|publisher=Chinese University Press|isbn=978-962-996-232-6|pages=16–}}

The marriages between the families were performed clandestinely after the prohibition was implemented on the seven families by Gaozong.

{{cite book|title=A Study of Yuan Zhen's Life and Verse 809--810: Two Years that Shaped His Politics and Prosody

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yycr0r-OVcwC&dq=Taiyuan+wang+clan&pg=PA65

|year=2008|isbn=978-0-549-80334-8|pages=65–}}

The Zhou dynasty King Ling's son Prince Jin is assumed by most to be the ancestor of the Taiyuan Wang.

{{cite book|author=Ding Xiang Warner|title=A Wild Deer Amid Soaring Phoenixes: The Opposition Poetics of Wang Ji

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DzvtwHvhSDMC&dq=Taiyuan+wang+clan&pg=PA156

|year=2003|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-2669-7|pages=156–}}

The Longmen Wang were a cadet line of the Zhou dynasty descended Taiyuan Wang, and Wang Yan and his grandson Wang Tong hailed from this cadet line.

{{cite book|author=Ding Xiang Warner|title=Transmitting Authority: Wang Tong (ca. 584–617) and the Zhongshuo in Medieval China's Manuscript Culture

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mmi7AwAAQBAJ&dq=Taiyuan+wang+clan&pg=PA98

|date=15 May 2014|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-27633-8|pages=98–}}

Both Buddhist monks and scholars hailed from the Wang family of Taiyuan such as the monk Tanqian.

{{cite book|author=Jinhua Chen|title=Monks and monarchs, kinship and kingship: Tanqian in Sui Buddhism and politics

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=24kkAQAAIAAJ&q=Taiyuan+wang+clan

|year=2002|publisher=Scuola italiana di studi sull'Asia orientale|isbn=978-4-900793-21-7|pages=34, 36}}

The Wang family of Taiyuan included Wang Huan.

{{cite book|author=Oliver J. Moore|title=Rituals Of Recruitment In Tang China: Reading An Annual Programme In The Collected Statements By Wang Dingbao (870-940)

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vL42xGE3VB8C&dq=Taiyuan+wang+clan&pg=PA35

|date=1 January 2004|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-13937-0|pages=35–}}

Their status as "Seven Great surnames" became known during Gaozong's rule.

{{cite book|author=William H. Nienhauser|title=Tang Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hja49dTBtGkC&dq=Taiyuan+wang+clan&pg=PA78

|year=2010|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-4287-28-9|pages=78–}}

The Taiyuan Wang family produced Wang Jun who served under Emperor Huai of Jin.

{{cite book|author1=David R. Knechtges|author2=Taiping Chang|title=Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol.I): A Reference Guide, Part One

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mED9Vx10WokC&dq=Taiyuan+wang+clan&pg=PA544

|date=10 September 2010|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-19127-3|pages=544–}}

A Fuzhou based section of the Taiyuan Wang produced the Buddhist monk Baizhang.

{{cite book|author1=Steven Heine|author2=Dale Wright|title=Zen Masters

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_CxwAgAAQBAJ&dq=Taiyuan+wang+clan&pg=PA4

|date=22 April 2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-971008-9|pages=4–}}

• Qi Jiang, of the Jiang clan of Qi ({{lang|zh|齊姜 姜姓}}), possibly a daughter of Duke Ling of Qi; married in 558 BC

• First son, Crown Prince Jin ({{lang|zh|太子晉}}), the father of Zongjing ({{lang|zh|宗敬}}), who served as the Minister of Education of Zhou
• Prince Gui ({{lang|zh|王子貴}}; d. 520 BC), ruled as King Jĭng of Zhou from 544–520 BC
• Prince Ningfu ({{lang|zh|王子佞夫}}; d. 543 BC)

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• Family tree of ancient Chinese emperors

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