Wang Jipeng
| Wáng Jìpéng (王繼鵬) / Wáng Chǎng (王昶) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Emperor of Min | |||||||||||||||||
| Emperor of Min | |||||||||||||||||
| Reign | November 18, 935 - August 29, 939? | ||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Wang Yanjun | ||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Wang Yanxi | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | August 29, 939 Fuzhou |
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| Wife Empress |
Lady Li Empress Li Chunyan |
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| Issue | Unknown number of sons | ||||||||||||||||
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| Father | Wang Yanjun | ||||||||||||||||
| Mother | Possibly Lady Liu Hua | ||||||||||||||||
| Full name | |
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| Wáng Jìpéng (王繼鵬) / Wáng Chǎng (王昶) | |
| Era name and dates | |
| Tóngwéng (通文): 936 - August 29, 939 | |
| Posthumous name | |
| Emperor Shengshen Yingrui Wenming Guangwu Yingdao Dahong (神聖英睿文明廣武應道大弘孝皇帝) | |
| Temple name | |
| Kāngzōng (康宗) |
Wang Jipeng (王繼鵬) (d. August 29, 939), used the name Wang Chang (王昶) from 935 to 939, formally Emperor Kangzong of Min (閩康宗), was an emperor of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Min. He inherited the throne after his father Wang Yanjun (Emperor Huizong, later also known as Wang Lin) was assassinated, possibly at his instigation. He himself was in turn killed in a coup headed by his uncle Wang Yanxi (Emperor Jingzong, later also known as Wang Xi), who succeeded him.
It is not known when Wang Jipeng was born. Traditionally sources indicated that he was the oldest son of his father Wang Yanjun (later known as Wang Lin during reign), but the tombstone of Wang Yanjun's first wife, Lady Liu Hua, indicated that he was Wang Yanjun's second son, with one older brother Wang Jiyan (王繼嚴) and two younger brothers (at the time of Lady Liu's death in 930), Wang Jitao (王繼韜), and Wang Jigong (王繼恭). (The Spring and Autumn Annals of the Ten Kingdoms listed another younger brother, Wang Jirong (王繼鎔), who might have been born after Lady Liu's death.) At some point (may be before or during Wang Yanjun's reign), Wang Jipeng married his cousin Lady Li, the daughter of a sister of his father's and her husband, the official Li Min (李敏).
As of 926, the Min state was ruled by Wang Jipeng's uncle Wang Yanhan. Around the new year 927, Wang Jipeng's father Wang Yanjun, and an adoptive brother of his (Wang Jipeng's uncle), Wang Yanbing, jointly overthrew Wang Yanhan, and Wang Yanbing then supported Wang Yanjun in taking over the Min realm, although he took no princely or higher title at the time, instead formally submitting to Later Tang as a vassal, using the title of acting military governor of Weiwu Circuit (威武, headquartered at Min's capital Fuzhou). Wang Yanjun later was created the Prince of Min by Later Tang's emperor Li Siyuan in 928,
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