Wang Yanjun
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| Reign | January 14, 927 (de facto) or August 13, 928 (as Prince of Min) or 933 (as Emperor of Min) – November 17, 935 |
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| Born | unknown | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | November 17, 935 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Dynasty | Min | ||||||||||||||||
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| Lóngqǐ (龍啟) (933-934) Yǒnghé (永和) (935) |
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| Emperor Qísù Míngxiào (齊肅明孝皇帝) (full) | |
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| Huìzōng (惠宗) |
Wang Yanjun (王延鈞) (d. November 17, 935), known as Wang Lin (王鏻 or 王璘) from 933 to 935, formally Emperor Huizong of Min (閩惠宗), used the name of Xuanxi (玄錫) while briefly being a Taoist monk, was the third ruler of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms state Min, and the first ruler of Min to use the title of emperor.
It is not known when Wang Yanjun was born. He was the second biological son of his father Wang Shenzhi, the first ruler of the Wang clan to use the title of Prince of Min. His mother was Wang Shenzhi's concubine Lady Huang.
The first historical reference to Wang Yanjun was in 917, when his father Wang Shenzhi, who was then carrying the title of Prince of Min as a Later Liang vassal, had him marry the Southern Han princess Lady Liu Hua, the Princess Qingyuan. (The traditional account in the Zizhi Tongjian described Liu Hua as the daughter of Southern Han's first emperor Liu Yan (Emperor Gaozu), but her tombstone, since discovered, indicated that she was the daughter of Liu Yan's older brother Liu Yin. At that time, Wang Yanjun was serving as a commander of his father's headquarter guards.
No further historical references were made to Wang Yanjun until after his father Wang Shenzhi died in 925—at which time his older brother Wang Yanhan took over the reigns of the Min realm, initially only claiming the title of acting military governor of Weiwu Circuit (威武)—i.e., the Tang Dynasty circuit that formed Min territory—as a vassal to Later Liang's successor Later Tang. (Wang Yanhan claimed the title of King of Min in 926 without Later Tang imperial sanction, effectively declaring himself independent of Later Tang.) It was said that several months after Wang Yanhan's succession that he, who did not treat his brothers well, sent Wang Yanjun out of the capital Changle (長樂, in modern Fuzhou, Fujian) to serve as the prefect of Quan Prefecture (泉州, in modern Quanzhou, Fujian). Further, Wang Yanhan carried out incessant selections of women to become his concubines and servants in his palace; when both Wang Yanjun and an adoptive brother, Wang Yanbing (who was older than Wang Yanjun) the prefect of Jian Prefecture (建州, in modern Nanping, Fujian) submitted petitions urging him to change his behavior, he became angry, and therefore his relationship with these two brothers deteriorated.
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