敬城王 / Jingcheng Wang

Overview

敬城王 / Jingcheng Wang enters the wiki as Hanji 388-4’s concrete example of Ming imperial-clan population expansion and administrative opacity.

Current Profile

The episode presents Jingcheng Wang less as an independent biographical subject than as evidence for 皇族宗藩财政负担. He is said to have had more than one hundred sons, to have presided over a household so large that brothers needed introduction at festival meals, and in 1508 to have asked the emperor to let princely offices report population counts because even he could not clearly know the family’s size.

Key Characteristics

• Ming royal-family figure used as an example of explosive imperial-clan reproduction.
• Household scale is presented as socially absurd and administratively hard to count.
• His 1508 memorial is used to show that princely population became a governance problem.
• The case connects private family growth with public fiscal burden because royal stipends came from tax revenue.

Evidence

• Household expansion: Hanji 388-4 says Jingcheng Wang had more than one hundred sons and that brothers needed introduction during festival meals.
• Population-count problem: Hanji 388-4 says that in Zhengde 3 / 1508 he petitioned for princely offices to check and report population numbers.
• Fiscal connection: Hanji 388-4 links such royal households to tax-funded stipends and provincial fiscal pressure.

Qualifications

The source gives Jingcheng Wang as a compact popular-history example. Exact genealogy, office title, memorial wording, household count, and fiscal accounting should remain source-scoped until supported by additional sources.

What Changed

• Created the entity from Hanji 388-4 as the episode’s named Ming imperial-clan example.

Relationships

• 明朝 - dynasty whose royal-household system frames the case.
• 皇族宗藩财政负担 - concept directly grounded by the Jingcheng Wang example.
• 身份编码式日常管制 - neighboring Ming social-order concept, though Jingcheng Wang’s case concerns stipend and kin population rather than dress or household status coding.