王凤 / Wang Feng (Western Han)

Overview

王凤 / Wang Feng enters the wiki through Hanji 544 as the Western Han Wang-family outer relative whose power makes criticism dangerous. The episode centers on the aftermath of 王章’s criticism and death, then uses 梅福’s memorial to frame Wang Feng as part of a larger outer-relative warning under 汉成帝.

Current Profile

The source presents Wang Feng less through policy and more through the court atmosphere around him. Wang Zhang’s criticism of Wang Feng becomes lethal, and that outcome leaves the court unwilling to speak openly. Mei Fu then names the resulting silence as a danger to the state, because powerful relatives can continue accumulating authority when correction channels are blocked.

Wang Feng also anchors the episode’s precedent logic. Mei Fu invokes earlier Lu, Huo, and Shangguan outer-relative dangers not merely to attack a person, but to argue that favored kin must be protected from their own overreach through instruction, restraint, and balanced power.

Key Characteristics

• Western Han outer-relative powerholder in Chengdi’s court.
• Target of Wang Zhang’s criticism.
• Associated in the source with Wang Zhang’s death and the resulting silence.
• Serves as the immediate Wang-family example behind Mei Fu’s broader outer-relative warning.

Evidence

• Criticism target: Hanji 544 says Wang Zhang had criticized Wang Feng.
• Punitive consequence: Hanji 544 says Wang Zhang was later killed by Wang Feng.
• Outer-relative warning: Hanji 544 has Mei Fu use Wang Feng’s power field to warn Chengdi against unconstrained in-law authority.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 544. It does not yet synthesize Wang Feng’s full regency, family position, office history, policy role, or relationship to other Wang-family actors such as 王根 and 王莽.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 544’s Wang Feng criticism, Wang Zhang death, and outer-relative warning field.

Relationships

• 汉成帝 - ruler whose court contains Wang Feng’s outer-relative power.
• 王章 - critic whose death is attached to Wang Feng in the source.
• 梅福 - memorialist who warns against Wang Feng’s power field.
• 外戚预防性约束 - prevention concept sharpened by Wang Feng’s case.
• 外戚专权与清算 - downstream court-power field Wang Feng foreshadows.
• 王根 - later Wang-family powerholder in the same late-Chengdi sequence.