王式 / Wang Shi (Changyi Teacher)

Overview

王式 / Wang Shi enters the wiki through Hanji 409 as 刘贺’s teacher, whose survival after the Changyi entourage punishment turns on whether teaching classics can count as remonstrance.

Current Profile

The episode presents Wang Shi as a narrow but important boundary case. He is not shown stopping Liu He, but he can answer the charge that he failed to admonish because his daily 《诗经》 instruction repeatedly highlighted loyal ministers, filial sons, and failed rulers. His tears and repeated explanation make teaching more than curriculum delivery: it becomes a record of attempted moral correction.

That profile distinguishes him from ordinary followers who merely accompanied Liu He into danger. Wang Shi survives because his role leaves a legible account of responsibility, even though the ruler-student did not change.

Key Characteristics

• Changyi teacher attached to Liu He before or during the failed accession.
• Classics instructor whose Shi jing teaching is presented as repeated moral warning.
• Failed adviser whose unsuccessful instruction still becomes legally and politically meaningful.
• Survivor of the Changyi entourage punishment because he can document fulfilled role duty.

Evidence

Teaching as admonition:

• Hanji 409 says Wang Shi is imprisoned with Liu He’s followers after the deposition.
• Hanji 409 says interrogators ask why he did not submit memorials to remonstrate with Liu He.
• Hanji 409 says Wang Shi answers that he taught the full Shi jing every morning and evening and emphasized loyal-minister, filial-son, and doomed-state passages with tears.
• Hanji 409 says officials report that answer upward and Wang Shi is spared death.

Qualifications

This page is source-scoped to Hanji 409. It does not reconstruct Wang Shi’s full biography, exact office, later career, or the full primary-source procedure around the Changyi entourage punishments.

What Changed

• Created the page to preserve Wang Shi as a distinct teacher-remonstrance case rather than folding him into Liu He’s general entourage.

Relationships

• 刘贺 - ruler-student whose failure makes Wang Shi’s teaching record politically consequential.
• 《诗经》 - classical text Wang Shi uses as indirect admonition.
• 霍光 - regent whose deposition of Liu He creates the punishment context in which Wang Shi must defend his role.