[5] Empress Wu Zetian claimed that her lover Zhang Changzong was a reincarnation of Ji Jin.

[6] Moriya Mitsuo wrote a history of the Later Han-Tang period of the Taiyuan Wang.

[7] The prohibition on marriage between the clans issued in 659 by the Gaozong Emperor was flouted by the seven families since a woman of the Boling Cui married a member of the Taiyuan Wang, giving birth to the poet Wang Wei.

[10] The Zhou dynasty King Ling's son Prince Jin is assumed by most to be the ancestor of the Taiyuan Wang.

[16] A Fuzhou based section of the Taiyuan Wang produced the Buddhist monk Baizhang.