Mao Wenxi (毛文錫), courtesy name Pinggui (平珪), was an official of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period Former Shu state, serving as the director of palace communications (Shumishi).
His family was originally from Gaoyang (高陽, in modern Baoding, Hebei), although he was probably not born there, as his father Mao Guifan (毛龜範) served as the minister of husbandry for the Tang dynasty imperial government.
[1] Sometime during Wang Jian's reign as emperor of Former Shu, Mao Wenxi became the chief imperial scholar (翰林學士承旨, Hanlin Xueshi Chengzhi).
Mao urged against the plan, stating:[3] Gao Jichang [(the Later Liang military governor of Jingnan)] is the one who refuses to obey Your Imperial Majesty.
[5][6] Mao appeared to have done the latter, for he was described to have served under Meng Zhixiang, the Later Tang military governor of Xichuan Circuit (西川, headquartered in modern Chengdu), who would eventually the founding emperor of an independent state of Later Shu.