Bao Xuan (寶玄) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Bao Xuan as an administrator, general, rebel, and royal family member. This record brings together 13 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Bao Xuan	寶玄	Bao Xuan
Personal name	Bao Xuan	寶玄	Bao Xuan
Personal	Bao Xuan	寶玄	Bǎo Xuán
Title	Jiangxia	江夏	Jiangxia
Title	Prince of Jiangxia	江夏王
Title	Prince of Jiangxia	江夏
Title	Prince of Jiangxia	江夏王	Jiangxia Wang
Title	Prince of Xia	夏王
Courtesy name	Zhishen	智深	Zhishen

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liangshu:023:s0018
Sex: male
Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0234, nanqishu:050:s0007

Roles

Administrator
General
Rebel
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Death

Manner: executed · Authority Person Id: Xiao Baojuan (蕭寶卷)
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0040

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 建武元年 · Western Year: AD 494
Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:050:s0100
Source Date: Text: 東昏 · Western Year: AD 499
Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:047:s0234
Source Date: Text: 永元二年 · Western Year: AD 500
Explicit · liangshu:023:s0018, liangshu:023:s0016
Source Date: Text: 永元元年 · Western Year: AD 499
Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:050:s0100

Family

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Child of Empress Jing (敬皇后)
Kinship Term: bore / 生 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Spouse of Daughter of Xu Xiaosi (徐孝嗣女)
Kinship Term: consort / 妃 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Relationship State: ended
Child of Emperor Ming of Southern Qi (明帝)
Kinship Term: third son / 第三子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 3

Kinship Role: junior-consorts · Count: 2
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0031

Career and standing

Label: General Who Conquers the Barbarians / 征虜將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建武元年 · Western Year: AD 494
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0100
Label: General of the Chariots and Cavalry / Governor of Southern Xu and Yan / 車騎將軍、南徐兖二州刺史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永元元年 · Western Year: AD 499
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0104
Label: General of the Van / 前將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永泰元年 · Western Year: AD 498
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0102
Label: Bearer of Credentials / Area Commander / General of the West / Governor of E / 持節、都督郢司二州軍事、西中郎將、郢州刺史 · Action: appointed
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0101
Label: General Who Guards the Army / 鎮軍將軍 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 東昏卽位 · Western Year: AD 498
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0103
Title: Prince of Jiangxia / 江夏郡王 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建武元年 · Western Year: AD 494
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0100
Title: Prince of Jiangxia / 江夏王 · Action: held
Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0234

Places and affiliations

Polity: Southern Qi / 南齊 · Relation: member-of
Strongly inferred · nanqishu:047:s0234
Place: Stone City / 石頭 · Relation: garrisoned
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0100
Organization: Southern Qi / 南齊 · Relation: affiliated-with
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0001

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: actor · Action: beheaded-envoys · Other Person Id: Cui Huijing (崔慧景)
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0033
Kind: military · Role: leader · Action: entered-capital-with-rebels · Place: Eastern City / 東城 · Other Person Id: Cui Huijing (崔慧景)
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0036
Kind: military · Role: colluder · Action: opened-gates-to-rebels · Other Person Id: Cui Huijing (崔慧景) · Killed Person Ids: Kong Jin (孔矜), Lu Chengxu (呂承緒), Qi Ping (戚平), Huang Linfu (黃林夫)
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0035
Kind: political · Role: plotter · Action: secretly-plotted-rebellion · Cause: resentment over consort separation
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0031
Kind: legal · Role: prisoner · Action: summoned-and-humiliated-then-executed · Other Person Id: Xiao Baojuan (蕭寶卷)
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0039, nanqishu:050:s0040
Relation: replaced · Person Id: Xiao Baoyi (蕭寶義) · Role: successor-in-office
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0104

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: took up arms of his own accord and welcomed ruin of his house · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0071, nanqishu:050:s0072

References in the histories

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Book of Liang, Chapter 23Volume 23: Ye, Prince of Changsha; Boyou, Prince of Yongyang; Yuanjian, Prince of Hengyang; Xiang, Prince of Guiyang · 1 passage

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旣而平西將軍崔慧景入寇京邑，奉江夏王寶玄圍臺城。 Soon afterward General Who Pacifies the West Cui Huijing invaded the capital, supporting Prince Bao Xuan of Jiangxia in a siege of the imperial city.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 47Volume 47 Biographies 28: Wang Rong, Xie Tiao · 1 passage

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東昏失德，江祐欲立夏王寶玄，末更回惑，與弟祀密謂朓曰：「江夏年少輕脫，不堪負荷神器，不可復行廢立。 When Emperor Donghun lost virtue, Jiang You wished to make the Prince of Xia, Bao Xuan, emperor, but later wavered; he and his brother Si secretly told Tiao, "The Prince of Jiangxia is young and frivolous and cannot bear the throne; we cannot depose and establish again.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 50Volume 50 Biographies 31: Emperor Wen's Two Princes, Emperor Ming's Seven Princes · 11 passages

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明帝十一男：敬皇后生東昏侯寶卷，江夏王寶玄，鄱陽王寶寅，和帝； Emperor Ming had eleven sons: Empress Jing bore Bao Juan, Marquis of Donghun; Bao Xuan, Prince of Jiangxia; Bao Yin, Prince of Poyang; and the Emperor He;

江夏王寶玄字智深，明帝第三子也。 Bao Xuan, Prince of Jiangxia, whose style name was Zhishen, was Emperor Ming's third son.

未拜，東昏卽位，進號鎮軍將軍。 Before he could take up the post, the Marquis of Donghun took the throne and Bao Xuan was promoted to General Who Guards the Army.

寶玄娶尚書令徐孝嗣女爲妃，孝嗣被誅離絕，少帝送少姬二人與之，寶玄恨望，密有異計。 Bao Xuan had taken as his consort the daughter of Director of the Imperial Secretariat Xu Xiaosi. After Xiaosi was executed they were separated, and the young emperor sent him two junior consorts in her place. Bao Xuan nursed resentment and secretly plotted rebellion.

明年，崔慧景舉兵，還至廣陵，遣使奉寶玄爲主。 The following year Cui Huijing raised an army and marched back to Guangling, sending envoys to proclaim Bao Xuan their sovereign.