Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official

Gu Xie 顧協

Attested AD 525 - AD 542

Passages
22
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Gu Xie as a courtier, official, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 22 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Gu Xie 顧協 Gu Xie
Title Extraordinary Regular Attendant of the Cavalry 員外散騎常侍
Surname Gu 顧 Gu
Surname Gu 顧
Personal name Gu Xie 顧協 Gu Xie
Personal name Gu Xie 顧協
Posthumous name Wenzi 溫子
Given name Xie 協 Xie
Given name Xie 協
Courtesy name Zhengli 正禮

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Courtier
  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Writer

Life and dates

Death

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 普通六年 · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 525
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0099
  • Source Date: Text: 大同八年 · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 542
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0110
  • Source Date: Text: 大同八年 · Western Year: AD 542
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0110
  • Source Date: Text: 普通七年十一月 · Western Year: AD 526
    Explicit · liangshu:008:s0053

Family

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  • Kin of Zhang Yong (張永)
    Kinship Term: maternal great-uncle / 外從祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: maternal
  • Descendant of Gu He (顧和)
    Kinship Term: seventh-generation descendant / 七世孫 · Generation Distance: 7
  • Betrothed to Wife of Gu Xie (顧協妻)
    Kinship Term: betrothed / 娉 · Union Category: betrothal · Relationship State: formed
  • Spouse of Wife of Gu Xie (顧協妻)
    Kinship Term: joined in marriage / 判合 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: formed
  • Child of Mother of Gu Xie (顧協母)
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  • Kinship Role: heirs · Count: 0 · Negated: true
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0125
  • Kinship Role: wife-and-children · Count: 0 · Negated: true · Note: at age sixty
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0103

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: Attendant of the Unimpeded Cavalry / 通直散騎侍郎 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0108
  • Label: Palace Secretary / 中書舍人 · Action: held
    Explicit · liangshu:008:s0053
  • Label: posthumous Regular Attendant of the Cavalry / 贈散騎常侍 · Action: bestowed
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0115

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Credential: Cultivated Talent / 秀才 · Action: recommended
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0090

Works and attributed material

  • Work: Trivial Sayings / 瑣語 · Relation: author · Volumes: 10
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0127
  • Work: Garden of Variant Surnames / 異姓苑 · Relation: author · Volumes: 5
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0127

Events and relationships

References in the histories

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Book of Liang, Chapter 8Volume 8: Crown Prince Zhaoming; Crown Prince Ai; Crown Prince Minhuai · 1 passage
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Book of Liang, Chapter 30Volume 30: Pei Ziye; Gu Xie; Xu Chi; Bao Quan · 21 passages
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臣府兼記室參軍吳郡顧協，行稱鄉閭，學兼文武，服膺道素，雅量邃遠，安貧守靜，奉公抗直，傍闕知己，志不自營，年方六十，室無妻子。 Your servant's headquarters concurrent recorder Gu Xie of Wu commandery — his conduct is praised throughout his district, his learning embraces both civil and military affairs, he embraces the Way in plain simplicity, his generous spirit runs deep, he is content in poverty and keeps to quiet, serves the public with upright integrity, has no patron at his side, and never seeks his own advantage. He is just sixty, and his household has neither wife nor children.
高祖悼惜之，手詔曰：「員外散騎常侍、鴻臚卿、兼中書通事舍人顧協，廉潔自居，白首不衰，久在省闥，內外稱善。 Emperor Wu mourned him deeply and wrote in his own hand: "Extraordinary Regular Attendant of the Cavalry Gu Xie, who also served as Minister of Ceremonies and concurrent Attendant of General Affairs in the Secretariat — he lived in integrity and purity, which did not fade even in old age. Long in the inner offices, he was praised within and without.