Sima Xiaonan 司馬消難

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · beiqishu:047:s0193, chenshu:014:s0155, zhoushu:004:s0036, zhoushu:021:s0144
• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · zhoushu:008:s0035, zhoushu:009:s0001

Roles

• Administrator
• Aristocrat
• General
• Military Officer
• Official
• Rebel

Family

• Kin of Sima Zirui (司馬子瑞)
  Kinship Term: cousin / 從兄 · Line: paternal
• Parent of Sima Lingji (司馬令姬)
  Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father
• Parent of Daughter of Sima Xiaonan (司馬消難女)
  Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter
• Child of Sima Ziru (司馬子如)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Parent of Sima Yong (司馬泳)
  Kinship Term: his son / 其子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Spouse of Lady Gao (高氏)
  Kinship Term: his wife / 其妻 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: ended

• Kinship Role: sons · Count: 3 · Note: left in the capital with Lady Gao
  Explicit · zhoushu:021:s0193

Career and standing

• Label: commandant of the horse guard and director of imperial feasts / 駙馬都尉、光祿卿 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · zhoushu:021:s0150
• Label: commander of nine provinces and eight garrisons; general of chariots and cavalry; minister of works / 都督九州八鎮、車騎將軍、司空 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · zhoushu:021:s0177, zhoushu:021:s0179
• Label: gentleman-attendant compiler / 著作郎 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · zhoushu:021:s0147
• Label: governor of North Yu Province / 北豫州刺史 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · zhoushu:021:s0150
• Label: grand general / 大將軍 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · zhoushu:021:s0161
• Label: grand rear chancellor / 大後丞 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · zhoushu:021:s0162
• Label: inspector-general of Yun Province / 鄖州總管 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · zhoushu:021:s0164, zhoushu:021:s0166
• Label: inspector-general of Ying Province / 䢵州總管 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大象二年七月己酉 · Western Year: AD 580
  Explicit · zhoushu:008:s0035
• Label: Pillar of State / 柱國 · Action: held
  Explicit · zhoushu:009:s0209
• Title: Duke of Sui / 隨公 · Action: enfeoffed
  Explicit · zhoushu:021:s0179
• Title: Duke of Xingyang / 滎陽公 · Action: enfeoffed
  Explicit · zhoushu:021:s0161
• Status: enslavement · Action: assigned to musicians' households · Negated: false
  Explicit · zhoushu:021:s0182
• Status: pardon · Action: released after twenty days
  Explicit · zhoushu:021:s0183
• Label: killed Houmochen Gao, Cai Ze, and forty-plus others / 殺侯莫陳杲、蔡澤等四十餘人 · Action: ordered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宣帝崩 · Western Year: AD 580
  Explicit event contextual date · zhoushu:021:s0168

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Chen / 陳 · Relation: defected-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八月 · Western Year: AD 580
  Explicit event contextual date · zhoushu:021:s0176
• Polity: Northern Qi / 齊 · Relation: served
  Explicit · zhoushu:021:s0145, zhoushu:021:s0150
• Polity: Northern Zhou / 周 · Relation: served
  Explicit · zhoushu:021:s0160, zhoushu:021:s0161
• Place: Wen in Henei / 河內溫
  Explicit · zhoushu:021:s0144

Learning and skills

• Label: light acquaintance with classics and histories / 微涉經史
  Explicit · zhoushu:021:s0146

Events and relationships

• Kind: political · Role: defector · Action: fled to Chen · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八月 · Western Year: AD 580
  Explicit event contextual date · zhoushu:021:s0176
• Kind: military · Role: fugitive · Action: fled-to-Chen · Place: Lushan and Zengshan / 魯山、甑山 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大象二年八月庚辰 · Western Year: AD 580
  Explicit · zhoushu:008:s0062
• Kind: political · Role: rebel-leader · Action: raised troops in response to Yuchi Jiong · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宣帝崩 · Western Year: AD 580
  Explicit event contextual date · zhoushu:021:s0167
• Kind: military · Role: rebel-leader · Action: raised-troops · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大象二年七月己酉 · Western Year: AD 580
  Explicit · zhoushu:008:s0035
• Kind: political · Role: actor · Action: rebelled to Zhou
  Explicit · beiqishu:047:s0194
• Kind: political · Role: defector · Action: surrendered North Yu to Northern Zhou
  Explicit · zhoushu:021:s0159, zhoushu:021:s0160
• Kind: military · Role: defector · Action: surrendered-province · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三月甲午 · Western Year: AD 558
  Explicit · zhoushu:004:s0036
• Relation: sworn-brother-of · Person Id: Yang Zhong (楊忠)
  Explicit · zhoushu:021:s0180
• Relation: treated-as-uncle-by · Person Id: Emperor Wen of Sui (隋文帝)
  Explicit · zhoushu:021:s0181

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: greedy, licentious, fickle · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · zhoushu:021:s0186, zhoushu:021:s0187