Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler

Xiao Cha 蕭詧

Attested AD 550 - AD 562

Passages: 10
Chapters: 5
Histories: 4

Overview

The translated histories identify Xiao Cha as an aristocrat, rebel, royal family member, and ruler. This record brings together 10 passages from 5 chapters across 4 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Xiao Cha	蕭詧	Xiao Cha
Personal name	Cha	詧	Cha
Personal name	Cha	詧
Title	Prince of Yueyang	岳陽王
Title	Prince of Yueyang	岳陽王	Yueyang Wang
Epithet	the rebel Cha	賊詧
Personal name	Xiao Cha	蕭詧	Xiāo Chá
Personal name	Xiao Cha	蕭詧	Xiao Cha

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · beiqishu:033:s0023, suishu:079:s0110
Sex: male
Explicit · chenshu:013:s0167, chenshu:023:s0009, zhoushu:026:s0036

Roles

Aristocrat
Rebel
Royal Family Member
Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 侯景之亂後稱籓 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 562
Explicit event contextual date · suishu:079:s0110, suishu:079:s0112, suishu:079:s0116
Source Date: Text: 初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 555 · End: AD 562
Strongly inferred · chenshu:013:s0167
Source Date: Text: 天成元年 · Western Year: AD 555
Explicit · beiqishu:033:s0023
Source Date: Text: 梁岳陽王內附 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 554
Explicit · zhoushu:026:s0036
Source Date: Text: 荊州陷 · Western Interval: Start: AD 554 · End: AD 555
Explicit · chenshu:023:s0009

Family

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Sibling of Xiao Yu (蕭譽)
Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger · Subject Role: younger-brother · Object Role: elder-brother
Parent of Xiao Kui (蕭巋)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kin of Xiao Yi (蕭繹)
Kinship Term: paternal uncle / 叔父 · Subject Role: uncle · Object Role: nephew · Line: paternal

Career and standing

Title: Prince of Yueyang / 岳陽王 · Action: held
Explicit · zhoushu:026:s0036

Places and affiliations

Label: Liang / 梁 · Relation: belonged
Explicit · zhoushu:026:s0036
Label: Western Liang / 後梁 · Relation: ruled
Strongly inferred · chenshu:013:s0167, suishu:079:s0113

Events and relationships

Relation: sovereign-of · Person Id: Tian Longsheng (田龍升)
Explicit · chenshu:013:s0167

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 33Volume 33 Biographies 25: Xiao Yuanming; Xiao Zhi (Liang); Xiao Tui; Xiao Fang (Liang); Xu Zhicai · 1 passage

侍中裴英起衛送明入建鄴，遂稱尊號，改承聖四年為天成元年，大赦天下，宇文黑獺、賊詧等不在赦例。 Palace attendant Pei Yingqi guarded and escorted Ming into Jiankang; he then assumed the imperial title, changed the fourth year of Chengsheng to the first year of Tiancheng, and proclaimed a general amnesty—Yuwen Heitu, the rebel Cha, and the like were not within the amnesty.

Book of Chen, Chapter 13Volume 13: Xu Shipu; Lu Xida; Zhou Fu; Xun Lang; Zhou Jiong · 1 passage

初，蕭詧定州刺史田龍升以城降，詔以為振遠將軍、定州刺史，封赤亭王。 Earlier Tian Longsheng, inspector of Dingzhou under Xiao Cha, had surrendered his city; an edict made him General Who Invigorates the Distant and inspector of Dingzhou, and enfeoffed him as Prince of Chiting.

Book of Chen, Chapter 23Volume 23: Shen Junli; Wang Yang; Lu Shan · 1 passage

荊州陷，蕭詧署金紫光祿大夫。 When Jingzhou fell, Xiao Cha appointed him grand master of splendid happiness with golden seal and purple ribbon.

Book of Sui, Chapter 79Volume 79 Biographies 44: Imperial Affines · 6 passages

父詧，初封岳陽王，鎮襄陽。 His father Cha was first enfeoffed as Prince of Yueyang and posted at Xiangyang.

及繹嗣位，詧稱籓於西魏，乞師請討繹。 When Yi took the throne, Cha submitted to Western Wei as a vassal, asked for troops, and requested a campaign against Yi.

周太祖以詧為梁主，遣柱國於謹等率騎五萬襲繹，滅之。 Taizu of Zhou installed Cha as ruler of Liang and sent the Pillar of State Yu Jin with fifty thousand horsemen to strike Yi and destroy him.

詧遂都江陵，有荊郡、其西平州延袤三百里之地，稱皇帝于其國，車服節文一同王者。 Cha then moved his capital to Jiangling, holding Jing commandery and Xiping prefecture to the west—a domain three hundred li across—and proclaimed himself emperor; his carriage regalia, dress, and ritual forms matched those of a true sovereign.

詧薨，巋嗣位，年號天保。 When Cha died, Kui succeeded him under the era name Tianbao.

吳人見梁武、簡文及詧、巋等兄弟並第三而踐尊位，瓛自以巋之第三子也，深自矜負。 The people of Wu noted that Emperor Wu of Liang, Emperor Jianwen, and the brothers Cha and Kui had all been third sons yet reached the throne. Huan, as Kui's third son, took great pride in this.

Book of Zhou, Chapter 26Volume 26 Biographies 18: Zhang Sunjian; Zhangsun Shaoyuan; Younger Brother Cheng; Elder Brother Si; Hu Sizheng · 1 passage

時梁岳陽王蕭詧內附，初遣使入朝，至荊州。 At that time the Liang Prince of Yueyang, Xiao Cha, had submitted to the court and sent his first embassy through Jing Province.