Song, Liao, and Jin · Official and Historian

Xiao Hanjianu 蕭韓家奴

Xiāo Hánjiānú

Attested AD 996 - AD 1055

Passages
19
Chapters
3
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Xiao Hanjianu as a historian, official, poet, and scholar. This record brings together 19 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Xiao Hanjianu 蕭韓家奴 Xiāo Hánjiānú
Given Hanjianu 韓家奴 Hanjianu
Surname Xiao 蕭 Xiao
Personal Xiao Hanjianu 蕭韓家奴 Xiao Hanjianu
Courtesy Xiujian 休堅 Xiujian

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Historian
  • Official
  • Poet
  • Scholar
  • Translator
  • Writer

Life and dates

Death

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 統和十四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 14 · Western Year: AD 996
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0010
  • Source Date: Text: 統和二十八年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 28 · Western Year: AD 1010
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0014
  • Source Date: Text: 興宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1031 · End: AD 1055
    Strongly inferred · liaoshi:104:s0110, liaoshi:104:s0109
  • Source Date: Text: 重熙初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1032 · End: AD 1035
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0015
  • Source Date: Text: 重熙初 · Western Year: AD 1032
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:089:s0010
  • Source Date: Text: 重熙十三年春 · Western Year: AD 1044
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0156
  • Source Date: Text: 重熙十五年 · Western Year: AD 1046
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0124
  • Source Date: Text: 重熙四年 · Western Year: AD 1035
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0016

Family

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  • Descendant of Anpo (安摶)
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: grandfather · Object Role: grandson · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
  • Child of Father of Xiao Hanjianu
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Line: paternal

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: compiler of the national history / 兼修國史
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0104, liaoshi:103:s0133
  • Label: Right Vice Commissioner for Forwarding Memorials / 右通進 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和二十八年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 28 · Western Year: AD 1010
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:103:s0014
  • Label: Associate Commissioner of the Three Departments / 同知三司使事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 重熙初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1032 · End: AD 1035
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:103:s0015
  • Label: Military Commissioner of Tiancheng Army / 天成軍節度使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 重熙四年 · Western Year: AD 1035
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:103:s0016
  • Label: Chief Academician of the Hanlin Academy / 翰林都林牙 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0104
  • Label: Military Commissioner of Guide Army / 歸德軍節度使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0130
  • Label: Commissioner of Zhangmin Palace / 彰湣宮使 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 重熙四年 · Western Year: AD 1035
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:103:s0016
  • Status: poetry-companion · Action: appointed · Other Person Id: Xingzong (興宗)
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0017

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Place: Southern Mountains / 南山 · Action: studied
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0009
  • Skill: classics and histories / 經史 · Level: broad
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0009
  • Skill: Khitan and Chinese writing / 遼、漢文字 · Level: fluent
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0009

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: known for good governance · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0131
  • Assessment: Liao's Chao Cuo and Jia Yi · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0154
  • Assessment: spoke without reserve and remonstrated even in jest · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0110

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 89Volume 89 Biographies 19: Yelu Shucheng, Yang Ji, Yelu Hanliu, Yang Ji, Yelu Heshang · 2 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 103Volume 103 Biographies 33: Literature 1 · 16 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 104Volume 104 Biographies 34: Literature 2 · 1 passage
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