Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler

Xiao Luan 蕭鸞

Attested AD 494 - AD 498

Passages
34
Chapters
7
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Xiao Luan as an aristocrat, general, official, and royal family member. This record brings together 34 passages from 7 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Xiao Luan 蕭鸞 Xiao Luan
Title Duke of Xuancheng 宣城郡公
Title Duke of Xuancheng 宣城公
Temple name Emperor Gaozong 高宗 Gāozōng
Posthumous Emperor Ming 明帝 Míng Dì
Temple name Gaozong 高宗 Gaozong
Temple Gaozong 高宗 Gāozōng
Title Grand Tutor Xuancheng Prince 太傅宣城王
Temple High Ancestor 高宗 Gaozong
Title High Ancestor 高宗
Temple High Ancestor 高宗 Gāozōng
Given Luan 鸞 Luan
Given Luan 鸞 Luán
Title Marquis of Xichang 西昌侯 Xichang hou
Title Marquis of Xichang 西昌侯
Temple name Mingdi 明帝 Mingdi
Title Prince of Xuancheng 宣城王
Title Qi's Emperor Ming 齊明帝
Title Suppressing-Army General 鎮軍 zhenjun
Personal name Xiao Luan 蕭鸞 Xiao Luan
Personal Xiao Luan Xiao Luan
Personal Xiao Luan 蕭鸞 Xiāo Luán
Title Xiao Luan 蕭鸞 Xiāo Luán

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Aristocrat
  • General
  • Official
  • Royal Family Member
  • Ruler
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 延興元年十月丁酉 · Lunar Month: 10 · Sexagenary Day: 丁酉 · Western Year: AD 494
    Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:005:s0042
  • Source Date: Text: 延興元年十月辛亥 · Lunar Month: 10 · Sexagenary Day: 辛亥 · Western Year: AD 494
    Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:005:s0054
  • Source Date: Text: 延興元年九月乙未 · Lunar Month: 9 · Sexagenary Day: 乙未 · Western Year: AD 494
    Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:005:s0031
  • Source Date: Text: 延興元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 494
    Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:005:s0075
  • Source Date: Text: 隆昌元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 494
    Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:005:s0012
  • Source Date: Text: 建武 · Western Interval: Start: AD 494 · End: AD 498
    Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0011
  • Source Date: Text: 建武元年 · Western Year: AD 494
    Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:008:s0063, nanqishu:008:s0064
  • Source Date: Text: 明帝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 494 · End: AD 498
    Explicit · liangshu:014:s0091
  • Source Date: Text: 永泰元年 · Western Year: AD 498
    Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:020:s0069
  • Source Date: Text: 隆昌元年 · Western Year: AD 494
    Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:004:s0052
  • Source Date: Text: 高宗即位 · Western Year: AD 494
    Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:020:s0067
  • Source Date: Text: 高宗輔政 · Western Year: AD 494
    Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0149, nanqishu:047:s0216

Family

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Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: Grand Tutor, Great General, Governor of Yangzhou / 太傅，領大將軍、揚州牧 · Action: advanced · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 延興元年十月丁酉 · Lunar Month: 10 · Sexagenary Day: 丁酉 · Western Year: AD 494
    Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0042
  • Label: Director of the Masters of Writing / 尚書令 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八月壬午 · Western Year: AD 493
    Explicit · nanqishu:004:s0013
  • Label: General of Agile Cavalry, Recorder of the Masters of Writing, Inspector of Yangzhou / 驃騎大將軍、錄尚書事、揚州刺史 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 延興元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 494
    Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0075
  • Label: Suppressing-Army General with Three Excellencies parity / 鎮軍開府儀同三司 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 隆昌元年 · Western Year: AD 494
    Explicit · nanqishu:004:s0052
  • Label: Director of the Masters of Writing / 尚書令 · Action: held
    Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0012
  • Label: extraordinary honors / 殊禮 · Action: granted
    Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0042
  • Label: yellow battle-axe / 黃鋮 · Action: granted · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 延興元年九月乙未 · Lunar Month: 9 · Sexagenary Day: 乙未 · Western Year: AD 494
    Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0031
  • Title: Prince / 王 · Action: advanced · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 延興元年十月丁酉 · Lunar Month: 10 · Sexagenary Day: 丁酉 · Western Year: AD 494
    Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0042
  • Title: Duke of Xuancheng / 宣城郡公 · Action: advanced · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 延興元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 494
    Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0075
  • Title: Marquis of Xichang / 西昌侯 · Action: held
    Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0012
  • Status: regent · Action: held
    Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0045
  • Label: execution of Fengshu and Zhenzhi / 誅奉叔及珍之 · Action: ordered · Other Person Id: Zhou Fengshu (周奉叔) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 隆昌元年 · Western Year: AD 494
    Explicit · nanqishu:004:s0101
  • Label: execution of Xu Longju / 誅龍駒 · Action: ordered · Other Person Id: Xu Longju (徐龍駒) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 隆昌元年 · Western Year: AD 494
    Explicit · nanqishu:004:s0101
  • Action: replaced, recalled, and reproached Pei Zhaoming for submitting no memorials · Other Person Id: Pei Zhaoming (裴昭明)
    Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0149

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: outward austerity inward unchanged palace spending · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · nanqishu:020:s0087

References in the histories

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Book of Liang, Chapter 14Volume 14: Jiang Yan; Ren Fang · 5 passages
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Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 4Volume 4 Annals 4: Prince of Yulin · 9 passages
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八月壬午，詔稱先帝遺詔，以護軍將軍武陵王曄爲衛將軍，征南大將軍陳顯達卽本號，竝開府儀同三司，尚書左僕射西昌侯鸞爲尚書令。 Eighth month, day renwu: by the late emperor's will, Protected-Army General Xiao Ye, prince of Wuling, became defender general; Chen Xianda, general who conquers the south, kept his rank, and both were given secretariat parity with the three excellencies; Xiao Luan, marquis of Xichang and left vice director of the masters of writing, became director of the masters of writing.
癸巳，皇太后令曰：「鎮軍、車騎、左僕射、前將軍、領軍、左衛、衛尉、八座：自我皇歷啓基，受終于宋，睿聖繼軌，三葉重光。 Day guisi: the empress dowager ordered: "To the suppressing-army general, the general of chariots and cavalry, the left vice director, the former general, the defender-of-the-army, the left guards general, the commandant of the guards, and the eight seats: from the day our house founded its rule and took the mandate from Song, wise sovereigns have followed in succession and for three generations the light has redoubled.
Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 5Volume 5 Annals 5: Prince of Hailing · 6 passages
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Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 8Volume 8 Annals 8: Emperor He of Southern Qi · 1 passage
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Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 20Volume 20 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 6 passages
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Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 47Volume 47 Biographies 28: Wang Rong, Xie Tiao · 2 passages
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Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 53Volume 53 Biographies 34: Virtuous Officials · 5 passages
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