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Xiao Ming
蕭明
Xiao Ming
Posthumous name
Emperor Min
閔皇帝
Title
Liang ruler
梁主
Title
Marquis of Zhenyang
湞陽侯
Title
Prince of Jian'an
建安王
Personal name
Xiao Ming
蕭明
Xiao Ming
Personal
Xiao Ming
蕭明
Xiāo Míng
Identity
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Sex Male Roles Administrator Aristocrat General Named Individual Royal Family Member Ruler Life and dates Death Attested activity Source Date: Text: 天保六年Western Year: AD 555
Source Date: Text: 天成元年Western Year: AD 555
Source Date: Text: 太清中Western Interval: Start: AD 547End: AD 549
Source Date: Text: 擒蕭明Western Year: AD 550
Source Date: Text: 明年Western Year: AD 556
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Parent of Xiao Zhang (蕭章) Kinship Term: father / 父Parentage: biologicalSubject Role: fatherObject Role: sonObject Birth Order: 2
Child of Xiao Yi (蕭懿) Kinship Term: father / 父Parentage: biologicalSubject Role: fatherObject Role: son
Career and standing Label: inspector of Yuzhou / 豫州刺史Action: appointedDate Context: Source Date: Text: 太清中Western Interval: Start: AD 547End: AD 549
Title: Marquis of Zhenyang / 湞陽侯Action: enfeoffed
Title: Emperor Min / 閔皇帝Action: posthumously-honored
Role: Liang rulerDate Context: Source Date: Text: 天成元年Western Year: AD 555
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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 33 Volume 33 Biographies 25: Xiao Yuanming; Xiao Zhi (Liang); Xiao Tui; Xiao Fang (Liang); Xu Zhicai · 18 passages
蕭明 蕭祗 蕭退 蕭放 徐之才
Xiao Ming; Xiao Zhi; Xiao Tui; Xiao Fang; Xu Zhicai
蕭明，蘭陵人，梁武帝長兄長沙王懿之子。
Xiao Ming was from Lanling, son of Prince of Changsha Yi, eldest brother of Emperor Wu of Liang.
少歷顯職，封湞陽侯。
In youth he held eminent posts and was enfeoffed Marquis of Zhenyang.
梁主旣納侯景，詔明率水陸諸軍趨彭城，大圖進取。
After the Liang ruler accepted Hou Jing, an edict ordered Ming to lead land and river forces toward Pengcheng for a major advance.
明渡淮未幾，官軍破之，盡俘其衆。
Ming had crossed the Huai only a short while when the government army defeated him and took his entire force captive.
魏帝升門樓，親引見明及諸將帥，釋其禁，送於晉陽。
The Wei emperor ascended the gate tower, received Ming and the generals in person, released their bonds, and sent them to Jinyang.
世宗禮明甚重，謂之曰：「先王與梁主和好十有餘年，聞彼禮佛文，常雲奉為魏主，並及先王，此甚是梁主厚意。
Gao Cheng treated Ming with great courtesy and said to him, "The late king and the Liang ruler were on good terms for more than ten years; I heard that when he performed Buddhist rites he would say he did them for the Wei ruler and for the late king as well—this was truly the Liang ruler's great kindness.
於是使人以明書告梁主，梁主乃致書以慰世宗。
Thereupon he had men report to the Liang ruler with Ming's letter; the Liang ruler then sent a letter in reply to comfort Gao Cheng.
天保六年，梁元為西魏所滅，顯祖詔立明為梁主，前所獲梁將湛海珍等皆聽從明歸，令上黨王渙率衆以送。
In the sixth year of Tianbao, when Emperor Yuan of Liang was destroyed by Western Wei, Gao Yang issued an edict installing Ming as Liang ruler; Liang generals previously captured, such as Zhan Haizhen, were all allowed to follow Ming home, and Prince of Shangdang Huan was ordered to lead troops to escort them.
上黨王進軍，明又與僧辯書，往復再三，陳禍福，僧辯初不納。
Prince of Shangdang advanced his army; Ming also exchanged letters with Sengbian back and forth several times, setting out fortune and calamity, but at first Sengbian would not accept him.
旣而上黨王破東關，斬裴之橫，江表危懼，僧辯乃啟上黨求納明，遣舟艦迎接。
Then Prince of Shangdang broke Dongguan and beheaded Pei Zhiheng; the lands south of the Yangtze were gripped with fear, and Sengbian then memorialized Prince of Shangdang asking to admit Ming and sent warships to receive him.
王饗梁朝將士，及與明刑牲歃血，載書而盟。
The prince feasted Liang officers and men and, with Ming, slaughtered a victim and drank the blood, loading the covenant onto a chariot.
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.
明上表遣第二息章馳到京都，拜謝宮闕。
Ming submitted a memorial sending his second son Zhang hurrying to the capital to bow in thanks before the palace.
冬，霸先襲殺僧辯，復立方智，以明為太傅、建安王。
In winter Baxian attacked and killed Sengbian, restored Fang Zhi, and made Ming grand tutor and Prince of Jian'an.
明年，詔徵明。
The next year an edict summoned Ming.
霸先猶稱藩，將遣使送明，會明疽發背死。
Baxian still styled himself vassal and was about to send envoys to deliver Ming, but Ming died of a carbuncle on his back.
九年二月，自湓城濟江，三月，卽帝位於郢州，年號天啟，王琳總其軍國，追諡明曰閔皇帝。
In the second month of the ninth year he crossed the river from Pencheng; in the third month he took the throne at Yingzhou, era name Tianqi; Wang Lin directed state and army; posthumous title for Ming was Emperor Min.
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 38 Volume 38 Biographies 30: Xin Shu; Yuan Wenyao; Zhao Yanshen · 1 passage