Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and Hermit

Xiao Shisu 蕭眎素

Died AD 509

Passages
6
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Xiao Shisu as a hermit, official, and scholar. This record brings together 6 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Xiao Shisu 蕭眎素 Xiao Shisu
Posthumous name Recluse Zhenwen 貞文先生 Zhenwen Xiansheng
Given Shisu 眎素 Shisu
Personal name Xiao Shisu 蕭眎素 Xiao Shisu

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Hermit
  • Official
  • Scholar

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年 · Western Year: AD 509
    Explicit · liangshu:052:s0150

Attested activity

Family

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  • Child of Xiao Sihua (蕭思話)
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: grandfather · Object Role: grandson · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
  • Child of Xiao Huiming (蕭惠明)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Kin of Xiao Huixiu (蕭惠休)
    Kinship Term: paternal uncle / 叔父 · Line: paternal · Subject Role: uncle · Object Role: nephew
  • Spouse of Wife of Xiao Shisu
    Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: ended

Career and standing

  • Title: Recluse Zhenwen / 貞文先生 · Action: posthumously-granted
    Explicit · liangshu:052:s0151

Places and affiliations

Events and relationships

  • Kind: withdrawal · Role: actor · Action: declined Secretariat post and lived alone on Mt She
  • Kind: personal · Role: actor · Action: scattered eighty thousand cash gift among kin and friends
    Explicit · liangshu:052:s0143

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: little taste for office · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liangshu:052:s0153
  • Assessment: quiet, retiring, few desires; joy and anger not shown · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liangshu:052:s0145

References in the histories

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Book of Liang, Chapter 52Volume 52: The Self-Sufficient · 6 passages