Song, Liao, and Jin · Official

Xiao Taowei 蕭陶隗

Xiāo Táowěi

Attested AD 1065 - AD 1091

Passages
13
Chapters
4
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Xiao Taowei as an administrator, aristocrat, and official. This record brings together 13 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Xiao Taowei 蕭陶隗 Xiāo Táowěi
Title acting Eastern Capital regent 權知東京留守
Title Khitan mobile palace deployment director 契丹行宮都部署
Given Taowei 陶隗 Táowěi
Given name Taowei 陶隗 Táowěi
Courtesy name Wugulin 烏古鄰 Wūgǔlín
Surname Xiao Xiāo
Personal Xiao Taokui 蕭陶隗 Xiāo Táowěi
Personal name Xiao Taowei 蕭陶隗 Xiāo Táowěi
Personal name Xiao Taowei 蕭陶隗
Title Yilibi 夷離畢

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Aristocrat
  • Official

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 大康九年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 1083
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:090:s0065, liaoshi:090:s0068
  • Source Date: Text: AD 1075 · Western Year: AD 1075
    Explicit · liaoshi:098:s0009
  • Source Date: Text: 七年六月 · Western Year: AD 1091
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:025:s0109
  • Source Date: Text: 咸雍五年 · Western Year: AD 1069
    Explicit · liaoshi:060:s0054
  • Source Date: Text: 咸雍初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1065 · End: AD 1066
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:090:s0048
  • Source Date: Text: 大康中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1075 · End: AD 1084
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:090:s0055

Family

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  • Descendant of Xiate (轄特)
    Kinship Term: sixth-generation descendant / 六世孫 · Generation Distance: 6 · Line: paternal
  • Parent of Tumu (圖木)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  • Parent of Xiashi (轄式)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Career and standing

  • Label: Horse Herds Grand Steward / 馬群太保 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 咸雍初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1065 · End: AD 1066
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:090:s0048
  • Label: Khitan Mobile Palace deployment director / 契丹行宮都部署 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 大康中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1075 · End: AD 1084
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:090:s0055
  • Label: Southwest Route pacification commissioner / 西南面招討使 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 大康九年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 1083
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:090:s0068, liaoshi:090:s0065
  • Label: Grand Guardian of Horse Herds / 馬群太保 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸雍五年 · Western Year: AD 1069
    Explicit · liaoshi:060:s0054
  • Label: military commissioner of Tamu city / 塌母城節度使 · Action: reappointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:090:s0070
  • Office: 夷離畢 / Yilibi · Western Year: AD 1075
    Explicit · liaoshi:098:s0009
  • Status: dismissed · Action: removed-from-office · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大康九年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 1083
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:090:s0069

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: contemporaries mourned his fall · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:090:s0075
  • Assessment: could not be outdone even by Wei Zheng · Provenance: Mode: quotation
    Explicit · liaoshi:090:s0062
  • Assessment: herd-administration-existed-in-name-only · Provenance: Mode: self-report · Speaker Person Id: Xiao Taowei (蕭陶隗)
    Explicit · liaoshi:060:s0054
  • Assessment: loyal in warning against Asi · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:090:s0079
  • Kind: physical-description · Statement: when angered his beard would bristle
    Explicit · liaoshi:090:s0072

Source notes

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 25Volume 25 Annals 25: Daozong 5 · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 60Volume 60 Treatises 30: Finance and Economics 2 · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 90Volume 90 Biographies 20: Xiao Ala, Yelu Yixian, Xiao Taowei, Xiao Talage, Yelu Dilu · 10 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 98Volume 98 Biographies 28: Xiao Wuna, Yelu Yan, Liu Shen, Yelu Hulu · 1 passage