Overview
Xiao Xian was a rebel Ruler of Liang Remnant.
Life and dates
Death
- Execution by sword · Cause Defiance after defeatDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 87, passage 78
Attested activity
- AD 617 to AD 621 梁子孫起東南至殊死Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 87, passages 76, 78
Origins and identity
- descendant of the former Liang 故梁子孫Directly stated · New Book of Tang 87, passage 76
Career and standing
- clerk 文吏Relation Rose fromDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 87, passage 76
- SufferedDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 87, passage 78
Places and affiliations
- Polity former Liang 故梁 · Relation Descendant ofDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 87, passage 76
- At southeast 東南 · Relation Seized and heldDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 87, passage 76
Events and relationships
- Brought bound to court and spoke defiantlyPolitical · CaptiveDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 87, passage 78
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment militarily insufficient but rhetorically ample · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 87, passage 77
- Assessment stole names of benevolence and righteousness to mislead the age · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 87, passage 77
Source notes
- Historicity historicalDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 87, passage 76
References in the histories
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