Xiao Xifu (蕭希甫) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Xiao Xifu as a judge, monk, official, and scholar. This record brings together 18 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Xiao Xifu	蕭希甫	Xiao Xifu
Personal name	Xiao Xifu	蕭希甫	Xiao Xifu
Given name	Xifu	希甫	Xifu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0013
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:071:s0050, jiuwudaishi:143:s0007

Roles

Judge
Monk
Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Place: place of exile / 貶所 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 930 · End: AD 933
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0073

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天成三年十一月 · Lunar Month: 11 · Western Year: AD 928
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:143:s0142
Source Date: Text: 同光初 · Western Year: AD 923
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:071:s0056
Source Date: Text: 天成 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 930
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:071:s0065
Source Date: Text: 天成四年二月 · Western Year: AD 929
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:040:s0013
Western Interval: Start: AD 910 · End: AD 920 · Source Date: Text: 少舉進士，為梁開封尹袁象先書記。
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0051
Source Date: Text: 長興中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 930 · End: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:071:s0073

Family

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Child of Mother of Xiao Xifu (蕭希甫之母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Parent of Xiao Shiming (蕭士明)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Spouse of Yuan (wife of Xiao Xifu) (袁氏)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband · Relationship State: ended

Career and standing

Label: Left Regular Attendant / 左散騎常侍 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0068
Label: Remonstrating Grand Master / 諫議大夫 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0065
Label: Director of the Court of Judicial Review / 大理卿 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0013
Label: Right Regular Attendant / 右散騎常侍 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:143:s0142
Status: demotion · Action: suffered · Label: registrar of Lanzhou / 嵐州司戶參軍
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0072

Places and affiliations

Polity: Later Liang · Relation: served
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0051
Polity: Later Tang · Relation: served
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0055
Place: Songzhou / 宋州 · Relation: native
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0050

Learning and skills

Credential: jinshi / 進士 · Action: earned
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0051

Works and attributed material

Kind: deliberation · Role: author
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:143:s0142
Kind: edict · Role: subject
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0071, jiuwudaishi:071:s0072

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: accuser · Action: false-memorial · Other Person Id: Dou Luge (豆盧革)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0066
Kind: ritual · Role: officiant · Action: offered-Wang-Du-head
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0013

Source notes

Note: changed name when fleeing to Zhenzhou
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0053

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 40Volume 40 Book of Later Tang 16: Mingzong Annals 6 · 1 passage

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大理卿蕭希甫受之以出，獻於郊社，其王都男並蕃將等磔於開封橋。）〉 Judicial review director Xiao Xifu took it out and offered it at the suburban altars; Wang Du's sons and Tangut generals were dismembered at Kaifeng Bridge.)〉

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 71Volume 71 Book of Later Tang 47: Biographies 23: Ma Yu, Si Kongting, Cao Tingyin, Xiao Xifu, Yao Zongzhi, Jia Fu, Ma Gao, Luo Guan, Chun Yuyan, Zhang Ge, Xu Ji, Zhou Xuanbao · 16 passages

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蕭希甫，宋州人也。 Xiao Xifu came from Songzhou.

象先為青州節度使，以希甫為巡官，希甫不樂。 When Xiangxian became military commissioner of Qingzhou he made Xifu a touring officer, a post Xifu disliked.

鎔以希甫為參軍，尤不樂，居歲餘，又亡之易州，削髮為僧，居百丈山。 Rong appointed him a staff adjutant, which he liked even less; after a year he fled to Yizhou, took the tonsure, and lived as a monk on Mount Baizhang.

同光初，有詔定內宴儀，問希甫樞密使得坐否，希甫以為不可。 Early in the Tongguang era, when court protocol for inner banquets was being set, he was asked whether the commissioner of military affairs should have a seat; Xifu said no.

樞密使張居翰聞之怒，謂希甫曰：「老夫曆事三朝天子，見內宴數百，子本田舍兒，安知宮禁事！」 Commissioner Zhang Juhan flew into a rage: "I have served three emperors and attended hundreds of inner banquets—you're a country bumpkin; what do you know of palace protocol!"

希甫不能對。 Xifu had no answer.

初，莊宗欲以希甫知制誥，宰相豆盧革等附居翰，共排斥之，以為駕部郎中。 Zhuangzong had wanted to make him a drafter of edicts, but Chief Ministers Doulu Ge and others, siding with Zhang Juhan, blocked him and gave him only a post as director in the Transport Department.

希甫失誌，尤怏怏。 Frustrated in his ambitions, he grew especially bitter.

莊宗滅梁室，遣希甫宣慰青、齊，希甫始知其母已死，妻袁氏亦改嫁。 When Zhuangzong destroyed Liang he sent Xifu to console Qing and Qi; only then did he learn his mother was dead and his wife of the Yuan clan had remarried.

希甫乃發哀服喪，居於魏州。 He donned mourning and observed the rites while living at Weizhou.

明宗卒以希甫為諫議大夫，復為匭函使。 Emperor Mingzong at last made him Remonstrating Grand Master and restored him as commissioner of the suggestion box.