Xiao Zhaowen 蕭昭文

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · nanqishu:005:s0003

Roles

• General
• Royal Family Member
• Ruler

Family

• Child of Crown Prince Wenhui (文惠太子)
  Kinship Term: second son / 第二子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Subject Birth Order: 2

Career and standing

• Label: Administrator of Jiyang / 濟陽太守 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0005
• Label: Bearer of the Staff with full credentials, Commander-in-Chief of Yang and South Xu, Inspector of Yangzhou / 使持節、都督揚南徐二州諸軍事、揚州刺史 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 隆昌元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 494
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0011
• Label: Central-Army General / 中軍將軍 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 鬱林王卽位 · Western Year: AD 494
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0009
• Label: General Who Assists the State / 輔國將軍 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0005
• Label: General Who Establishes Might / 冠軍將軍 · Action: promoted · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 永明十一年 · Regnal Year: 11 · Western Year: AD 493
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0007
• Label: Bearer of the Staff, Supervisor of military affairs of South Yuzhou, Inspector of South Yuzhou / 持節、督南豫州諸軍事、南豫州刺史 · Action: transferred · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 永明十年 · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 492
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0006
• Title: Duke of Linru / 臨汝公 · Action: enfeoffed · Households: 1500 · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 永明四年 · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 486
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0004
• Title: Prince of Xin'an / 新安王 · Action: enfeoffed · Households: 2000
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0010
• Label: Tiger Guards, plumed headgear, painted-wheel carriages, palace bells / 虎賁、旄頭、畫輪車，鐘虡宮縣 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建武元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 494
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0058
• Label: posthumous title Reverent Prince / 諡恭王 · Action: granted
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0063
• Title: Prince of Hailing / 海陵王 · Action: demoted-to
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0055
• Date Context: Source Date: Text: 延興元年秋七月丁酉 · Regnal Year: 1 · Season: autumn · Lunar Month: 7 · Sexagenary Day: 丁酉 · Western Year: AD 494
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0074
• Date Context: Source Date: Text: 延興元年十月辛亥 · Lunar Month: 10 · Sexagenary Day: 辛亥 · Western Year: AD 494
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0055

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Southern Qi / 南齊 · Relation: ruled
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0074
• Polity: Southern Qi / 南齊 · Relation: served
  Strongly inferred · nanqishu:005:s0003
• Place: Jiyang / 濟陽 · Relation: posted-to
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0005

Works and attributed material

• Kind: edict · Role: author · Quoted: true
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0076, nanqishu:005:s0077, nanqishu:005:s0078, nanqishu:005:s0079, nanqishu:005:s0080, nanqishu:005:s0081, nanqishu:005:s0082, nanqishu:005:s0015, nanqishu:005:s0016, nanqishu:005:s0017, nanqishu:005:s0024, nanqishu:005:s0025, nanqishu:005:s0026, nanqishu:005:s0034, nanqishu:005:s0035, nanqishu:005:s0036, nanqishu:005:s0037, nanqishu:005:s0038, nanqishu:005:s0039, nanqishu:005:s0040

Events and relationships

• Kind: personal · Role: subject · Action: denied-food-without-regent-order
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0046
• Kind: ritual · Role: deceased · Action: funeral-with-Donghai-precedent
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0061, nanqishu:005:s0062
• Kind: ritual · Role: issuer · Action: general-amnesty-and-era-change · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 延興元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 494
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0083
• Kind: personal · Role: subject · Action: returned-to-capital · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 文惠太子薨 · Western Year: AD 493
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0008
• Relation: under-authority-of · Person Id: Xiao Luan (蕭鸞)
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0045
• Relation: honored-on-precedent-of · Person Id: Liu Qiang (劉彊)
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0058

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: solemn; met mandate through another's rise amid ruin · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0071, nanqishu:005:s0072
• Assessment: young, weak, long ill, unable to bear the burden · Provenance: Mode: edict · Speaker Person Id: Empress Dowager (皇太后)
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0051
• Kind: illness · Statement: long wasted by illness; cannot bear the weight of rule
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0051
• Item: warm-bright secret coffin gear / 溫明秘器 · Relation: bestowed
  Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0060