Overview
The translated histories identify Xiao Zixian as a historian, official, statesman, and writer. This record brings together 4 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Xiao Zixian | 蕭子顯 | Xiāo Zǐxiǎn |
| Surname | Xiao | 蕭 | Xiao |
| Personal name | Xiao Zixian | 蕭子顯 | Xiāo Zǐxiǎn |
| Personal name | Xiao Zixian | 蕭子顯 | Xiao Zixian |
| Given name | Zixian | 子顯 | Zixian |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · liangshu:047:s0263, nanqishu:060:s0001
Roles
- Historian
- Official
- Statesman
- Writer
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 吏部尚書蕭子顯表其至行 · Western Interval: Start: AD 502 · End: AD 549Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:047:s0263
- Source Date: Text: 子顯之於斯文 · Western Interval: Start: AD 502 · End: AD 537Explicit · nanqishu:060:s0027
- Source Date: Text: 梁 · Western Interval: Start: AD 502 · End: AD 537Explicit · nanqishu:060:s0001, nanqishu:060:s0002
Career and standing
- Label: Minister of Personnel / 吏部尚書 · Action: heldExplicit · liangshu:047:s0263
Places and affiliations
- Polity: Liang / 梁 · Relation: servedExplicit · nanqishu:060:s0001
Works and attributed material
- Work: Book of Southern Qi / 南齊書 · Relation: authorExplicit · nanqishu:060:s0001, nanqishu:060:s0002
Events and relationships
- Kind: political · Role: recommender · Action: memorialized Xie Lan's utmost conduct · Other Person Id: Xie Lan (謝藺)Explicit · liangshu:047:s0263
- Kind: political · Role: petitioner · Action: petitioned · Other Person Id: Emperor Wu of Liang (梁武帝) · Outcome: undertook a separate history of QiExplicit · nanqishu:060:s0002
- Relation: subject-of · Person Id: Emperor Wu of Liang (梁武帝)Explicit · nanqishu:060:s0002
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: delighted in stylistic self-indulgence; revisions and ornament weakened his prose · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · nanqishu:060:s0027
References in the histories
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