Xie Hongwei 謝弘微

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · liangshu:015:s0004, songshu:058:s0021

Roles

• Aristocrat
• Family Member
• Named Individual
• Official

Family

• Parent of Xie Zhuang (謝莊)
  Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: grandfather · Object Role: grandson · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Descendant of Xie Shao (謝韶)
  Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
• Ancestor of Xie Fei (謝朏)
  Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
• Child of Xie Jun (謝峻)
  Kinship Term: adoptive father / 嗣 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
• Kin of Xie Hun (謝混)
  Kinship Term: adoptive uncle / 所繼叔父 · Line: paternal · Subject Role: nephew · Object Role: uncle
• Sibling of Xie Yao (謝曜)
  Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Relative Age: younger · Shared Parentage: full
• Child of Xie Si (謝思)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
• Kin of Liu Zhan (劉湛)
  Kinship Term: maternal uncle's son / 舅子 · Line: maternal
• Child of Mother of Xie Hongwei (謝弘微母)
  Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother

• Kinship Role: adoptive uncles' wives and aunts returned to the clan · Count: 4 · Note: 伯叔二母，歸宗兩姑
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0069

Career and standing

• Label: Palace Attendant / 侍中 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉六年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 429
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0082
• Label: Palace Companion / 中庶子 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉六年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 429
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0082
• Label: Commander of the Heir Apparent's Right Guard / 太子右衛率 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉八年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 431
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0087
• Label: Palace Attendant of the Yellow Gates / 黃門侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太祖即位 · Western Year: AD 424
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0167
• Label: Literary Companion / 文學 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宋初 · Western Year: AD 420
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0164
• Label: Advising Military Assistant on the Western Pacification staff / 鎮西諮議參軍 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0166
• Label: Direct Attendant / 通直郎 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0062
• Label: Director of the Masters of Writing for Personnel / 尚書吏部郎 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0168
• Label: General of the Right Guard / 右衞將軍 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0169
• Label: Military Assistant to the Grand Marshal of Langya / 琅邪王大司馬參軍 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0058
• Label: Supernumerary Gentleman of the Palace Cadet / 員外散騎侍郎 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0058
• Label: Song Grand Minister of Ceremonies / 宋太常卿 · Action: held
  Explicit · liangshu:015:s0004
• Label: Grand Master of Sacrifices / 太常 · Action: posthumously-appointed
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0109
• Label: General of the Right Guard / 右衛 · Action: resigned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉八年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 431
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0087
• Label: Palace Companion / 中庶子 · Action: resigned
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0083
• Title: Marquis of Jianchang County / 建昌縣侯 · Action: inherited · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 義熙初 · Western Year: AD 405
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0031

Places and affiliations

• Polity Id: liu-song · Relation: served
  Explicit · liangshu:015:s0004, songshu:058:s0063, songshu:058:s0167
• Place: Yangxia in Chen Commandery / 陳郡陽夏
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0021
• Organization: Five Ministers / 五臣 · Relation: member-of
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0167

Learning and skills

• Skill: preparing fine meals / 營膳羞 · Level: renowned
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0085

Works and attributed material

• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Huilin (慧琳)
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0077, songshu:058:s0078
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0099, songshu:058:s0100, songshu:058:s0101, songshu:058:s0106

Events and relationships

• Kind: social · Action: joined the outings arranged to curb Xie Lingyun
  Explicit · songshu:056:s0032
• Kind: mourning · Role: subject · Action: mourned · Other Person Id: Xie Yao (謝曜)
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0073
• Kind: mourning · Role: subject · Action: mourned · Other Person Id: Mother of Xie Hongwei (謝弘微母)
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0165
• Kind: funeral · Role: mourner · Other Person Id: Princess Jinling (晉陵公主) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉九年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 432
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0102
• Kind: household-management · Role: manager · Other Person Id: Xie Hun (謝混)
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0061, songshu:058:s0064

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: Master Wei without fault; would reach chief minister by sixty · Provenance: Mode: named-speaker · Speaker Person Id: Xie Hun (謝混)
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0046, songshu:058:s0047
• Assessment: simple yet without loss, detached yet without dissipation; famed minister · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0153
• Kind: health · Statement: long frail; illness culminating in death
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0075, songshu:058:s0087, songshu:058:s0103
• Item: two sealed letters of the Grand Ancestor / 太祖手敕二封 · Relation: possessed
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0106, songshu:058:s0107

Source notes

• From: Mi / 密 · To: Hongwei / 弘微 · Reason: violated adoptive family taboo
  Explicit · songshu:058:s0025