Xie Kai (凱) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Xie Kai as a family member. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Xie Kai	凱
Descriptive kinship	Clansman of Xie Zhen	族子凱
Given name	Kai	凱	Kai

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · chenshu:032:s0096

Roles

Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 至德三年 · Western Year: AD 585
Explicit event contextual date · chenshu:032:s0096

Family

Kin of Xie Zhen (謝貞)
Kinship Term: clansman / 族子

References in the histories

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Book of Chen, Chapter 32Volume 32: Filial Piety · 2 passages

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族子凱等粗自成立，已有疏付之，此固不足仰塵厚德。 My clansman Kai and the rest have roughly established themselves; I have already left a written instruction with them—this truly is not enough to bear up your thick virtue.

初，貞之病亟也，遺疏告族子凱曰：「吾少罹酷罰，十四傾外蔭，十六鍾太清之禍，流離絕國，二十餘載。 Earlier, when Zhen's illness was critical, he left a written instruction telling his clansman Kai, "I in youth suffered harsh punishment; at fourteen I lost the shelter of kin outside, and at sixteen I met the calamity of Taiqing, drifting in exile and cut off from my state for more than twenty years.