Overview
The translated histories identify Xie Lan as a diplomat, envoy, family member, and official. This record brings together 11 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 | Xie Lan | 謝藺 | Xiè Lìn |
| Descriptive kinship | Father of Xie Zhen | 父藺 | |
| Given name | Lan | 藺 | |
| Given name | Lin | 藺 | Lin |
| Surname | Xie | 謝 | |
| Personal name | Xie Lan | 謝藺 | Xiè Lìn |
| Courtesy name | Xiru | 希如 |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleExplicit · chenshu:032:s0064, liangshu:047:s0253
Roles
- Diplomat
- Envoy
- Family Member
- Official
- Scholar
- Writer
Life and dates
Death
- Manner: died at the tomb after more than a month of grief fasting · Age: 38 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 會侯景舉地入附 · Western Year: AD 548Explicit · liangshu:047:s0270
- Manner: died of grief fasting and weeping blood / 不食泣血而卒Explicit · chenshu:032:s0072
Age
- Age: 38 · Reckoning: sui · Context: deathExplicit · liangshu:047:s0270
- Age: 5 · Reckoning: sui · Context: refused to eat before parentsExplicit · liangshu:047:s0256
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 太清元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 547Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:047:s0265
- Source Date: Text: 會侯景舉地入附 · Western Year: AD 548Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:047:s0266, liangshu:047:s0270
- Source Date: Text: 梁 · Western Interval: Start: AD 502 · End: AD 557Explicit · chenshu:032:s0064
Family
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- Descendant of Xie An (謝安)Generation Distance: 8 · Line: paternal
Kinship Term: eighth-generation descendant / 八世孫 · Generation Distance: 8 · Line: paternal - Kin of Ruan Xiaoxu (阮孝緒)Kinship Term: maternal uncle / 舅 · Line: maternal · Subject Role: maternal-uncle · Object Role: nephew · Intermediary Person Ids: Mother of Xie Lan (謝覽母)
Kinship Term: maternal uncle / 舅 · Line: maternal · Subject Role: nephew · Object Role: maternal-uncle · Intermediary Person Ids: Mother of Xie Lan (謝覽母) - Child of Xie Jing (謝經)Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son - Parent of Xie Zhen (謝貞)Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
- Child of Mother of Xie Lan (謝覽母)Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother - Child of Lady Ruan (阮氏)Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological
- Kinship Role: parents · Count: 2 · Label: parents / 父母Explicit · liangshu:047:s0256
Origins and identity
- Line: descendant of Xie An / 謝安之後 · Generation Distance: 8Explicit · liangshu:047:s0254
Career and standing
- Label: Gentleman Attendant of Scattered Cavalry / 散騎侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太清元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 547Explicit · liangshu:047:s0265
- Label: outer troops recorder staff equal / 外兵記室參軍 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:047:s0263
- Label: princely legal-affairs acting staff equal / 王府法曹行參軍 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:047:s0263
- Label: Regular Attendant of Scattered Cavalry / 散騎常侍 · Action: concurrent · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太清元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 547Explicit · liangshu:047:s0265
Places and affiliations
- Polity: Liang / 梁 · Relation: servedExplicit · liangshu:047:s0265
- Place: Yangxia / 陽夏 · Relation: native-ofExplicit · liangshu:047:s0253
- Place: Chen commandery / 陳郡 · Relation: native-ofExplicit · liangshu:047:s0253
Learning and skills
- Label: classics and histories; photographic recitation / 經史，過目便能諷誦Explicit · liangshu:047:s0260
Works and attributed material
- Works: several tens of poems, rhapsodies, steles, and eulogies / 詩賦碑頌數十篇Explicit · liangshu:047:s0271
- Work: Eulogy on the Prince of Xuancheng's Presentation of the Mean / 宣城王奉述中庸頌 · Relation: authorExplicit · liangshu:047:s0264
- Work: Stele on the Virtuous Government of Xiao Kai, Inspector of North Yanzhou / 北兗州刺史蕭楷德政碑 · Relation: authorExplicit · liangshu:047:s0264
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Text: I do not yet feel hungry. / 旣不覺饑Explicit · liangshu:047:s0256
Events and relationships
- Kind: scholarly · Role: author · Action: presented eulogy when sweet dew fell on Scholars' GroveExplicit · liangshu:047:s0264
- Kind: personal · Role: subject · Action: resigned and raced home after ill omen dream on re-entering the realmExplicit · liangshu:047:s0267
- Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: sent as envoy to Wei · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太清元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 547Explicit · liangshu:047:s0265
- Kind: ritual · Role: mourner · Action: wailed, vomited blood, refused food after mother's death
- Kind: ritual · Role: mourner · Action: wailing day and night; wasted to bone after father's deathExplicit · liangshu:047:s0262
- Relation: protege-of · Person Id: Xiao Zixian (蕭子顯)Explicit · liangshu:047:s0263
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: called the Yangyuan of the Ruan house · Provenance: Mode: named-speaker · Speaker Person Id: Ruan Xiaoxu (阮孝緒)Explicit · liangshu:047:s0261
- Assessment: compared by Ruan Xiaoxu to Zengzi at home and to young Lan in service · Provenance: Mode: named-speaker · Speaker Person Id: Ruan Xiaoxu (阮孝緒)Explicit · liangshu:047:s0258
- Assessment: grouped with Qiu and Wu as one who destroyed himself through mourning · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · liangshu:047:s0276, liangshu:047:s0277
Source notes
- Explicit · liangshu:047:s0259
References in the histories
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