Xie Tiao 謝朓

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · liangshu:036:s0080
• Sex: male
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0182, nanqishu:047:s0234

Roles

• Calligrapher
• Official
• Poet
• Writer

Family

• Descendant of Xie Shu (謝述)
  Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
• Child of Xie Wei (謝緯)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
• Spouse of Wife of Xie Tiao (朓妻)
  Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife · Relationship State: active

• Kinship Role: wife-and-children · Quantity: unspecified · Label: wife and children / 妻子
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0212

Career and standing

• Label: Counselor to Prince of Jin'an and Administrator of Southern Donghai, acting for Southern Xuzhou / 晉安王鎮北諮議、南東海太守，行南徐州事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建武四年 · Western Year: AD 497
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0219
• Label: adviser to Cavalry General, heading Record Office / 驃騎諮議，領記室 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 高宗輔政 · Western Year: AD 494
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0216
• Label: Acting Aide to the Prince of Yuzhang / 豫章王太尉行參軍 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0186
• Label: Administrator of Xuancheng / 宣城太守 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0218
• Label: Attendant Gentleman of the Palace Department / 尚書殿中郎 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0214
• Label: Attendant of the Heir Apparent / 太子舍人 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0186
• Label: Eastern Pavilion Libationer on Wang Jian's Guard General staff / 王儉衞軍東閤祭酒 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0186
• Label: Recorder of the Central Army under the Prince of Xin'an / 新安王中軍記室 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0193
• Label: Secretary Assistant / 祕書丞 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0217
• Label: Western Headquarters Aide and Literary Scholar to the Prince of Sui / 隨王鎮西功曹，轉文學 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0186
• Label: Commandant of Guards (Weiwei) / 衞尉 · Action: held-concurrently
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0239
• Label: Attendant of the Ministry of Personnel / 吏部郎 · Action: held
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0259
• Label: Attendant Gentleman of the Ministry of Personnel / 尚書吏部郎 · Action: promoted
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0221
• Label: Secretariat Gentleman / 中書郎 · Action: transferred
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0217
• Label: staff of the Prince of Sui / 隨王東中郎府 · Action: transferred
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0186
• Status: arrest · Action: suffered · Label: handed to the Minister of Justice / 付廷尉
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0240, nanqishu:047:s0255
• Status: execution · Action: suffered · Label: imprisoned and executed / 下獄死
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0256

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Southern Qi / 南齊 · Relation: served
  Strongly inferred · nanqishu:047:s0234
• Place: Yangxia in Chen commandery / 陳郡陽夏
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0182
• Place: capital / 京師 · Relation: returned-to
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0249
• Place: Isle Palace / 渚宮 · Relation: active-at
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0248

Learning and skills

• Skill: literary composition / 彫蟲薄伎 · Level: acknowledged
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0247
• Skill: five-character verse / 五言詩 · Level: excellent
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0232
• Skill: clear beautiful prose and verse / 文章清麗 · Level: renowned
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0185
• Skill: cursive and clerical script / 草隷 · Level: skilled
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0232

Works and attributed material

• Work: lamentation text for the Respectful Empress / 哀策文 · Relation: author
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0233
• Kind: letter · Role: author · Addressee Person Id: Xiao Zilong (蕭子隆)
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0194, nanqishu:047:s0195, nanqishu:047:s0196, nanqishu:047:s0197, nanqishu:047:s0198, nanqishu:047:s0199, nanqishu:047:s0200, nanqishu:047:s0201, nanqishu:047:s0202, nanqishu:047:s0203, nanqishu:047:s0204, nanqishu:047:s0205, nanqishu:047:s0206, nanqishu:047:s0207, nanqishu:047:s0208, nanqishu:047:s0209, nanqishu:047:s0210, nanqishu:047:s0211, nanqishu:047:s0212, nanqishu:047:s0213
• Kind: memorial · Role: author · Label: thrice declining Ministry of Personnel / 上表三讓
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0222, nanqishu:047:s0231
• Kind: poem · Role: author
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0191, nanqishu:047:s0192
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0261

Events and relationships

• Kind: military-political · Role: denouncer · Action: exposed-plot · Other Person Id: Wang Jingze (王敬則)
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0241, nanqishu:047:s0258
• Kind: political · Role: victim · Action: first-to-meet-disaster
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0272
• Kind: political · Role: refuser · Action: refused-reply · Other Person Id: Liu Hong (劉渢)
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0238
• Kind: political · Role: informer · Action: reported-plot · Other Person Id: Zuo Xingsheng (左興盛)
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0239
• Kind: political · Role: informer · Action: reported · Other Person Id: Wang Jingze (王敬則) · Label: reported Wang Jingze's rebellion plot / 啓王敬則反謀
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0220
• Kind: political · Role: recalled · Action: returned-to-capital · Other Person Id: Emperor Wu of Qi (齊武帝)
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0189, nanqishu:047:s0190
• Relation: client-of · Person Id: Emperor Ming of Qi (齊明帝)
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0238

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: first to tread the path of disaster in a benighted age · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0272
• Assessment: frivolous and dangerous; long notorious · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Depraved Emperor (東昏)
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0246
• Assessment: lamentation text unmatched in the Qi age · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0233
• Assessment: petty literary skill only · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Depraved Emperor (東昏)
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0247
• Assessment: treacherous and shallow · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Xiao Yaoguang, Prince of Shi'an (始安王遙光)
  Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0240