Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and Writer

Xie Zhen 謝貞

Died AD 585

Passages
25
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Xie Zhen as a calligrapher, official, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 25 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Xie Zhen 謝貞 Xie Zhen
Surname Xie Xie
Personal name Xie Zhen 謝貞 Xie Zhen
Courtesy name Yuanzheng 元正 Yuanzheng
Given name Zhen Zhen

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Calligrapher
  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Writer

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至德三年 · Western Year: AD 585
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0099

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 太建五年 · Western Year: AD 573
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0076
  • Source Date: Text: 太清之亂 · Western Interval: Start: AD 548 · End: AD 552
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0074
  • Source Date: Text: 至德三年 · Western Year: AD 585
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0087

Family

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  • Child of Xie Sui (謝綏)
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Parentage: biological
  • Child of Lady Ruan (阮氏)
    Kinship Term: grandmother / 祖母 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
  • Descendant of Xie An (謝安)
    Kinship Term: ninth-generation descendant / 九世孫 · Generation Distance: 9 · Line: paternal
  • Kin of Wang Yun (王筠)
    Kinship Term: mother's brother / 從舅 · Line: maternal · Intermediary Person Ids: Lady Wang (王氏)
  • Kin of Xie Qia (洽)
    Kinship Term: father's younger brother / 從父 · Line: paternal · Intermediary Person Ids: Xie Lan (謝藺)
  • Kin of Xie Hao (暠)
    Kinship Term: clansman elder brother / 族兄
  • Kin of Xie Kai (凱)
    Kinship Term: clansman / 族子
  • Child of Xie Lan (謝藺)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
  • Child of Lady Wang (王氏)
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological
  • Parent of Xie Jing (靖)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological

Origins and identity

  • Ancestor Person Id: Xie An (謝安) · Generation Distance: 9 · Label: ninth-generation descendant of Xie An / 晉太傅安九世孫
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0062

Career and standing

  • Label: outside arms officer / 智武府外兵參軍事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太建五年 · Western Year: AD 573
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0076
  • Status: mourning-leave · Action: left-office · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至德三年 · Western Year: AD 585
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0087

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Skill: cursive, clerical, seal, and insect scripts / 草隸蟲篆 · Level: skilled
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0070

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

References in the histories

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Book of Chen, Chapter 32Volume 32: Filial Piety · 25 passages
初,父藺居母阮氏憂,不食泣血而卒,家人賓客懼貞復然,從父洽、族兄暠乃共往華嚴寺,請長爪禪師為貞說法,仍謂貞曰:「孝子既無兄弟,極須自愛,若憂毀滅性,誰養母邪?」 Earlier, his father Lin in mourning for his mother Lady Ruan had not eaten and wept blood until he died. Family and guests feared Zhen would do the same. His father's younger brother Qia and his clansman Hao together went to Huayan Temple and asked the monk Long Claw to preach the law for Zhen, and also told Zhen, "A filial son has no brothers and must cherish himself utterly. If grief destroys your nature, who will nourish your mother?"
時尚書右丞徐祚、尚書左丞沈客卿俱來候貞,見其形體骨立,祚等愴然歎息,徐喻之曰:「弟年事已衰,禮有恆制,小宜引割自全。」 At the time right vice director Xu Zuo and left vice director Shen Keqing of the Secretariat both came to visit Zhen. Seeing his frame wasted to bone standing alone, Zuo and the rest sighed in sorrow. Xu admonished him, "Brother, your years are already advanced; rites have a constant measure—you should slightly restrain your cutting grief and preserve yourself."