Xing Shao 邢卲

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0060, beiqishu:029:s0001, beiqishu:030:s0002, beiqishu:031:s0031, beiqishu:034:s0035, beiqishu:034:s0211, beiqishu:036:s0001, beiqishu:047:s0227, suishu:077:s0069, zhoushu:021:s0001
• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · beiqishu:033:s0043, beiqishu:035:s0100, weishu:110:s0089
• Value: male
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0030

Roles

• Official
• Poet
• Scholar
• Writer

Family

• Kin of Xing Shu (邢恕)
  Kinship Term: orphan nephew / 孤子 · Intermediary Person Ids: Elder brother of Xing Shao (邢卲兄)
• Kin of Widowed sister-in-law of Xing Shao (邢卲寡嫂)
  Kinship Term: widowed sister-in-law / 寡嫂 · Intermediary Person Ids: Elder brother of Xing Shao (邢卲兄)
• Kin of Li Jijie (李季節)
  Kinship Term: wife's younger brother / 妻弟 · Intermediary Person Ids: Wife of Xing Shao (邢卲妻)
• Descendant of Zhen (貞)
  Kinship Term: ancestor / 後
• Kin of Xing Luan (邢巒)
  Kinship Term: clansman elder brother / 族兄 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Line: paternal
• Kin of Xing Gao (邢杲)
  Kinship Term: cousin / 從弟 · Line: paternal
• Sibling of Elder brother of Xing Shao (邢卲兄)
  Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: uncertain
• Child of Xing Qiu (邢虬)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Parent of Xing Dade (邢大德)
  Kinship Term: illegitimate son / 孽子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Parent of Xing Dadao (邢大道)
  Kinship Term: illegitimate son / 孽子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Child of Mother of Xing Shao (邢卲母)
  Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
• Kin of Xing Fei (邢罘)
  Kinship Term: paternal cousin / 從兄 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Line: paternal
• Parent of Xing Dabao (邢大寶)
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Spouse of Wife of Xing Shao (邢卲妻)
  Kinship Term: wife / 婦 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: active

• Kinship Role: brothers and affinal kin · Quantity: several · Statement: praised for harmony among brothers and in-laws
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0080

Origins and identity

• Lineage: descendant of Grand Master of Ceremonies Zhen of Wei / 魏太常貞之後 · Ancestor Person Id: Zhen (貞)
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0001

Career and standing

• Label: writer and official / 文士官員
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0021, beiqishu:036:s0075
• Label: headquarters staff secretary / 府司馬 · Action: appointed · Place: Qing province / 青州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 出鎮青州 · Western Interval: Start: AD 525 · End: AD 528
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0028
• Label: constant duty in the inner court reviewing appointments / 恒直內省 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太昌初 · Western Year: AD 532
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0033
• Label: General of the Guards / 衛將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太昌初 · Western Year: AD 532
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0034
• Label: Grand Master of the Imperial Academy / 國子祭酒 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太昌初 · Western Year: AD 532
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0034
• Label: joint director of court ceremonial / 對典朝儀 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 孝昌初 · Western Year: AD 525
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0020
• Label: concurrent Attendant of the Yellow Gate / 兼給事黃門侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普泰中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 531 · End: AD 532
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0032
• Label: Regular Attendant of the Scattered Cavalry / 散騎常侍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普泰中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 531 · End: AD 532
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0032
• Label: gentleman attendant at court / 奉朝請 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 除奉朝請 · Western Year: AD 515
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0017
• Label: mourning officer for Emperor Xuanwu / 魏宣武挽郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 魏宣武挽郎 · Western Year: AD 515
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0017
• Label: acting Grand Master of the Imperial Academy / 攝國子祭酒 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0075
• Label: Attendant Gentleman of the Central Straight / 中直侍郎 · Action: held
  Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0035
• Label: Director of the Secretariat / 中書令 · Action: held
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0030
• Label: Secretariat Attendant / 中書侍郎 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永安初 · Western Year: AD 528
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0030
• Label: assistant editorial director / 著作佐郎 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 遷著作佐郎 · Western Year: AD 515
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0017
• Label: Grand Master of Ceremonies / 太常卿 · Action: promoted
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0075
• Label: Secretariat Supervisor / 中書監 · Action: promoted
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0075
• Label: Special Advance / 特進 · Action: granted
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0079
• Status: held-three-literary-offices-concurrently · Action: held
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0076

Places and affiliations

• Label: Northern Qi / 齊 · Relation: served
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0077, beiqishu:036:s0078
• Label: Northern Wei / 魏 · Relation: served
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0017
• Place: Hejian / 河間 · Relation: associated-origin
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0030
• Place: Hejian / 河間
  Explicit · beiqishu:029:s0007, beiqishu:034:s0035
• Place: Mo in Hejian / 河間鄚
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0001
• Place: Luoyang / 洛陽 · Relation: resided-in
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0007
• Place: Mount Song / 嵩高山 · Relation: took-refuge-at
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0031
• Place: Qing province / eastern lands / 青土 · Relation: posted-to
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0028, beiqishu:036:s0029
• Place: Yan province / 兗州 · Relation: posted-to
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0102

Learning and skills

• Subject: History of Han / 漢書 · Statement: memorized largely in five days
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0008
• Subject: Five Classics chapter-and-sentence / 五經章句 · Statement: pursued in later years
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0081
• Skill: classical learning and ritual expertise / 五經禮儀 · Level: renowned
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0081, beiqishu:036:s0082
• Skill: composition and memory / 屬文強記 · Level: renowned
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0005, beiqishu:036:s0008, beiqishu:036:s0009

Works and attributed material

• Work: collected works / 集 · Volumes: 30
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0105
• Work: collected writings in thirty scrolls / 集三十卷 · Relation: author
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0105
• Work: lamentation for Emperor Wenxuan / 哀策 · Relation: author
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0078
• Work: Sweet Dew Eulogies preface / 甘露頌序 · Relation: author
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0077
• Kind: letter · Role: author · Other Person Id: Xin Shu (辛術)
  Explicit · beiqishu:038:s0019
• Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Lu Yanshi (陸彥師) · Purpose: recommendation
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0030
• Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Ids: Yang Yin (楊愔), Wei Shou (魏收) · Statement: petition on schools and Bright Hall
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0037, beiqishu:036:s0038, beiqishu:036:s0039, beiqishu:036:s0040, beiqishu:036:s0041, beiqishu:036:s0042, beiqishu:036:s0043, beiqishu:036:s0044, beiqishu:036:s0045, beiqishu:036:s0046, beiqishu:036:s0047, beiqishu:036:s0048, beiqishu:036:s0049, beiqishu:036:s0050, beiqishu:036:s0051, beiqishu:036:s0052, beiqishu:036:s0053, beiqishu:036:s0054, beiqishu:036:s0055, beiqishu:036:s0056, beiqishu:036:s0057, beiqishu:036:s0058, beiqishu:036:s0059, beiqishu:036:s0060, beiqishu:036:s0061, beiqishu:036:s0062, beiqishu:036:s0063, beiqishu:036:s0064, beiqishu:036:s0065, beiqishu:036:s0066, beiqishu:036:s0067, beiqishu:036:s0068, beiqishu:036:s0069, beiqishu:036:s0070, beiqishu:036:s0071, beiqishu:036:s0072
• Kind: memorial · Role: author
  Explicit · beiqishu:047:s0227
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Yang Yin (楊愔)
  Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0211
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Other Person Id: Li Jijie (李季節) · Statement: If thought cannot obtain it, no need to labor at reading
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0097
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Witness Person Id: Xing Shao (邢卲)
  Explicit · suishu:077:s0069
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Statement: How foolish to collate books; pondering mistakes is a pleasure
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0094, beiqishu:036:s0095

Events and relationships

• Kind: personal · Role: petitioner · Action: asked-to-change-names · Other Person Id: Gao Yang (高洋)
  Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0061
• Kind: literary · Role: participant · Action: composed-poems-overnight · Other Person Ids: Xin (昕), Yang Gu (陽固), Pei Bomo (裴伯茂), Xing Fei (邢罘), Lu Daohui (陸道暉) · Place: Prince of Beihai's residence / 北海王昕舍
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0012, beiqishu:036:s0013, beiqishu:036:s0014
• Kind: ritual · Role: consultant · Action: consulted-on-funeral-and-drafted-lamentation · Other Person Id: Gao Yang (高洋) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 文宣皇帝崩 · Western Year: AD 559
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0078
• Kind: scholarly · Role: namer · Action: devised-personal-name-and-style-for-fei · Other Person Id: Emperor Fei (廢帝殷)
  Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0060
• Kind: literary · Role: author · Action: drafted-thanks-memorial-for-Yuan-Cha · Other Person Id: Yuan Cha (元叉)
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0018, beiqishu:036:s0019
• Kind: political · Role: appointee · Action: fled-to-Mount-Song · Other Person Id: Yang Yin (楊愔) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 尒朱榮入洛 · Western Year: AD 528
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0031
• Kind: ritual · Role: mourner · Action: mourned-mother-beyond-rites · Other Person Id: Mother of Xing Shao (邢卲母)
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0036
• Kind: political · Role: author · Action: petitioned-schools-and-Bright-Hall · Other Person Ids: Yang Yin (楊愔), Wei Shou (魏收)
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0037
• Kind: personal · Role: subject · Action: returned-home-for-aged-parents · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 以親老還鄉 · Western Interval: Start: AD 532 · End: AD 550
  Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:036:s0035
• Kind: literary · Role: author · Action: wrote-Sweet-Dew-preface · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 文宣幸晉陽 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 559
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0077
• Relation: guest-of · Person Id: Yuan Luo (元羅)
  Explicit · beiqishu:031:s0031

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: compared to Wang Can for memory of poems · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0015
• Assessment: lofty feeling like Dongmen Wu in grieving for Shu · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0104
• Assessment: model for a generation; open, genuine, simple · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0108
• Assessment: plain, informal, hospitable to all · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0088, beiqishu:036:s0089, beiqishu:036:s0092
• Kind: character · Statement: plain, informal; stored fruit on rafters; picked lice while talking
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0089, beiqishu:036:s0090, beiqishu:036:s0091, beiqishu:036:s0092
• Kind: habit · Statement: distant from wife; never slept in inner quarters
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0098, beiqishu:036:s0099
• Kind: habit · Statement: needed guests for company; could not sit alone
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0100
• Kind: habit · Statement: owned many books but seldom collated them
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0093

Source notes

• From: Shao / 卲 · To: Ji / 吉 · Statement: observed naming taboo and did not use formal name; used childhood name
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0003