Xu Xiaosi (徐孝嗣) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Xu Xiaosi as an administrator, aristocrat, family member, and official. This record brings together 11 passages from 10 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Xu Xiaosi	徐孝嗣	Xú Xiàosì
Title	Director of the Imperial Secretariat	尚書令	Shangshu Ling
Title	Duke of Zhijiang	枝江公
Title	minister director Xu Xiaosi	尚書令徐孝嗣
Title	Minister of the Interior Xu Xiaosi	尚書令徐孝嗣
Posthumous name	Wenzhong	文忠	Wénzhōng
Personal name	Xiaosi	孝嗣	Xiàosì
Given	Xiaosi	孝嗣
Personal name	Xiaosi	孝嗣	Xiaosi
Given	Xiaosi	孝嗣	Xiàosì
Personal	Xiaosi	孝嗣
Surname	Xu	徐
Surname	Xu	徐	Xú
Personal name	Xu Xiaosi	徐孝嗣	Xú Xiàosì
Personal name	Xu Xiaosi	徐孝嗣	Xu Xiaosi
Personal	Xu Xiaosi	徐孝嗣	Xu Xiaosi
Personal	Xu Xiaosi	徐孝嗣

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liangshu:007:s0197, liangshu:015:s0122, nanqishu:047:s0240, nanqishu:050:s0031, nanqishu:053:s0118, nanqishu:055:s0185
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liangshu:036:s0009, nanqishu:004:s0108, nanqishu:048:s0238, nanqishu:055:s0252, songshu:071:s0133

Roles

Administrator
Aristocrat
Family Member
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: AD 498-501 · Western Interval: Start: AD 498 · End: AD 501
Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:048:s0238
Source Date: Text: 刺史始安王遙光反 · Western Year: AD 499
Explicit · nanqishu:055:s0252
Source Date: Text: 寶玄娶尚書令徐孝嗣女 · Western Interval: Start: AD 499 · End: AD 500
Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:050:s0031
Source Date: Text: 建武四年 · Western Year: AD 497
Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:036:s0009
Source Date: Text: 明帝卽位 · Western Year: AD 494
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0118
Source Date: Text: 東昏 · Western Year: AD 499
Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:047:s0240
Source Date: Text: 隆昌元年 · Western Year: AD 494
Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:004:s0108
Source Date: Text: 隆昌末 · Western Year: AD 494
Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:055:s0185
Source Date: Text: 齊 · Western Interval: Start: AD 479 · End: AD 500
Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:007:s0197
Source Date: Text: 齊受禪 · Western Year: AD 479
Explicit event contextual date · songshu:071:s0133
Source Date: Text: 齊明帝及覽父綍、東海徐孝嗣 · Western Interval: Start: AD 494 · End: AD 498
Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:015:s0122

Family

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Parent of Consort Xu Zhaopei (徐昭佩)
Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Parentage: biological · Generation Distance: 2
Parent of Daughter of Xu Xiaosi (徐孝嗣女)
Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter
Parent of Xu Gun (徐緄)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Child of Xu Yuzhi (徐聿之)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: Governor of Danyang / 丹陽尹 · Action: held
Explicit · nanqishu:055:s0185
Label: Grand Commandant / 太尉 · Action: held
Explicit · liangshu:007:s0197
Label: Minister of the Interior / 尚書令 · Action: held
Explicit · nanqishu:055:s0252
Label: Wenzhong / 文忠 · Action: posthumously-titled
Explicit · liangshu:007:s0197
Title: Duke of Zhijiang / 枝江公 · Action: held
Explicit · liangshu:007:s0197

Places and affiliations

Polity: Southern Qi / 南齊 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · nanqishu:047:s0240
Polity Id: liu-song · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · songshu:071:s0133
Place: Donghai / 東海
Explicit · liangshu:015:s0122
Organization: Southern Qi / 南齊 · Relation: affiliated-with
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0001

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · About Person Id: Kong Xiuyuan (孔休源)
Explicit · liangshu:036:s0009, liangshu:036:s0010
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Quoted: false · About Person Id: Lu Xian (陸閑)
Explicit · nanqishu:055:s0252
Kind: memorial · Role: co-author · Other Person Id: Xie Tiao (謝朓)
Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0240, nanqishu:047:s0241, nanqishu:047:s0242, nanqishu:047:s0243, nanqishu:047:s0244, nanqishu:047:s0245

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: participant · Action: coup-advance · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 隆昌元年 · Western Year: AD 494
Explicit · nanqishu:004:s0108
Kind: legal · Role: co-accuser · Action: joint-memorial-for-execution · Other Person Id: Xie Tiao (謝朓)
Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0240
Kind: legal · Role: advocate · Action: memorialized-innocence · Other Person Id: Lu Xian (陸閑) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 刺史始安王遙光反 · Western Year: AD 499
Explicit · nanqishu:055:s0252

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · songshu:071:s0133

References in the histories

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Book of Liang, Chapter 7Volume 7: Empresses · 1 passage

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祖孝嗣，太尉、枝江文忠公。 grandfather Xiaosi, Grand Commandant, Duke of Zhijiang the Cultured and Loyal.

Book of Liang, Chapter 15Volume 15: Xie Fei; Xie Lan · 1 passage

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初，齊明帝及覽父綍、東海徐孝嗣，並爲吳興，號稱名守，覽皆欲過之！ Once Qi Mingdi, Lan's father Fu, and Donghai's Xu Xiaosi had all ruled Wuxing as famed administrators—Lan meant to outdo them all!

Book of Liang, Chapter 36Volume 36: Kong Xiuyuan; Jiang Ge · 1 passage

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建武四年，州舉秀才，太尉徐孝嗣省其策，深善之，謂同坐曰：「董仲舒、華令思何以尚此，可謂後生之准也。 In Jianwu year 4 the province nominated him as xiucai. Grand Marshal Xu Xiaosi read his examination paper and praised it to his companions: "Not even Dong Zhongshu or Hua Lingsi would outshine this youth—he is the standard for his generation.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 4Volume 4 Annals 4: Prince of Yulin · 1 passage

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王晏、徐孝嗣、蕭坦之、陳顯達、王廣之、沈文季系進。 Wang Yan, Xu Xiaosi, Xiao Tanzhi, Chen Xianda, Wang Guangzhi, and Shen Wenji followed in turn.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 47Volume 47 Biographies 28: Wang Rong, Xie Tiao · 1 passage

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祏聞，以告遙光，遙光大怒，乃稱敕召朓，仍回車付廷尉，與徐孝嗣、祏、暄等連名啓誅朓曰：「謝朓資性險薄，大彰遠近。 Si heard and told Yaoguang, who was furious; summoning Tiao in the emperor's name, he turned him over to the Minister of Justice; with Xu Xiaosi, Si, Xuan, and others he jointly memorialized for Tiao's execution: "Xie Tiao's nature is treacherous and shallow, notorious far and near.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 48Volume 48 Biographies 29: Yuan Tuan, Kong Zhigui, Liu Hui · 1 passage

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兄悛之亡，朝議贈平北將軍、雍州刺史，詔書已出，繪請尚書令徐孝嗣改之。 At Jun's death the court deliberated posthumous award of general who pacifies the north and governor of Yong province; the edict had already been issued when Hui asked minister director Xu Xiaosi to change it.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 50Volume 50 Biographies 31: Emperor Wen's Two Princes, Emperor Ming's Seven Princes · 1 passage

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寶玄娶尚書令徐孝嗣女爲妃，孝嗣被誅離絕，少帝送少姬二人與之，寶玄恨望，密有異計。 Bao Xuan had taken as his consort the daughter of Director of the Imperial Secretariat Xu Xiaosi. After Xiaosi was executed they were separated, and the young emperor sent him two junior consorts in her place. Bao Xuan nursed resentment and secretly plotted rebellion.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 53Volume 53 Biographies 34: Virtuous Officials · 1 passage

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明帝卽位，謂僕射徐孝嗣曰：「劉懷慰若在，朝廷不憂無清吏也。」 When Emperor Ming took the throne, he said to chief minister Xu Xiaosi, "If Liu Huaiwei were still alive, the court would never worry about lacking incorrupt officials."

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 55Volume 55 Biographies 36: Filial Piety · 2 passages

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隆昌末，預謂丹陽尹徐孝嗣曰：「外傳藉藉，似有伊周之事，君蒙武帝殊常之恩，荷託付之重，恐不得同人此舉。 Late in Longchang Yu told Xu Xiaosi, governor of Danyang: "Rumors are rife, as though men plot like Yi Yin and the Duke of Zhou. You received extraordinary favor from Emperor Wu and bear a heavy trust—I fear you cannot join them.

刺史始安王遙光反，事敗，閑以綱佐被召至杜姥宅，尚書令徐孝嗣啟閑不預逆謀，未及報，徐世檦令殺之。 When Governor Prince Yaoguang of Shi'an rebelled and failed, Xian was summoned as a staff member to Old Woman Du's residence. Xu Xiaosi reported that Xian had not joined the plot, but before a reply came Xu Shizhen ordered him killed.

Book of Song, Chapter 71Volume 71 Biographies 31: Xu Zhan, Jiang Zhan, Wang Sengchao · 1 passage

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聿之子孝嗣紹封，齊受禪，國除。 Yuzhi's son Xiaosi inherited the title; when the Qi dynasty succeeded the Song, the fief was abolished.