Xu Zhaopei 徐昭佩

Other names

Family

• Spouse of Emperor Yuan (元帝)
  consort 妃 · Primary marriage · Divorced · Until Source Date: Text: 太清三年 · Western Year: AD 549
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passages 98, 112
• Child of Xu Xiaosi (徐孝嗣)
  grandfather 祖 · paternal line · 2 generations · Through Xu Wei (徐緄)
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 96
• Parent of Xiao Hanzhen (蕭含貞)
  bore 生
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 98
• Parent of Xiao Fangdeng (蕭方等)
  bore 生
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 98
• Child of Xu Wei (徐緄)
  father 父
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 97

Career and standing

• Princess of Xiangdong 湘東王妃
  AD 517 天監十六年十二月 · Appointed
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 98
• Body returned to natal clan
  Divorced wife
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 112
• Received no courtesy
  Out of favor
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 99
• treated as a cast-out wife 出妻
  AD 549 太清三年 · Declared · Authority Emperor Yuan (元帝)
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 112

Places and affiliations

• Polity Liang 梁 · Relation Consort of
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 95
• At Tan in Donghai 東海郯
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 95
• At Puxian Nunnery 普賢尼寺 · Relation Visited
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 107
• At Tan 郯 · Relation Native of
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 95
• At Waguan Temple in Jiangling 江陵瓦官寺 · Relation Buried at
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 113
• At Xizhou 西州 · Relation Traveled to
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passages 115, 117

Learning and skills

• Skill drinking 嗜酒 · Level excessive
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 101

Works and attributed material

• Golden Louzi 金樓子
  Relation Subject of
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 114

Events and relationships

• Blamed for death
  Political · Accused · With Lady Wang (王氏)
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 108
• Bridal carriage met violent wind
  Omen · Bride · At Xizhou 西州
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 115
• Buried
  Ritual · Deceased · At Waguan Temple in Jiangling 江陵瓦官寺
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 113
• Drank with unfavored consorts
  Personal · Actor
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 103
• Exchanged poems on white horn pillows
  Personal · Addressee · With He Hui (賀徽) · At Puxian Nunnery 普賢尼寺
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 107
• Hated more after son died
  Personal · Target of hatred · With Xiao Fangdeng (蕭方等)
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 109

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment failed to keep the way of a wife · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 118
• Assessment violently jealous · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 103
• plain in looks / had no beauty (無容質)
  Physical description
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 99
• Item corpse returned to the Xu clan 屍還徐氏 · Relation Returned
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 112

Source notes

• knew the emperor was blind in one eye and painted only half her face before his visits
  Directly stated · History of the Southern Dynasties 12, passage 100