Sui and Tang · Official and Statesman

Xiao Fu 蕭復

c. AD 732 - AD 788

Passages
24
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

Xiao Fu was an official and Statesman.

IdentityHistorical · Male

Other names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Courtesy name Lvchu 履初 Luchu

Life and dates

Death

Age

Attested activity

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Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Key source chapters

  1. Old Book of Tang, Chapter 129 Volume 125 Biographies 75: Zhang Yi, Liu Congyi, Xiao Fu, Liu Hun 23 passages
  2. Old Book of Tang, Chapter 127 Volume 123 Biographies 73: Liu Yan, Di Wuqi, Ban Hong, Ban Shao, Li Xun 1 passage

Career and standing

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Places and affiliations

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Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

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Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment filial and fraternal; harmonious at home; when implicated by a clansman, calmly withdrew and never spoke of it · Mode historian-judgment
    Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 129, passage 161
  • Assessment integrity, conduct, talent, and outspoken bright uprightness sufficient to assist an enlightened ruler · Mode historian-judgment
    Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 129, passage 245
  • Assessment lofty clan prestige and resolve to sharpen reputation and integrity; did not mingle closely with common society · Mode historian-judgment
    Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 129, passage 159
  • Assessment rather looks down on me · Mode named-person-judgment Speaker Dezong (德宗)
    Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 129, passage 139
  • Assessment unyielding in affairs when in the highest council; envied by colleagues; therefore did not long remain in office · Mode historian-judgment
    Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 129, passage 160
  • Assessment upheld pure conduct in youth; wore washed clothes, lived alone, studied tirelessly, associated only with literary men and scholars · Mode historian-judgment
    Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 129, passage 118
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Source notes

References in the histories

24 passages

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 127Volume 123 Biographies 73: Liu Yan, Di Wuqi, Ban Hong, Ban Shao, Li Xun · 1 passage
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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 129Volume 125 Biographies 75: Zhang Yi, Liu Congyi, Xiao Fu, Liu Hun · 23 passages
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史臣曰：張鎰、蕭復、柳渾，節行才能訏謨亮直，皆足相明主，平泰階，而盧杞忌之於前，延賞排之於後，管仲有言：「任君子，使小人間之，害霸也。」 The historiographer says: Zhang Yi, Xiao Fu, and Liu Hun—in integrity, conduct, talent, and outspoken, bright uprightness—all were sufficient to assist an enlightened ruler and level the grand stairway. Yet Lu Qi envied them before and Yanshang excluded them after. Guan Zhong said, "Employ the gentleman and let petty men come between—this harms hegemony."