Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Family Member

Xie Kai 凱

Attested AD 585

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Xie Kai was a Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 585 至德三年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Chen 32, passage 96

Family

Kin of Xie Zhen (謝貞)
clansman 族子
Directly stated · Book of Chen 32, passage 96

References in the histories

Book of Chen, Chapter 32Volume 32: Filial Piety · 2 passages

族子凱等粗自成立，已有疏付之，此固不足仰塵厚德。 My clansman Kai and the rest have roughly established themselves; I have already left a written instruction with them—this truly is not enough to bear up your thick virtue.

初，貞之病亟也，遺疏告族子凱曰：「吾少罹酷罰，十四傾外蔭，十六鍾太清之禍，流離絕國，二十餘載。 Earlier, when Zhen's illness was critical, he left a written instruction telling his clansman Kai, "I in youth suffered harsh punishment; at fourteen I lost the shelter of kin outside, and at sixteen I met the calamity of Taiqing, drifting in exile and cut off from my state for more than twenty years.