Xie Lan 謝藺

Other names

Family

• Descendant of Xie An (謝安)
  paternal line · 8 generations
  eighth-generation descendant 八世孫 · paternal line · 8 generations
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 254
• Kin of Ruan Xiaoxu (阮孝緒)
  maternal uncle 舅 · maternal line · Through Mother of Xie Lan (謝覽母)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 258
• Child of Xie Jing (謝經)
  father 父
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 255
• Parent of Xie Zhen (謝貞)
  father 父
  Directly stated · Book of Chen 32, passage 64
• Child of Mother of Xie Lan (謝覽母)
  mother 母
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passages 262, 266
• Child of Lady Ruan (阮氏)
  mother 母
  Directly stated · Book of Chen 32, passage 72

• parents 父母
  Kinship Role parents · Count 2
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 256

Origins and identity

• Line descendant of Xie An 謝安之後 · Generation Distance 8
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 254

Career and standing

• Gentleman Attendant of Scattered Cavalry 散騎侍郎
  AD 547 太清元年 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 265
• outer troops recorder staff equal 外兵記室參軍
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 263
• princely legal-affairs acting staff equal 王府法曹行參軍
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 263
• Regular Attendant of Scattered Cavalry 散騎常侍
  AD 547 太清元年 · Concurrent
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 265

Places and affiliations

• Polity Liang 梁 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 265
• At Yangxia 陽夏 · Relation Native of
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 253
• At Chen commandery 陳郡 · Relation Native of
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 253

Learning and skills

• classics and histories; photographic recitation 經史，過目便能諷誦
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 260

Works and attributed material

• Works several tens of poems, rhapsodies, steles, and eulogies 詩賦碑頌數十篇
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 271
• Eulogy on the Prince of Xuancheng's Presentation of the Mean 宣城王奉述中庸頌
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 264
• Stele on the Virtuous Government of Xiao Kai, Inspector of North Yanzhou 北兗州刺史蕭楷德政碑
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 264
• I do not yet feel hungry. 旣不覺饑
  Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 256

Events and relationships

• Presented eulogy when sweet dew fell on Scholars' Grove
  Scholarly · Author
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 264
• Resigned and raced home after ill omen dream on re entering the realm
  Personal · Subject
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 267
• Sent as envoy to Wei
  AD 547 太清元年 · Diplomatic · Envoy
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 265
• Wailed, vomited blood, refused food after mother's death
  Ritual · Mourner
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passages 268-270
• Wailing day and night; wasted to bone after father's death
  Ritual · Mourner
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 262
• Relation Protege of · Person Xiao Zixian (蕭子顯)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 263

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment called the Yangyuan of the Ruan house · Mode named-speaker Speaker Ruan Xiaoxu (阮孝緒)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 261
• Assessment compared by Ruan Xiaoxu to Zengzi at home and to young Lan in service · Mode named-speaker Speaker Ruan Xiaoxu (阮孝緒)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 258
• Assessment grouped with Qiu and Wu as one who destroyed himself through mourning · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passages 276-277

Source notes

• To Lan 藺 · By Person Id Ruan Xiaoxu (阮孝緒) · Reason named after comparison to 藺生
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 259