蕭子暉 (景光)

Xiao Zihui 蕭子暉 (ca. 489–ca. 547), zi Jingguang 景光. Liang period writer.

Xiao Zihui's ancestral home was Nan Lanling 南蘭陵 (northwest of modern Changzhou, Jiangsu). He was one of the youngest sons of Xiao Ni 蕭嶷 (444–492), Prince Wenxian 文獻 of Yuzhang, who was the second son of Xiao Daocheng 蕭道成 (427–482), the founder of the Southern Qi dynasty. During his youth he had an aptitude for writing. He began his career as supernumerary gentleman cavalier attendant. He later was promoted to record keeper on the staff of the leader of court gentlemen on the south.

Xiao Zihui was appointed magistrate of Lin'an 臨安 (north of modern Lin'an, Zhejiang). From this post he was promoted to the position of adviser to Xiao Ji 蕭紀 (508–553), Prince of Wuling 武陵 and also served as magistrate of Xinfan 新繁. While in Xiao Ji's service he also held the posts of retainer and senior administrator. Xiao Zihui died ca. 547 at about sixty years of age.

The monograph on bibliography of the Sui shu lists a collection of Xiao Zihui's writings in nine juan. The two Tang histories record a collection in eleven juan. This was lost in the Song. Lu Qinli has collected four of Xiao Zihui's poems in Xian Qian Han Wei Jin Nanbeichao shi. Yan Kejun includes two prose pieces in Quan shanggu Qin Han Sanguo Liuchao wen. Both of these are fu. The “Dongcao fu” 冬草賦 (Fu on a winter plant) is a famous yongwu composition in which Xiao Zihui uses a plant that is able to withstand winter cold to represent a moral person who endures hardship and failure. The second piece is a fu on the fanshe 反舌 or bush warbler. A fu that is only known by title is “Jiang fu” 講賦 (Fu on the lectures), which he composed in praise of Emperor Wu's lectures on a Buddhist sutra.

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子暉字景光，子雲弟也。少涉書史，亦有文才。起家員外散騎侍郎，遷南中郎記室。出爲臨安令。性恬靜，寡嗜好，嘗預重雲殿聽制講《三慧經》，退爲《講賦》奏之，甚見稱賞。遷安西武陵王諮議，帶新繁令，隨府轉儀同從事、驃騎長史，卒。