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Relation	Target	Textual basis
type	person
name	南齊海陵王	default
name	齊海陵王
name	海陵王
name-style	季尚	《南齊書·卷五本紀第五海陵王》：海陵恭王昭文，字季尚，文惠太子第二子也。
born	480
died	494
ruled	dynasty:南齊
from-date 延興元年七月丁酉 494/9/10
to-date 延興元年十月壬戌 494/12/4
authority-cbdb	34008
authority-ddbc	6494
authority-wikidata	Q1190405
link-wikipedia_zh	萧昭文
link-wikipedia_en	Xiao_Zhaowen

Xiao Zhaowen (蕭昭文) (480–494), formally Prince Gong of Hailing (海陵恭王), courtesy name Jishang (季尚), was an emperor of the Chinese dynasty Southern Qi. He is known as the Prince of Hailing because that was the title he was demoted to after he was deposed by his granduncle Xiao Luan in 494. (Xiao Luan had made him emperor earlier in 494 after assassinating his brother Xiao Zhaoye.) After Xiao Luan deposed him and assumed the throne himself, he had Xiao Zhaowen poisoned.

Background

Xiao Zhaowen was born in 480, as the second son of the then-Southern Qi Price of Nan Commandery Xiao Zhangmao, the oldest son of the crown prince Xiao Ze. His mother was Xiao Zhangmao's concubine Lady Xu. Little is known about his childhood. After the death of his great-grandfather Emperor Gao in 482, his grandfather Xiao Ze became emperor (as Emperor Wu), and his father Xiao Zhangmao became Crown Prince. In 486, at age six, Xiao Zhaowen was created the Duke of Linru. In 490, he married Wang Shaoming, the daughter of the official Wang Ci (王慈), as his duchess. Early in 493, his father Xiao Zhangmao died, and his older brother Xiao Zhaoye became Crown Prince. Several months later, still in 493, Emperor Wu died as well, and Xiao Zhaoye became emperor. Xiao Zhaoye created Xiao Zhaowen the Prince of Xin'an.

Xiao Zhaoye was a frivolous and wasteful ruler, spending much time in feast and games. In fall 494, the prime minister Xiao Luan the Marquess of Xichang, cousin of Emperor Wu, seeing Xiao Zhaoye as an incompetent ruler and believing that Xiao Zhaoye was going to act against him, carried out a coup and assassinated Xiao Zhaoye. He placed Xiao Zhaowen on the throne to succeed Xiao Zhaoye.

Reign

While Xiao Zhaowen, now 14, carried the title of emperor, actual authority was in the hands of Xiao Luan, and Xiao Luan had himself initially created the Duke of Xuancheng, and then the Prince of Xuancheng. In Xiao Zhaowen's name, Xiao Luan soon carried out the executions of a large number of princes who were sons of Emperors Gao and Wu, whom he viewed as threats against himself:

• Xiao Qiang (蕭鏘), the Prince of Poyang, son of Emperor Gao

• Xiao Zilong (蕭子隆), the Prince of Sui, son of Emperor Wu

• Xiao Zimao (蕭子懋), the Prince of Jin'an, son of Emperor Wu

• Xiao Zijing (蕭子敬), the Prince of Anlu, son of Emperor Wu

• Xiao Rui (蕭銳), the Prince of Nanping, son of Emperor Gao

• Xiao Qiu (蕭銶), the Prince of Jinxi, son of Emperor Gao

• Xiao Keng (蕭鏗), the Prince of Yidu, son of Emperor Gao

• Xiao Shuo (蕭鑠), the Prince of Guiyang, son of Emperor Gao

• Xiao Jun (蕭鈞), the Prince of Hengyang, son of Emperor Gao

• Xiao Feng (蕭鋒), the Prince of Jiangxia, son of Emperor Gao

• Xiao Zizhen (蕭子真), the Prince of Jian'an, son of Emperor Wu

• Xiao Zilun (蕭子倫), the Prince of Baling, son of Emperor Wu

• Xiao Ziqing (蕭子卿), the Prince of Luling, son of Emperor Wu

Initially, Xiao Zhaowen's younger brother Xiao Zhaoxiu (蕭昭秀), the Prince of Linhai, was to be killed as well, but was spared at the last minute. In place of these imperial princes from Emperors Gao and Wu's lines, Xiao Luan, because his own sons were young, installed his nephews Xiao Yaoguang (蕭遙光), Xiao Yaoxin (蕭遙欣), and Xiao Yaochang (蕭遙昌) in important posts. Less than three months after Xiao Zhaowen became emperor, Xiao Luan issued an edict in the name of Xiao Zhangmao's wife Empress Dowager Wang Baoming, stating that Xiao Zhaowen was not sufficiently intelligent and healthy to be emperor, giving the throne to Xiao Luan, who then took the throne as Emperor Ming.

After reign

The edict deposing Xiao Zhaowen created him the title of the Prince of Hailing. About a month after he was removed from the throne, however, Xiao Luan, on pretenses that Xiao Zhaowen was ill, sent imperial physicians to see him, but instead instructed the physicians to have him poisoned. Xiao Zhaowen was given the posthumous name Gong (恭, meaning "respectful") and buried with great honors, but not imperial honors.

Era name

• Yanxing (延興 yán xīng) 494

Family

Consorts:

• Princess consort, of the Wang clan of Langya (王妃琊瑯王氏), personal name Shaoming (韶明)

Ancestry

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蕭昭文（480年 - 494年），字季尚，南朝齊的第四任皇帝，在位僅四個月。母親為宮人許氏。

蕭昭文為文惠太子蕭長懋的第二子，永明四年（486年）閏正月封為臨汝公，邑千五百戶。初為輔國將軍、濟陽太守。十年（492年）正月，轉持節、督南豫州諸軍事、南豫州刺史，將軍如故。十一年（493年），進號冠軍將軍。493年蕭昭文兄長鬱林王蕭昭業即位後，十月封昭文為新安王。

隆昌元年（494年）閏四月，以蕭昭文為揚州刺史。七月，尚書令、鎮軍大將軍、西昌侯蕭鸞刺死蕭昭業，擁立蕭昭文為帝，改年號為延興，大赦。但是政事俱操於蕭鸞之手，蕭昭文的生母許氏也沒有得到尊封。

蕭昭文剛登基，蕭鸞就被任為驃騎大將軍、錄尚書事、揚州刺史、宣城郡公。九月，蕭鸞以蕭昭文之名誅殺高帝、武帝諸子，先殺司徒鄱陽王蕭鏘、中軍大將軍隨郡王蕭子隆、南兗州刺史安陸王蕭子敬。江州刺史晉安王蕭子懋起兵，蕭鸞假黃鉞，蕭子懋敗亡，蕭鸞又殺湘州刺史南平王蕭銳、郢州刺史晉熙王蕭銶、南豫州刺史宜都王蕭鏗。十月，蕭鸞被進為太傅，領大將軍、揚州牧，加殊禮，進爵為王。蕭鸞又殺中軍將軍桂陽王蕭鑠、撫軍將軍衡陽王蕭鈞、侍中秘書監江夏王蕭鋒、鎮軍將軍建安王蕭子真、左將軍巴陵王蕭子倫、司徒廬陵王蕭子卿，且幾乎殺死蕭昭文的弟弟荊州刺史蕭昭秀。這時蕭鸞已掌控蕭昭文的起居，有一次蕭昭文想吃蒸魚菜，太官令答沒有蕭鸞的命令，不給他吃。蕭鸞諸子年幼，于是任兄子蕭遙光、蕭遙欣、蕭遙昌以要職。當月，蕭昭文被蕭鸞以嫡母皇太后王寶明名義以有病為由廢黜為海陵王，以東漢東海王劉彊之禮安置，給虎賁、旄頭、畫輪車，供奉很厚。次月，蕭昭文便被蕭鸞派去看病的醫生殺害，謚號恭。蕭鸞以劉彊之禮厚葬，但並沒有用皇帝禮。北魏趁機大舉入侵。

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