Xiāo Yìng 蕭映

Xuānguāng 宣光. Prince of Línchuān 臨川 (enfeoffed 482), posthumously Prince Xiàn 獻王. Third son of Qí Gāodì 齊高帝 (Xiāo Dàochéng 蕭道成, 427–482), and younger brother of Qí Wǔdì 齊武帝 (Xiāo Zé 蕭賾). Native of Lánlíng 蘭陵. Successively Governor of Yáng zhōu 揚州, Jīng zhōu 荊州, and Yìng zhōu 郢州 during the Yǒngmíng era 永明 (483–493). Took part in his nephew Crown Prince Wénhuì’s 文惠太子 (see 蕭長懋) Yǒngmíng Xiàojīng seminars (see KR1f0015), where he is recorded as the questioner who pressed the Crown Prince on whether xiào 孝 can plausibly be the “root of 德” given that the cardinal virtue would seem the more fundamental category. Died in 489 at the age of 32. Biography: Nán Qí shū 南齊書 35; Nán shǐ 南史 43.