Xiāo Tǒng 蕭統 (501–531), zì Dé shī 德施, posthumously titled Crown Prince Zhāomíng 昭明太子 (“Brilliantly Manifest”), was the eldest son of Liáng Wǔdì 梁武帝 (Xiāo Yǎn 蕭衍) and Crown Prince of Liáng. He was an exceptionally cultivated patron of letters and Buddhism. His enduring monument is the Wén xuǎn 文選 — the Selections of Refined Literature — the first systematic anthology of Chinese poetry, fù, prose, and miscellaneous genres from the Western Hàn to his own day, compiled at his court at the Dōnggōng 東宮 in Jiànkāng 建康 ca. 526–531. He also edited the eight-juǎn recension of KR4b0008 Táo Yuānmíng jí 陶淵明集 with its foundational preface and parallel biography. He himself composed fù, shī, lùn, and Buddhist devotional pieces, surviving in KR4b0013 Zhāomíng tàizǐ jí 昭明太子集. Standard biography in Liáng shū 8 and Nán shǐ 53. He died at 31 in 531, four years before his father’s senile decline and the catastrophic Hóu Jǐng 侯景 rebellion (548–552). CBDB confirms 501–531.