Xiè Tiǎo 謝朓 (464–499), zì Xuánhuī 玄暉, native of Chénjùn Yángxià 陳郡陽夏 (modern Tàikāng 太康 in Hénán), was the central poetic talent of the Southern-Qí Yǒngmíng tǐ 永明體 / “Eight Friends of Jìnglíng” (Jìnglíng bā yǒu 竟陵八友) — the salon of the Jìnglíng Wáng 竟陵王 Xiāo Zǐliáng 蕭子良. With Shěn Yuē 沈約 he was a co-developer of the prosodic principles (sì shēng bā bìng 四聲八病) that would mature in Táng regulated verse. He held a series of court and provincial offices: zhōngshūláng 中書郎 (twice), Xuānchéng tàishǒu 宣城太守 (whence the conventional title Xiè Xuānchéng 謝宣城), Jìnān Wáng zhènběi zīyì 晉安王鎮北諮議, Nán Dōnghǎi tàishǒu 南東海太守, xíng Nán Xúzhōu shì 行南徐州事, and finally Shàngshū lìbù láng 尚書吏部郎. He was framed in 499 by Jiāng Sì 江祀 and others on a charge of conspiring against the Qí Dōnghūnhóu 東昏侯 and starved to death in prison at age 36 sui. Standard biography in Nán Qí shū 47 and Nán shǐ 19. His writings survive in KR4b0012 Xiè Xuānchéng jí 謝宣城集.
The catalog meta gives his death year as 494 and writes his name 謝眺 (with the eye-radical 目); standard scholarship and Nán Qí shū both give 499 (he was killed in the Yǒngyuán 1 / 499 political crisis under the Dōnghūnhóu) and the canonical name Xiè Tiǎo 謝朓 with the moon-radical 月. The 眺 spelling is a known graphic substitution found in some later transmissions; the 494 dating is unaccounted for and appears to be a catalog error. CBDB does not register 謝朓 directly. Lǐ Bái’s poetry repeatedly invokes Xiè Tiǎo as the one Six-Dynasties poet whom every Táng master continually invoked: Xuānzhōu Xiè Tiǎo lóu jiànbié Jiàoshū Shū Yún 宣州謝朓樓餞別校書叔雲, etc.