Xiè Zhuāng 謝莊 (421–466), zì Xīyì 希逸, was a major LiúSòng 劉宋 court poet, minister, and ritualist of the prominent Chénjùn 陳郡 Xiè 謝 lineage — the same lineage that produced Xiè Língyùn 謝靈運, Xiè Tiǎo 謝朓 and Xiè Hùn 謝混. His biographies are Sòng shū 宋書 j. 85 and Nán shǐ 南史 j. 20 (as appendix to Xiè Hóngwēi 謝弘微); the dates 421–466 are firmly attested by both. He served at the courts of Sòng Wéndì 文帝 (424–453), Xiào Wǔdì 孝武帝 (453–464), Qiánfèidì 前廢帝, and Míngdì 明帝 (465–472), rising to Zhōngshū lìng 中書令 (Director of the Imperial Secretariat) and Grand Master of Splendid Happiness (光祿大夫). He is recorded as a ceremonial composer at the Wéndì and XiàoWǔdì courts — his protocols, edicts and ritual texts dominate the Sòng shū ceremonial chapters.
He is principally remembered today as a poet, especially for his Yuè fù 月賦 (Rhapsody on the Moon), preserved in Wén xuǎn j. 13 and translated by David R. Knechtges. His poetry is one of the principal documents of the post-Yuán-jiā 元嘉 court-poetic tradition that culminated in the Yǒngmíng 永明 style of the late Southern Qí. In the Kanripo corpus he is the attributed author of KR3a0157 Jiànjiè xiàng zàn 鑒戒象讚 — a jíyì compilation of his pictorial-encomiastic prose-poetry. CBDB has no entry.