Xie Daoyun is the niece of Prime Minister Xie An, and Xie Lingyun (the grandson of Xie Daoyun's younger brother Xie Xuan) is Xie Daoyun's great-nephew.
Xie Daoyun’s family members:
1. Biological father: General Xie Yi of Anxi.
2. Biological mother: Ruan Rong, from Ruan Ji and Ruan Xian tribe.
3. Younger brothers: Xie Jinu, Xie Tanyuan, Xie Yuan, Xie You, Xie Jing, Xie Huo, Xie Kang, Xie Xuan (his son Xie Qian and his grandson Xie Lingyun).
4. Younger sisters: Xie Daorong, Xie Dacan, and Xie Daohui. Xie Daoyun is the eldest daughter.
5. Uncle: Prime Minister Xie An.
6. Husband: Wang Ningzhi, courtesy name Shuping, the second son of Wang Xizhi.
7. Children: Xie Daoyun and Wang Ningzhi have four sons (Yunzhi, Pingzhi, Hengzhi, Enzhi), and one daughter married the Yu family when she became an adult. According to the "Book of Jin·Biography of Women", all Xie Daoyun's children were killed in the Sun En Rebellion.
Extended information
Xie Daoyun (year of birth and death unknown), courtesy name Lingjiang, was a female poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. She was the niece of Prime Minister Xie An and the daughter of General Xie Yi of Anxi. She was also a famous calligrapher. The wife of Wang Ningzhi, the second son of Wang Xizhi.
During the Lu Xun Sun En Rebellion, her husband Wang Ningzhi was the internal historian of Kuaiji, but the defense was weak and he escaped and was captured and killed. When Xie Daoyun heard that the enemy was coming, he acted calmly and went out with a knife to kill several enemies before he was caught. Sun En felt his integrity and pardoned Dao Yun and his clan members. After Wang Ning's death, Xie Daoyun lived alone in Kuaiji and never remarried.
Xie Daoyun was good at poetry and prose. Liu Xiao's annotation of "Shishuo Xinyu·Yu" cited "Women's Collection" as saying: Xie Daoyun had literary talent, and his poems, poems, poems and lawsuits were handed down to the world. Her work Sui Shu·Jing Ji Zhi contains two volumes of poetry collections and has been lost. "Yi Wen Lei Ju" preserves his two poems "Mountain Mountain" (also known as "Taishan Ode") and "Ode to the Pines", and "Quan Jin Wen" collects his "Ode to the Analects of Confucius".
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