Guan Li (關禮) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Guan Li as an eunuch and official. This record brings together 9 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Guan Li	關禮	Guan Li
Given	Li	禮

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · songshi:469:s0005

Roles

Eunuch
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 孝宗崩 · Western Year: AD 1194
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:469:s0152
Source Date: Text: 淳熙末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1174 · End: AD 1189
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:469:s0150
Source Date: Text: 高宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1127 · End: AD 1162
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:469:s0149

Career and standing

Label: Inner Entering Director / 入內內侍省都知 · Action: appointed
Explicit · songshi:469:s0163

Places and affiliations

Label: Song / 宋 · Relation: served
Explicit · songshi:469:s0149

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: praiseworthy eunuch after the crossing south · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · songshi:469:s0166

References in the histories

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History of Song, Chapter 469Volume 469 Biographies 228: Eunuchs 4: Shao Chengzhang, Lan Gui Kanglu, Feng Yi, Zhang Quwei, Chen Yuan, Gan Bian, Wang Deqian, Guan Li, Dong Songchen · 9 passages

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馮益張去為陳源甘王德謙關禮董宋臣 Feng Yi, Zhang Quwei, Chen Yuan, Gan Bian, Wang Deqian, Guan Li, and Dong Songchen

關禮，高宗朝宦者。 Guan Li was a eunuch of Gaozong’s reign.

明日，汝愚再遣侂胄附宗尹以奏，未獲命而侂胄退，與禮遇，禮知其意，問之，侂胄不以告。 Next day Ruyu sent Tuozhou again through Zongyin; before an answer came Tuozhou met Li; Li sensed the plot and asked; Tuozhou would not tell.

禮指天自誓不言，侂胄遂白其事，禮即入宮，泣告太后以時事可憂之狀，且曰：“留丞相已去，所恃者趙知院耳。 Li swore by Heaven he would keep silent; Tuozhou then confided; Li rushed in weeping to tell the empress dowager the realm was in peril: “Chancellor Liu is gone—we have only Director Zhao.

禮曰：“知院未去，恃有太后耳。 Li said, “He stays only because you remain.

太后悟，遂命禮傳旨侂胄以諭汝愚，約明日太后垂簾上其事。 She understood, ordered Li to tell Tuozhou to inform Ruyu, and set the morrow for a curtained audience.

尋除禮入內內侍省都知，又差兼重華、慈福宮承受，充提舉皇城司，遷中侍大夫。 Li was made Inner Entering Director, receiver for Chonghua and Cifu palaces, superintendent of the Imperial City Office, and Palace Attendant Grandee.

禮不以功自居，乞致仕，不許； Li refused merit; he begged to retire—denied;

南渡後，內侍可稱者惟邵成章與禮雲。 After the flight south, only Shao Chengzhang and Li among eunuchs deserve praise.