Lady Li (李婕妤) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Lady Li as a consort. This record brings together 2 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	Lady Li	李婕妤	Lǐ Jiéyú

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Value: female
Explicit · hanshu:093:s0033

Roles

Consort

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 成帝時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 33 · End: BC 25
Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:093:s0033

Events and relationships

Relation: intermediary-for · Person Id: Daughter of Wang Shang (王商女) · Statement: her household was used to present Wang Shang's daughter
Explicit · hanshu:093:s0033

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 93Volume 82: Wang Shang, Shi Dan and Fu Xi · 2 passages

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及商以閨門事見考，自知為鳳所中，惶怖，更欲內女為援，乃因新幸李婕妤家白見其女。 Once Wang Shang faced investigation over domestic scandal, he realized Wang Feng had set him up. In panic he tried to push his daughter into the palace as a counterweight and used the household of the newly favored Lady Li to present her.

商不盡忠納善以輔至德，知聖主崇孝，遠別不親，後庭之事皆受命皇太后，太后前聞商有女，欲以備後宮，商言有固疾，後有耿定事，更詭道因李貴人家內女，執左道以亂政，誣罔悖大臣節，故應是而日蝕。 Wang Shang has not served with full loyalty or accepted good counsel to support your supreme virtue. Knowing that a sage ruler honors filial piety and that the empress dowager governs the inner palace, he refused when the empress dowager earlier asked for his daughter for the harem, pleading chronic illness. After the Geng Ding affair he tried again through the household of the newly favored Lady Li to smuggle a daughter inside. He practices heterodox ways that corrupt government and violates every standard of a chief minister—hence the eclipse.