Ancient China · Official

Li

Dates uncertain

Passages
3
Chapters
2
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Li as an official. This record brings together 3 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Li Li
Title Fire Corrector 火正
Personal name Li
Personal Li

Identity

Historicity
Legendary
Identification
Named
Sex
Uncertain

Roles

  • Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Family

  • Kinship Role: descendants · Quantity: unspecified · Note: Yao restored the descendants of Chong and Li
    Explicit · shiji:026:s0021

Career and standing

  • Label: official governing earth and people / 司地以屬民
    Explicit · shiji:026:s0019
  • Label: Fire Corrector / 火正 · Action: held
    Explicit · shiji:026:s0019

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 99Volume 87b: Yang Xiong 2 · 1 passage
Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 26Treatise on the Calendar · 2 passages