Yuan · Eunuch and Official

Li Bangning 李邦寧

Died AD 1311

Passages
17
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Bangning as an eunuch and official. This record brings together 17 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

PeriodYuan

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Li Bangning 李邦寧 Li Bangning
Given Bangning 邦寧 Bangning
Changed Baoning 保寧 Baoning
Surname Li 李 Li
Courtesy Shugu 叔固 Shugu

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Eunuch
  • Official

Life and dates

Death

  • Cause: illness / 疾 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 仁宗即位…以疾卒 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1311 · End: AD 1320
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0039

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 仁宗即位 · Western Year: AD 1311
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0029
  • Source Date: Text: 宋亡…入見世祖 · Western Year: AD 1279
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0089
  • Source Date: Text: 成宗即位 · Western Year: AD 1294
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0092
  • Source Date: Text: 武宗立 · Western Year: AD 1307
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0094

Family

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  • Descendant of Demao (德懋)
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
  • Descendant of Yi (頤)
    Kinship Term: great-grandfather / 曾祖 · Generation Distance: 3 · Line: paternal
  • Child of Cong (捴)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

  • Label: junior palace eunuch / 小黃門
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0088
  • Label: Commissioner of the Imperial Medical Office / 太醫院使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 成宗即位 · Western Year: AD 1294
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0092
  • Label: Grand Academician of the Zhaowen Hall / 昭文館大學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 成宗即位 · Western Year: AD 1294
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0092
  • Label: Pingzhang Political Commissioner of the Jiang-Zhe Branch Secretariat / 江浙行省平章政事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武宗立 · Western Year: AD 1307
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0094
  • Label: acting Grand Minister of Agriculture / 行大司農 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0020
  • Label: Chancellor (nominal) / 遙授丞相 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0020
  • Label: Commissioner of the Imperial Wardrobe Office / 尚服院使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0020
  • Label: Grand Academician of the Hall of Gathered Talents / 集賢院大學士 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0038
  • Label: Grand Minister of Education / 大司徒 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0020
  • Label: Grand Ritual Commissioner / 大禮使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0025
  • Label: Intendant of the Imperial Belt Treasury / 御帶庫提點 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0091
  • Label: Intendant of the Imperial Medical Office / 提點太醫院事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0091
  • Label: Opening the Office with Equal Protocol to the Three Excellencies / 開府儀同三司 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0038
  • Label: overseeing the Imperial Medical Office / 領太醫院事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0020
  • Label: Junior Supervisor of the Seals and Insignia Office / 章佩少監 · Action: promoted
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0091
  • Label: Minister of Rites / 禮部尚書 · Action: transferred
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0091
  • Label: Grand Master of Splendid Happiness with Golden Seal and Purple Ribbon / 金紫光祿大夫 · Action: held
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0020
  • Status: eunuch · Action: held
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0006, yuanshi:204:s0088

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Skill: Mongol script and foreign languages / 國書及諸蕃語 · Level: mastered
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0090

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: words-worthy-of-praise · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0006
  • Item: thousand ingots of paper money / 鈔千錠 · Relation: refused · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 仁宗即位 · Western Year: AD 1311
    Explicit · yuanshi:204:s0029

Source notes

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 204Volume 204 Biographies 91: Eunuchs · 17 passages
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武宗立，命為江浙行省平章政事，邦寧辭曰：「臣以閹腐餘命，無望更生，先朝幸赦而用之，使得承乏中涓，高爵厚祿，榮寵過甚。 When Wuzong took the throne, he was appointed pingzhang political commissioner of the Jiang-Zhe Branch Secretariat. Bangning declined, saying, "I am only a castrated man spared from death; I have no hope of a new life. The previous emperor mercifully pardoned and employed me, letting me fill a post among the palace attendants — rank, salary, and honors already far beyond my deserts.
點視畢，至位立，殿戶方辟，忽大風起，殿上及兩廡燭盡滅，燭台底鐵鐏入地尺，無不拔者，邦寧悚息伏地，諸執事者皆伏。 After the inspection was complete he took his place; the hall doors had just opened when a violent wind sprang up. Every candle in the main hall and side corridors went out, and the iron sockets of the stands were driven a foot into the floor — not one remained upright. Bangning lay trembling on the ground, and all the officiants did the same.