Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and Statesman

Li Chong 李沖

Attested AD 493 - AD 493

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Li Chong was an official and Statesman.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 493 丁未
Dated from the passage context · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 117
AD 493 九月丁丑
Dated from the passage context · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passages 293, 310
AD 493 冬，十月，戊寅朔
Dated from the passage context · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 329

Career and standing

Confucian scholar-official 儒生
Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 296
Chief Secretary 尚書
Held
Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passages 293, 329
Minister of the Masters of Writing 尚書
Held
Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 117

Places and affiliations

Polity Northern Wei 魏 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 117
Polity Wei 魏 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 293

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Wei emperor (魏主)
Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passages 293-295, 310-311

Events and relationships

Begged to halt southern campaign
Political · Remonstrant · With Wei emperor (魏主)
Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passages 293-295
Ordered to build Luoyang
AD 493 冬，十月，戊寅朔 · Construction · Overseer
Dated from the passage context · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 329
Put in charge of selecting troops
Military · Overseer
Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 117

References in the histories

Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Chapter 138Volume 138 Qi Records 4 · 4 passages

丁未，魏主講武，命尚書李沖典武選。。 On the day dingwei the Wei emperor held a military review and put Minister of the Masters of Writing Li Chong in charge of selecting troops.

尚書李沖等曰：「今者之舉，天下所不願，唯陛下欲之。 Chief Secretary Li Chong and others said, "This campaign we now undertake is what all under Heaven does not wish for—only Your Majesty desires it.

李沖言於上曰：「陛下將定鼎洛邑，宗廟宮室，非可馬上行遊以待之。 Li Chong said to the emperor, "Your Majesty intends to establish the capital at Luoyang; the ancestral temples and palaces cannot be readied while you travel on horseback.

冬，十月，戊寅朔，魏主如金墉城，征穆亮，使與尚書李沖、將作大匠董爾經營洛都。 In winter, the tenth month, on the first day wuyin, the Wei emperor went to Jinyong City, recalled Mu Liang, and had him together with Chief Secretary Li Chong and Master of Works Dong Er oversee the construction of the Luoyang capital.