Li Chongmei 李重美

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · jiuwudaishi:051:s0186, xinwudaishi:007:s0081, xinwudaishi:016:s0015, xinwudaishi:016:s0021
• Value: male
  Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:042:s0102

Roles

• Aristocrat
• General
• Official
• Royal Family Member

Family

• Descendant of Li Siyuan (李嗣源)
  Kinship Term: imperial grandson / 皇孫 · Generation Distance: 2 · Subject Role: grandson · Object Role: grandfather · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
• Sibling of Li Chongji (李重吉)
  Kinship Term: brother / 子 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Role: brother · Object Role: brother
• Child of Empress of the Last Emperor (末帝皇后)
  Kinship Term: mother empress / 母後 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
• Child of Last Emperor (末帝)
  Kinship Term: second son / 第二子 · Parentage: biological · Object Birth Order: 2
• Sibling of Youcheng (幼澄)
  Kinship Term: sister / 女 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Role: brother · Object Role: sister
• Child of Li Congke (李從珂)
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Career and standing

• Label: military governor of the Chengde Army / 成德軍節度使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 廢帝即位 · Western Year: AD 934
  Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:016:s0022
• Label: Vice Director of the Ministry of Merit; formerly Crown Prince aide / 司勳員外郎、太子舍人 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
  Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0102
• Label: Grand Councilor / 同中書門下平章事 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · xinwudaishi:016:s0022
• Label: Grand Guardian of Henan / 河南尹 · Action: held-concurrently
  Explicit · xinwudaishi:016:s0022
• Label: overseer of the Six Armies and all guards / 判六軍諸衞事 · Action: held-concurrently
  Explicit · xinwudaishi:016:s0022
• Label: General of the Left Guard / 左衞上將軍 · Action: held
  Explicit · xinwudaishi:016:s0022
• Label: military governor of the Tianxiong Army / 天雄軍節度使 · Action: transferred
  Explicit · xinwudaishi:016:s0022
• Title: Prince Yong / 雍王 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 清泰三年 · Western Year: AD 936
  Explicit · jiuwudaishi:051:s0186
• Title: Prince of Yong / 雍王 · Action: enfeoffed
  Explicit · xinwudaishi:016:s0022

Places and affiliations

• Place: the capital / 京師 · Relation: left-to-guard
  Explicit · xinwudaishi:016:s0024

Works and attributed material

• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Other Person Id: Empress Liu (劉後) · Summary: dissuaded burning the palace lest it burden the people and win posthumous resentment
  Explicit · xinwudaishi:016:s0028
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Summary: argued the state could not forbid people fleeing disaster when it could not protect them
  Explicit · xinwudaishi:016:s0026
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
  Explicit · jiuwudaishi:051:s0190, jiuwudaishi:051:s0191, jiuwudaishi:051:s0193

Events and relationships

• Kind: political · Role: administrator · Action: allowed-residents-to-flee-capital
  Explicit · xinwudaishi:016:s0026, xinwudaishi:016:s0027
• Kind: political · Role: advisor · Action: urged-caution-against-northern-campaign · Other Person Id: Li Congke (李從珂) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 石敬瑭反 · Western Year: AD 936
  Explicit · xinwudaishi:016:s0023

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: worthy youth who spared people and stopped palace burning · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · jiuwudaishi:051:s0199, jiuwudaishi:051:s0200
• Kind: character · Statement: bright and keen from childhood like an adult
  Explicit · xinwudaishi:016:s0021