Li Chunfeng (李淳風)

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Chunfeng as an astrologer, astronomer, historian, and official. This record brings together 6 passages from 4 chapters across 4 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Li Chunfeng	李淳風	Li Chunfeng
Alternate name	Chunfeng	淳風	Chúnfēng
Given	Chunfeng	淳風	Chúnfēng
Surname	Li	李	Lǐ
Personal name	Li Chunfeng	李淳風	Lǐ Chúnfēng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:007:s0141, qingshigao:272:s0029, songshi:076:s0008, suishu:086:s0012

Roles

Astrologer
Astronomer
Historian
Official
Scholar
Scientist
Writer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾化二年 · Western Year: AD 912
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:007:s0141
Source Date: Text: 其後 · Western Interval: Start: AD 640 · End: AD 670
Strongly inferred · songshi:076:s0008
Source Date: Text: 唐 · Western Interval: Start: AD 618 · End: AD 907
Explicit · qingshigao:272:s0029
Source Date: Text: 皇祐初 · Western Year: AD 1049
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:076:s0011
Source Date: Text: 貞觀十五年 · Western Year: AD 641
Explicit · suishu:086:s0012

Career and standing

Label: court astrologer / calendrical official / 太史令
Explicit · suishu:086:s0012
Label: Grand Astrologer / 太史令 · Action: held
Explicit · suishu:086:s0012

Places and affiliations

Polity: Tang / 唐 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · suishu:086:s0012

Works and attributed material

Work: treatises on astronomy, calendrical systems, and the Five Phases / 天文、律曆、五行三志 · Relation: author
Explicit · suishu:086:s0031
Work: Li Chunfeng's Turning Heaven Song / 李淳風轉天歌 · Relation: attributed-author
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:007:s0141

Events and relationships

Kind: scholarly · Role: compiler · Action: commissioned · Object: treatises of the Five Dynasties history / 五代史志
Explicit · suishu:086:s0012
Kind: scholarly · Role: maker · Action: made-armillary-instrument
Explicit · songshi:076:s0008
Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Li Yanshou (李延壽)
Explicit · suishu:086:s0012
Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Wei Anren (韋安仁)
Explicit · suishu:086:s0012
Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Yu Zhining (于志寧)
Explicit · suishu:086:s0012

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 7Volume 7 Book of Later Liang 7: Taizu Annals 7 · 1 passage

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先是，民間傳讖曰：「五公符」，又謂之「李淳風轉天歌」，其字有「八牛之年」，識者以「八牛」乃「硃」字，則太祖革命之應焉。 Earlier folk prophecy spoke of "Five Lords' tally," also called Li Chunfeng's Turning Heaven Song, containing "the year of eight oxen"—readers saw eight oxen as the character Zhu, presaging Taizu's rise.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 272Volume 272 Biographies 59: Tang Ruowang, Yang Guangxian, Nan Huai Ren · 1 passage

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羲和而後，如漢洛下閎、張衡，唐李淳風、僧一行，於曆法代有損益。 Since the calendar minister Xihe, Han had Luoxia Hong and Zhang Heng, Tang had Li Chunfeng and the monk Yixing—each age revised the calendar in turn.

History of Song, Chapter 76Volume 76 Treatises 29: Measures and Calendar 9 · 2 passages

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其後，陸績、王蕃、孔挺、斛蘭、梁令瓚、李淳風並嘗製作。 Later, Lu Ji, Wang Fan, Kong Ting, Hu Lan, Liang Lingzan, and Li Chunfeng each produced instruments of their own.

皇祐初，又命日官舒易簡、于淵、周琮等參用淳風、令瓚之制，改鑄黃道渾儀，又為漏刻、圭表，詔翰林學士錢明逸詳其法，內侍麥允言總其工。 Early in the Huangyou era, the court again ordered the solar officials Shu Yijian, Yu Yuan, and Zhou Cong to draw on the designs of Li Chunfeng and Liang Lingzan, recast an ecliptic armillary sphere, and also build clepsydra graduations and a gnomon table; Hanlin Academician Qian Mingyi was directed to work out the methods, and Inner Attendant Mai Yunyan to supervise construction.

Book of Sui, Chapter 86Volume 86: the Second Year of the Tian Sheng Reign Publication Mark · 2 passages

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十五年，又詔左僕射于志寧、太史令李淳風、著作郎韋安仁、符璽郎李延壽同修五代史志。 In the fifteenth year, another edict commissioned Left Vice Director Yu Zhining, Grand Astrologer Li Chunfeng, Academician Wei Anren, and Seal Keeper Li Yanshou jointly to compile the treatises for the Five Dynasties history.

天文、律曆、五行三志，皆淳風獨作。 The treatises on astronomy, calendrical systems, and the Five Phases were all written by Li Chunfeng alone.