Li Daoyuan 酈道元

Other names

Family

• Child of Fan (範)
  son 子
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 224

• Kinship Role brothers · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 242

Career and standing

• acting Intendant of Henan 行河南尹
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 229
• Attendant Imperial Censor for Legal Documents 治書侍御史
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 226
• Director of the Imperial Censors 御史中尉
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 232
• General Who Pacifies the South 安南將軍
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 232
• General Who Supports the State 輔國將軍
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 227
• Governor of Eastern Jingzhou 東荊州刺史
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 227

Places and affiliations

• Polity Northern Wei 北魏 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passages 225, 230
• Polity Northern Wei 北魏 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · Book of Wei 95, passages 266, 268
• Polity Wei 魏 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · Book of Wei 95, passages 1, 5
• At Fanyang 范陽 · Relation Native of
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 223

Learning and skills

• loved learning and read widely in rare books 好學，歷覽奇書
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 240

Works and attributed material

• Works Commentary on the Water Classic 注水經, Local Records 本志, Seven Embassies 七聘
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 241
• Commentary on the Water Classic in forty juan 注水經四十卷
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 241
• Local Records in thirteen chapters 本志十三篇
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 241
• Seven Embassies 七聘
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 241
• Biography of Li Daoyuan in the History of the Northern Dynasties 北史酈道元傳
  Relation Subject of
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passages 266-267
• Cruel Officials biography in the Book of Wei 魏書酷吏酈道元傳
  Relation Subject of
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passages 268, 270

Events and relationships

• Arrested Qiu Nian, executed him despite pardon edict, and impeached Prince Yue
  Legal · Prosecutor · With Qiu Nian (丘念)
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passages 236-238
• Bearing the staff of authority, planned frontier prefecture establishments with Li Chong
  AD 515 to AD 528 肅宗改鎮為州 · Administrative · Envoy planner · With Li Chong (李崇)
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Wei 95, passage 231
• Sent as Guanxi envoy through Yue's persuasion and killed by Xiao Baoyin at Yinyan post station
  AD 527 蕭寶夤反狀稍露時 · Political · Victim · With Xiao Baoyin (蕭寶夤) · At Yinyan post station 陰盤驛亭
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Wei 95, passage 239
• Relation Recommended by · Person Li Biao (李彪)
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 226

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment contemporary opinion looked down on him and his brothers for disharmony and suspicion · Mode named-source-report Source Work contemporary opinion 時論
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 242
• Assessment governed with ferocity and harshness · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 228
• Assessment long bore a reputation for severity and fierceness · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 233

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passages 1, 266
• In the Northern History his biography is attached to the biography of Li Fan in juan 27; this juan narrates him in more detail than the Northern History.
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passages 267-268, 270