Li Derao 李德饒

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · suishu:072:s0207

Roles

• Envoy
• Family Member
• Official

Family

• Descendant of Li Che (李徹)
  Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
• Child of Li Chun (李純)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Child of Mother of Li Derao (李德饒之母)
  Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
• Sibling of Li Denian (李德佋)
  Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: younger
  Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: elder

Career and standing

• Label: Magistrate of Jinhe / 金河長 · Action: appointed · Assumption Status: had not yet taken office
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0219
• Label: Collator / 校書郎 · Action: appointed · Life Stage: at capping
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0208
• Label: Retainer of the Metropolitan Governor / 司隸從事 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大業三年 · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 607
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0210
• Label: duty in the Secretariat / 直內史省 · Action: served · Responsibility: helped manage official documents
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0208
• Label: Investigating Censor / 監察御史 · Action: transferred
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0209

Places and affiliations

• Place: Bai in Zhao commandery / 趙郡柏人 · Relation: native-of
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0204

Learning and skills

• Subject: learning and literary study · Relation: devoted-to
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0207, suishu:072:s0208

Works and attributed material

• Kind: memorial · Role: requested-envoy · Speaker Person Ids: Ge Qian (格謙), Sun Xuanya (孫宣雅) · Content Summary: the bandit chiefs promised to surrender if Derao came
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0220

Events and relationships

• Kind: official-conduct · Role: censor · Action: corrected abuses without avoiding noble and powerful kin
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0209
• Kind: diplomatic-mission · Role: envoy · Action: sent to Bohai to comfort and persuade the bandits
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0221
• Kind: condolence · Role: recipient · Other Person Id: Yang Da (楊達) · Action: Yang Da visited his hut, consoled him, and renamed his village and lane
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0218
• Kind: judicial-inspection · Role: inspector · Actions: cleared wrongful convictions, commended filial sons and dutiful brothers
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0210
• Kind: mourning · Role: mourner · Other Person Ids: Li Chun (李純), Mother of Li Derao (李德饒之母) · Actions: took no food or drink for five days, vomited several sheng of blood from grief, walked over forty li barefoot through deep winter snow in a single mourning garment
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0214, suishu:072:s0215, suishu:072:s0216
• Kind: filial-care · Role: caregiver · Other Person Ids: Li Chun (李純), Mother of Li Derao (李德饒之母) · Actions: went whole days without food during their illness, did not change his clothes for one hundred days
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0213
• Kind: filial-omen · Role: subject · Omens: sweet dew fell on his courtyard trees, doves nested on his mourning hut
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0217
• Relation: associate-of · Group Description: the foremost talents of the empire
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0212

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: his conduct and virtue were deeply esteemed despite his modest rank · Provenance: Mode: contemporary-reputation
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0211
• Assessment: intelligent, fond of learning, sincere, and respected by his clan from youth · Provenance: Mode: historian-narrative
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0207