Li Guochang (李國昌)

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Guochang as a royal family member and ruler. This record brings together 4 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Li Guochang	李國昌	Li Guochang
Given	Guochang	國昌	Guochang
Temple name	Later Tang's founding ancestor	獻祖
Personal name	Li Guochang	李國昌	Li Guochang
Temple name	Offering Ancestor	獻祖
Temple	Xianzu	獻祖	Xianzu
Temple name		後唐獻祖

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:143:s0007
Sex: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:069:s0002

Roles

Royal Family Member
Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 後唐長興元年九月 · Lunar Month: 9 · Western Year: AD 930
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:143:s0007
Source Date: Text: 後唐 · Western Year: AD 923
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:069:s0002
Source Date: Text: 獻祖討龐勳 · Western Interval: Start: AD 860 · End: AD 874
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:050:s0017

Family

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Parent of Li Keyong (李克用)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Parent of Li Kejian (李克儉)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Parent of Li Kegong (李克恭)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Parent of Li Kerou (李克柔)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Sibling of Decheng (德成)
Kinship Term: paternal uncle of Keyong's father-line / 從父 · Parentage: biological · Line: paternal

Kinship Role: sons · Count: 4 · Note: per Xin Tangshu chancellor lineage table: Ke Gong, Ke Jian, Ke Yong, Ke Rou
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:050:s0119

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 50Volume 50 Book of Later Tang 26: Biographies 2: Imperial Family · 2 passages

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父德成，初為天寧軍使，從獻祖討龐勳，以功授朔州刺史。 His father Decheng had first served as military commissioner of Tianning. He followed the Offering Ancestor against Pang Xun and, for his service, was made prefect of Shuozhou.

〈（案《新唐書·宰相世係表》：嗣昭，國昌有子四人：克恭、克儉、克用、克柔。 (According to the 《New Book of Tang·Tables of Chancellor Lineages》: Sizhao—Guochang had four sons: Ke Gong, Ke Jian, Ke Yong, and Ke Rou.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 143Volume 143: Treatises 5 Rites 2 · 1 passage

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聖朝中興，重修宗廟，今太廟見饗高祖、太宗、懿宗、昭宗、獻祖、太祖、莊宗七廟，太祖景皇帝在祧廟之數，不列廟饗。 After the dynasty's revival the ancestral shrines were rebuilt; the Imperial Temple now served seven halls—the High Ancestor, Great Ancestor, Yizong, Zhaozong, Xianzu, Taizu, and Zhuangzong—while Grand Ancestor Emperor Jing was relegated to the distant-lineage shrine and no longer received regular temple offerings.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 69Volume 69: Hereditary House of Nanping · 1 passage

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本名季昌，避後唐獻祖廟諱，更名季興。 He had originally been named Jichang, but to avoid the taboo on the temple name of Later Tang's founding ancestor, he took the name Jixing.