Five Dynasties · Hall academician

Li Han 李澣

Attested AD 930 - AD 969

Passages
15
Chapters
4
Histories
3

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Han as an official, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 15 passages from 4 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Li Han 李澣 Li Han
Given Han Han
Surname Li Li
Personal name Li Han 李澣 Li Han
Personal name Li Han 李澣 Lǐ Hàn
Personal name Li Huan 李澣 Lǐ Huàn

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Writer

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 應曆2年 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 952
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:006:s0024
  • Western Year: AD 947 · Source Date: Text: Chronology stated or entailed by s0037
    Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:073:s0037
  • Source Date: Text: 晉亡歸遼、太宗崩、世宗立 · Western Year: AD 947
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0136
  • Source Date: Text: 穆宗即位 · Western Interval: Start: AD 951 · End: AD 969
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0138
  • Source Date: Text: 長興中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 930 · End: AD 933
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:051:s0111, jiuwudaishi:051:s0101

Family

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  • Sibling of Li Tao (李濤)
    Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full
  • Child of Mother of Li Han
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son · Line: maternal

Career and standing

  • Label: Vice Minister of Works / 工部侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 穆宗即位 · Western Interval: Start: AD 951 · End: AD 969
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:103:s0138
  • Label: Academician of the Xuanzheng Hall / 宣政殿學士 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0153
  • Label: Hanlin Academician / 翰林學士 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0137
  • Label: Minister of Rites / 禮部尚書 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0153
  • Label: Academician of the Hall of Promulgating Governance / 宣政殿學士 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:006:s0024
  • Label: Secretariat Drafter / 中書舍人 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0135
  • Office: Hanlin academician
  • Status: confinement · Action: confined · Place: Fengguo Temple / 奉國寺 · Duration: Years: 6
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0149
  • Status: detention · Action: detained · Place: Southern Capital / 南京 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗崩、世宗立 · Western Year: AD 947
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:103:s0136
  • Status: flogged and released · Action: punished · Date: Source Date: Text: 應曆2年八月己丑 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 952
    Explicit · liaoshi:006:s0029
  • Status: pardon · Action: released · Authority Person Id: Muzong (穆宗)
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0152
  • Status: arrest · Action: seized and handed to magistrates · Place: Zhuo / Southern Capital / 涿/南京
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0141

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: famed for literary composition but career not worth discussing · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0155
  • Assessment: rich in literary learning with few equals · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Gao Xun (高勛)
    Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0148

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 51Volume 51 Book of Later Tang 27: Biographies 3: Imperial Family · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 6Volume 6 Annals 6: Muzong 1 · 2 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 103Volume 103 Biographies 33: Literature 1 · 11 passages
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 73Volume 73: Appendix on the Four Barbarians 2: Khitan 2 · 1 passage