Ancient China · Consort

Li Ji 骊姬

Attested BC 676 - BC 651

Passages
2
Chapters
2
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Ji as a consort and named individual. This record brings together 2 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Li Ji 骊姬 Li Ji
Personal Lady Li Ji
Personal Li Ji Li Ji
Personal name Li Ji 驪姬 Li Ji

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Female

Roles

  • Consort
  • Named Individual

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 昔者晉獻公 · Western Interval: Start: BC 676 · End: BC 651
    Explicit · shiji:099:s0161
  • Source Date: Text: 晋国之难祸起于丽 · Western Interval: Start: BC 657 · End: BC 651

Family

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  • Spouse of Duke Xian of Jin (晉獻)
    Kinship Term: consort / 姬 · Union Category: concubinage · Relationship State: active
  • Parent of Xi Qi (奚齊)
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Events and relationships

  • Kind: political · Role: instigator · Action: caused-calamity-in-Jin

References in the histories

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Book of Later Han, Chapter 89Volume 80a: Biographies of Writers 1 · 1 passage
Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 99Biographies of Liu Jing and Shusun Tong · 1 passage