Li Jing (李景) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Jing as a ruler. This record brings together 24 passages from 7 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Li Jing	李景	Li Jing
Personal	Jing	景
Given	Jing	景	Jǐng
Given name	Jing	景
Personal name	Jing	景
Personal	Li Jing	李景
Personal name	Li Jing	李景	Lǐ Jǐng
Personal name	Li Jing	李景
Title	lord of Jiangnan	江南國主
Title	Southern Tang ruler	偽主

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:012:s0071
Sex: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:032:s0084, xinwudaishi:049:s0074, xinwudaishi:069:s0085

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 世宗征淮 · Western Year: AD 956
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:069:s0085
Source Date: Text: 周世宗征淮 · Western Year: AD 956
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:032:s0084, xinwudaishi:032:s0085
Source Date: Text: 周師南征，李景陳兵於淮 · Western Interval: Start: AD 955 · End: AD 958
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:050:s0097
Source Date: Text: 周師征淮 · Western Year: AD 956
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0075
Source Date: Text: 契丹滅晉 · Western Year: AD 947
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:049:s0074
Source Date: Text: 明年正月 · Western Year: AD 957
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:032:s0095
Source Date: Text: 显德三年二月 · Western Year: AD 956
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:012:s0071
Source Date: Text: 显德五年三月 · Western Year: AD 958
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:012:s0116
Source Date: Text: 顯德六年 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:119:s0066
Source Date: Text: 顯德六年十月辛丑 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:120:s0078

Family

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Parent of Li Hongji (李宏冀)
Kinship Term: heir / 世子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Places and affiliations

Label: Later Zhou / 周 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:119:s0066, jiuwudaishi:119:s0137
Label: Southern Tang / 南唐 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · xinwudaishi:069:s0085
Polity: Southern Tang / 南唐 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · xinwudaishi:032:s0083, xinwudaishi:032:s0084
Polity: Southern Tang / 唐 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · xinwudaishi:012:s0071
Polity: Southern Tang / 江南 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0074

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Shizong (世宗)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:119:s0147

Events and relationships

Kind: appointment · Role: appointing-ruler · Action: appointed · Other Person Id: Huangfu Hui (皇甫暉)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0074, xinwudaishi:049:s0075
Relation: kin-of · Person Id: Prince Qi Jingda (齊王景達) · Kinship Term: Prince Qi / 齊王
Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:032:s0093

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · xinwudaishi:032:s0084

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 119Volume 119 Book of Later Zhou 21: Shizong Annals 6 · 5 passages

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泉州節度使劉從效遣別駕王禹錫奉貢於行在，帝以泉州比臣江南，李景方歸奉國家，不欲奪其所屬，但錫詔褒美而已。 Liu Congxiao of Quanzhou sent Vice Prefect Wang Yuxi with tribute to the temporary court. The Emperor judged that Quanzhou stood in the same relation as a Jiangnan subject, and since Li Jing had only just returned to allegiance, he did not wish to seize another's domain and merely issued an edict of commendation.

世宗既下江北，駐蹕於建安，以書召偽主。 After Shizong had crossed to the north bank of the Yangzi, he halted at Jian'an and summoned the Southern Tang ruler by letter.

偽主惶恐，命鐘謨、李德明為使，以見世宗。 The Southern Tang ruler was alarmed and sent Zhong Mo and Li Deming as envoys to see Shizong.

及見偽主，具陳世宗英烈之狀，非四方所能敵。 When they saw their ruler, they described Shizong's heroic bearing in full—not to be matched anywhere under heaven.

偽主計無所出，遂上表服罪，且乞保江南之地，以奉宗廟、修職貢，其詞甚哀。 Their ruler could devise no plan and submitted a memorial confessing guilt, begging to keep Jiangnan to serve his ancestral temple and maintain tribute; the wording was deeply plaintive.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 120Volume 120 Book of Later Zhou 22: Emperor Gong Annals · 1 passage

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辛丑，江南國主李景來告，世子宏冀卒，遣禦廚使張延範充吊祭使。 On xinchou Li Jing of Jiangnan reported the death of his heir Hongji; Zhang Yanfan of the Imperial Kitchen was sent as condolence envoy.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 12Volume 12 Later Zhou Annals 3: Shizong, Emperor Gong · 4 passages

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甲戌，李景来求成，不答。 On jiaxu Li Jing of Southern Tang sued for peace; the court gave no reply.

壬午，景使其臣钟谟来奉表。 On renwu Li Jing sent his minister Zhong Mo with a formal petition.

乙巳，杀李景之臣孙晟。 On yisi Sun Sheng, a Southern Tang minister of Li Jing, was put to death.

三月辛亥，李景来买宴。 On xinhai in the third month Li Jing came in person to tender submission at a feast.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 32Volume 32 Biographies of Martyrs to Virtue 12: Wang Yanzhang · 7 passages

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李景使掌親軍，以為武昌軍節度使。 Li Jing put him in charge of the imperial guard and made him governor of Wuchang.

周師征淮，先遣李穀攻自壽春，景遣將劉彥貞拒周兵，以仁贍為清淮軍節度使，鎮壽州。 When Zhou marched on the Huai, Li Gu struck first from Shouchun. Jing sent Liu Yanzhen to meet the Zhou army and made Renzhan governor of Qinghuai, stationed at Shou.

攻之百端，自正月至於四月不能下，而歲大暑，霖雨彌旬，周兵營寨水深數尺，淮、淝暴漲，炮舟竹龍皆飄南岸，為景兵所焚，周兵多死。 Every assault failed from the first month to the fourth. Heat hammered the land; rain fell ten days straight. Zhou camps stood knee-deep in water; the Huai and Fei rose in flood. Catapult barges and Bamboo Dragons drifted south and Jing’s men burned them; Zhou dead piled up.

景亦遣其元帥齊王景達等列砦紫金山下，為夾道以屬城中。 Jing sent his commander-in-chief Prince Qi Jingda to camp below Purple Gold Mountain and build a covered road into the city.

明年正月，世宗復至淮上，盡破紫金山砦，壞其夾道，景兵大敗，諸將往往見擒，而景之守將廣陵馮延魯、光州張紹、舒州周祚、泰州方訥、泗州範再遇等，或走或降，皆不能守，雖景君臣亦皆震懾，奉表稱臣，願割土地、輸貢賦，以效誠款，而仁贍獨堅守，不可下。 First month of the next year Shizong returned to the Huai, smashed the Purple Gold Mountain camps, broke the covered road, and routed Jing’s army. Generals fell one after another; Feng Yanlu of Guangling, Zhang Shao of Guang, Zhou Zuo of Shu, Fang Ne of Tai, Fan Zaiyu of Si—commanders fled or surrendered and could not hold. Jing king and court shook, sent tribute, ceded land, bowed as subjects—Renzhan alone held and would not yield.

世宗使景所遣使者孫晟等至城下示之，仁贍子崇諫幸其父病，謀與諸將出降，仁贍立命斬之，監軍使周廷構哭於中門救之，不得，於是士卒皆感泣，願以死守。 Shizong paraded Jing’s envoy Sun Sheng below the walls. Renzhan’s son Chongjian, seeing his father ill, plotted surrender with the generals. Renzhan ordered him killed on the spot. Supervisor Zhou Tinggou wept at the middle gate in vain; the soldiers wept and swore to die with the city.

李景聞仁贍卒，亦贈太師。 When Li Jing heard Renzhan was dead, he too posthumously made him Grand Preceptor.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 49Volume 49 Miscellaneous Biographies 29: Di Guangye, Feng Hui, Huang Fuhui, Tang Jingsi, Wang Jin, Chang Si, Sun Fangjian · 3 passages

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契丹犯闕，暉率其州人奔於江南，李景以為歙州刺史、奉化軍節度使，鎮江州。 When the Khitan took the capital, Fuhui fled south with his prefecture. Li Jing made him prefect of She and commissioner of Fenghua at Jiang.

周師征淮，景以暉為北面行營應援使，屯清流關，為周師所敗，並其都監姚鳳皆被擒。 Zhou marched on the Huai. Jing named Fuhui northern relief commissioner and posted him at Qingliu Pass. Zhou broke him and took him with his overseer Yao Feng.

景思有奴，嘗有所求不如意，即馳見弘肇，言景思與李景交通，而私畜兵甲。 Jingsi had a slave whose wish went unmet; the man galloped to Hongzhao and said Jingsi trafficked with Li Jing and hid arms.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 50Volume 50 Miscellaneous Biographies 30: Wang Jun, Wang Yin, Liu Ci, Wang Huan, Zhe Congruan · 3 passages

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初，周師南征，李景陳兵於淮，舟楫甚盛，周師無水戰之具，世宗患之，乃置造船務於京城之西，為戰艦數百艘，得景降卒，教之水戰。 When Zhou first marched south, Li Jing massed boats on the Huai. Zhou had no river gear. Shizong founded a shipyard west of the capital, built hundreds of warships, and had Jing’s surrendered men teach river war.

蜀卒與環俱擒者，世宗不殺，悉以從軍，後多南奔於景，世宗待環益不疑。 Shu men captured with Huan, Shizong spared and kept in the ranks. Many later fled south to Jing, yet Shizong trusted Huan all the more.

已而景將許文縝、邊鎬等皆被擒，世宗悉以為將軍，與環等列第京師，歲時賜與甚厚。 Soon Li Jing’s generals Xu Wenzhen, Bian Hao, and the rest were taken. Shizong made them all generals, lodged them with Huan and the others in capital estates, and lavished seasonal gifts on them.

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

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李景稱臣，世宗得保融所與箋，大喜，賜以絹百匹。 When Li Jing submitted, Shizong obtained Baorong's memorial and was delighted, rewarding him with a hundred bolts of silk.