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Overview The translated histories identify Li Kuangwei as a general, named individual, ruler, and warlord. This record brings together 17 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names Type English Chinese Pinyin
Personal
Li Kuangwei
李匡威
Li Kuangwei
Personal name
Kuangwei
匡威
Kuangwei
Surname
Li
李
Li
Personal name
Li Kuangwei
李匡威
Li Kuangwei
Title
Prince of Yan
燕王
Yan Wang
Identity
Historicity Historical
Identification Named
Sex Male Roles General Named Individual Ruler Warlord Life and dates Death Attested activity Events and relationships Kind: military ·
Role: commander ·
Action: aided-Wang-Rong ·
Other Person Id: Wang Rong (王熔) ·
Place: Zhen/Zhao / 鎮 ·
Date Context: Source Date: Text: 景福二年春Western Year: AD 893Kind: political ·
Role: perpetrator ·
Action: attempted-seize-Wang-Rong ·
Other Person Id: Wang Rong (王熔) ·
Date Context: Source Date: Text: 景福二年五月Western Year: AD 893Kind: political ·
Role: victim ·
Action: killed-by ·
Other Person Id: Wang Rong (王熔) References in the histories Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 54 Volume 54 Book of Later Tang 30: Biographies 6: Wang Rong, Wang Zhaohui, Wang Chuzhi · 16 passages
自是燕帥李匡威頻歲出軍，以為鎔援。
Thereafter the Yan commander Li Kuangwei marched out year after year to aid Rong.
時匡威兵勢方盛，以鎔衝弱，將有窺圖之志。
Kuangwei's forces were then at their strongest, and seeing Rong young and vulnerable, he began to contemplate seizing his domain.
景福二年春，匡威率精騎數萬，再來赴援，會匡威弟匡儔奪據兄位，匡威退無歸路，鎔乃延入府第，館於寶壽佛寺。
In the spring of the second year of Jingfu, Kuangwei led tens of thousands of elite cavalry to aid Rong once more. His younger brother Kuangchou had meanwhile seized his place, leaving Kuangwei nowhere to return. Rong therefore welcomed him into his mansion and lodged him at Baoshou Buddhist Temple.
鎔以匡威因己而失國，又感其援助之力，事之如父。
Because Kuangwei had lost his domain on Rong's account and because Rong was deeply grateful for his aid, Rong treated him like a father.
五月，鎔謁匡威於其館，匡威陰遣部下伏甲劫鎔，抱持之。
In the fifth month Rong visited Kuangwei at his quarters. Kuangwei secretly ordered his men to lie in wait in armor and seize Rong, holding him fast.
鎔軍拒之，竟殺匡威。
Rong's troops resisted, and in the end they killed Kuangwei.
鎔本疏瘦，時年始十七，當與匡威並轡之時，電雨驟作，屋瓦皆飛。
Rong was slight and thin by nature and was then only seventeen. As he rode beside Kuangwei, a sudden thunderstorm broke and roof tiles flew from the buildings.
告急於燕王，李匡威率師五萬來救之。
Rong urgently appealed to the Prince of Yan, and Li Kuangwei led fifty thousand troops to the rescue.
燕王聞之，躬領五萬騎徑與晉師戰於元氏，晉師敗績。
When the Prince of Yan heard this, he personally led fifty thousand cavalry to meet the Jin army head-on at Yuanshi and defeated them.
趙王感燕王之德，椎牛灑酒，大犒於稾城，輦金二十萬以謝之。
Grateful for the Prince of Yan's aid, Prince Zhao slaughtered cattle and poured libations, hosted a grand feast at Gaocheng, and sent two hundred thousand in gold as thanks.
燕王歸國，比及境上，為其弟匡儔所拒，趙人以其有德於我，遂營東圃以居之。
On his return the Prince of Yan was blocked at the border by his brother Kuangchou. Because the Zhao people felt indebted to him, they built the Eastern Garden for his residence.
燕王自以失國，又見趙王之幼，乃圖之。
Having lost his realm and seeing Prince Zhao's youth, the Prince of Yan then plotted against him.
燕王以為然，遂與趙王並轡而進。
The Prince of Yan agreed and rode side by side with Prince Zhao as they went forward.
左右軍士既見主免難，遂逐燕王。
Once the guards saw their lord safe, they drove off the Prince of Yan.
燕王退走於東圃，趙人圍而殺之。
The Prince of Yan retreated to the Eastern Garden, where Zhao forces surrounded and killed him.
趙王既免燕王之難，召墨生以千金賞之，兼賜上第一區，良田萬畝，仍恕其十死，奏授光祿大夫。）〉
After escaping this danger, Prince Zhao summoned the Ink Scholar and rewarded him with a thousand gold pieces, a top residence, ten thousand mu of fertile fields, exemption from ten death sentences, and a memorial appointing him Grand Master for Splendorous Enjoyment.) 〉
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 71 Volume 71 Book of Later Tang 47: Biographies 23: Ma Yu, Si Kongting, Cao Tingyin, Xiao Xifu, Yao Zongzhi, Jia Fu, Ma Gao, Luo Guan, Chun Yuyan, Zhang Ge, Xu Ji, Zhou Xuanbao · 1 passage