Li Mi (李謐) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Mi as a hermit, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 12 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Li Mi	李謐	Li Mi
Title	former recluse	故處士
Surname	Li	李	Li
Personal name	Li Mi	李謐	Li Mi
Given	Mi	謐	Mi
Posthumous name	Recluse of Upright Stillness	貞靜處士	Zhenjing chushi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · weishu:096:s0226

Roles

Hermit
Scholar
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Cause: sudden violent illness / 暴疾 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 其年（延昌四年） · Western Year: AD 515
Explicit · weishu:096:s0247

Age

Age: 32 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 延昌四年卒，年三十二 · Western Year: AD 515
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:096:s0247

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 其年（延昌四年） · Western Year: AD 515
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Source Date: Text: 十三 · Western Year: AD 496
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Source Date: Text: 十歲 · Western Year: AD 493
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:096:s0226
Source Date: Text: 年十八 · Western Year: AD 501
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:096:s0229

Family

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Sibling of Li Yang (李瑒)
Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger · Subject Role: younger-brother · Object Role: elder-brother
Child of Father of Li Mi
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Origins and identity

Label: Zhao commandery Li clan / Li Anshi line / 趙郡李氏 · Related Person Ids: Li Anshi (李安世), Li Xiaobo (李孝伯)
Strongly inferred · weishu:096:s0273, weishu:096:s0282

Career and standing

Title: Recluse of Upright Stillness / 貞靜處士 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · weishu:096:s0251
Status: declined-summons · Label: repeatedly declined summons / 屢辭徵辟
Explicit · weishu:096:s0250

Places and affiliations

Polity: Northern Wei / 北魏 · Relation: under
Strongly inferred · weishu:096:s0226
Place: Zhao commandery / 趙郡
Explicit · weishu:096:s0226, weishu:096:s0242, weishu:096:s0278, weishu:096:s0281
Place: cliff dwellings / rock rooms / 依巖鑿室 · Relation: resided-at
Explicit · weishu:096:s0246

Learning and skills

Label: mastered Filial Piety Classic, Analects, Mao Odes, and Documents / 通孝經、論語、毛詩、尚書 · Age: 13
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Skill: calendrical arts / 歷數之術 · Level: excelled
Explicit · weishu:096:s0228

Works and attributed material

Work: Thicket of the Spring and Autumn / 春秋叢林 · Relation: author · Extent: twelve scrolls / 十有二卷
Explicit · weishu:096:s0231
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quote: A man with ten thousand scrolls—why need a hundred cities facing south? / 丈夫擁書萬卷，何假南面百城。 · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Li Mi (李謐)
Explicit · weishu:096:s0237
Kind: treatise · Role: author · Topic: Mingtang · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Li Mi (李謐)
Explicit · weishu:096:s0292, weishu:096:s0293, weishu:096:s0295, weishu:096:s0297, weishu:096:s0300

Events and relationships

Kind: scholarly · Role: author · Action: compiled-classics-collation
Explicit · weishu:096:s0231, weishu:096:s0232
Kind: scholarly · Role: visitor · Action: consulted-on-phonology · Other Person Id: Liu Fang (劉芳)
Explicit · weishu:096:s0241
Kind: personal · Role: deceased · Action: died-of-sudden-illness
Explicit · weishu:096:s0247
Kind: ritual · Role: honoree · Action: gate-and-lane-marked · Details: Gate: Literary Virtue / 文德 · Lane: Filial Duty / 孝義
Explicit · weishu:096:s0251, weishu:096:s0252
Kind: scholarly · Role: subject · Action: lost-father-at-ten
Explicit · weishu:096:s0226
Kind: scholarly · Role: student · Action: studied-under · Other Person Id: Kong Fan (孔璠)
Explicit · weishu:096:s0229
Relation: clansman-of · Person Id: Li Xiaobo (李孝伯)
Strongly inferred · weishu:096:s0273
Relation: clansman-of · Person Id: Li Anshi (李安世)
Strongly inferred · weishu:096:s0282
Relation: student-of · Person Id: Kong Fan (孔璠)
Explicit · weishu:096:s0229

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: compared to Hui, Kang, and Xuan Yan · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker: edict
Explicit · weishu:096:s0251
Assessment: deeply praiseworthy recluse-Confucian conduct · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker: edict
Explicit · weishu:096:s0250
Assessment: divine child · Label: divine child / 神童 · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source: district and village
Explicit · weishu:096:s0228