Li Qiyun 李棲筠

Other names

Family

• Kin of Li Hua (李華)
  clansman (junior) 族子 · paternal line
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 6
• Parent of Son of Li Qiyun (李棲筠子)
  son 子
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 29

• orphaned in childhood; both parents deceased
  Kinship Role parents · Count 2
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 2

Origins and identity

• his family had been people of Zhao for generations
  At Zhao 趙
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 1

Career and standing

• supreme training commissioner and observation commissioner of Zhexi 浙西都團練觀察使
  AD 768 to AD 770 即拜棲筠浙西都團練觀察使圖之 · Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 33
• chief clerk of Guanshi 冠氏主簿
  AD 748 to AD 755 始，居汲共城山下，華固請舉進士 · Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 8
• acting investigating censor 攝監察御史
  AD 755 常清被召 · Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 10
• vice director of the Ministry of Personnel, concurrent Southern Bureau 吏部員外郎，判南曹
  AD 757 to AD 760 時大盜後 · Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 14
• junior tutor to the heir apparent 太子中允
  AD 761 會峴去相 · Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 17
• army marshal and concurrent grain commissioner 行軍司馬，兼糧料使
  AD 759 to AD 761 李光弼守河陽 · Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 18

Places and affiliations

• Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 146, passages 8, 11
• At Zhao 趙
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 1
• AD 764 to AD 768 元載忌之，出為常州刺史
  At Changzhou 常州 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 25
• AD 768 to AD 770 即拜棲筠浙西都團練觀察使圖之
  At Zhexi 浙西 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 33
• AD 748 to AD 755 始，居汲共城山下，華固請舉進士
  At foot of Gongcheng Mountain in Ji 汲共城山下 · Relation Resided at
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 7
• AD 748 to AD 755 始，居汲共城山下，華固請舉進士
  At Guanshi 冠氏 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 8

Learning and skills

• sat the jinshi examination at Li Hua's urging
  AD 748 to AD 755 始，居汲共城山下，華固請舉進士
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 7
• Earned
  AD 748 to AD 755 始，居汲共城山下，華固請舉進士 · Credential Presented Scholar (jinshi), top rank 進士高第
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 7
• Skill learning and many subjects 書 · Level mastered many fields
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 4
• Skill prose writing 文章 · Level vigorous, swift, and structurally sound
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 4

Works and attributed material

• Biographies of Filial Sons and Brothers 孝友傳
  Relation Displayed for instruction
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 28
• Asked that mill dams on the Zheng and Bai canals be demolished
  Memorial · Author
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 24
• Asked that powerful families be taxed on actual production rather than transferred registers
  Memorial · Author
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 38
• Memorial · Subject of recommendation · With Feng Changqing (封常清) · packet English attributes the memorial to Qiyun; Chinese 表 follows Changqing's recall
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 10

Events and relationships

• Agreed Yang Guan's examination proposal was right
  AD 763 是時，楊綰以進士不鄉舉 · Deliberation · Discussant · With Yang Guan (楊綰)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 21
• Arrayed arms and sent gifts to Xu Gao's camp, winning the troops and breaking the plot
  AD 768 to AD 770 即拜棲筠浙西都團練觀察使圖之 · Military diplomatic · Commander · With Xu Gao (許杲)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 34
• Dredged canals and irrigated fields during drought, producing a bumper harvest
  AD 764 to AD 768 元載忌之，出為常州刺史 · Hydraulic · Administrator · At Changzhou 常州
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 26
• Enlarged schools, promoted Chu Chong and He Yuan as instructors, himself held the classics to inquire their meaning; disciples numbered several hundred
  AD 768 to AD 770 即拜棲筠浙西都團練觀察使圖之 · Educational · Patron and student of the classics
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 37
• Expanded schools, displayed the Biographies of Filial Sons and Brothers, and held village drinking rites
  AD 764 to AD 768 元載忌之，出為常州刺史 · Educational · Founder
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 28
• Had mill dams demolished; annual tax rose by two million
  Hydraulic · Proposer · At Guanzhong 關中
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passages 23-24

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment bore himself like a man destined for the chancellorship · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 24
• Assessment called uncannily perceptive (神明) · Mode public-reputation
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 15
• Assessment had the talent to assist a king · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Li Hua (李華)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 6
• Assessment the public deemed the demotion unjust · Mode public-reputation
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 17
• breadth of vision, solemn, reticent, imposing physique
  Character
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 3
• did not make acquaintances rashly
  Character
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 5

Source notes

• Value historical
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 1