Li Shan (立山) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Shan as an administrator, official, and statesman. This record brings together 10 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 Shan	立山	Li Shan
Clan	Tumet	土默特氏
Courtesy	Yufu	豫甫	Yufu
Posthumous	Zhongzhen	忠貞	Zhongzhen

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0092

Roles

Administrator
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Regnal Year: 26 · Western Year: AD 1900
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0026, qingshigao:466:s0106, qingshigao:466:s0013

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 宣統元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1909
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:466:s0107
Source Date: Text: 二十年 · Regnal Year: 20 · Western Year: AD 1894
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:466:s0096, qingshigao:466:s0093
Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Regnal Year: 26 · Western Year: AD 1900
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:466:s0098, qingshigao:466:s0093
Source Date: Text: 光緒五年 · Regnal Year: 5 · Western Year: AD 1879
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:466:s0093
Source Date: Text: 七月既望 · Western Year: AD 1900
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:466:s0026, qingshigao:466:s0024, qingshigao:466:s0013

Origins and identity

Ethnicity: Mongol / 蒙古
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0092

Career and standing

Label: Minister of Revenue / 戶部尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Regnal Year: 26 · Western Year: AD 1900
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0098, qingshigao:466:s0093
Label: Suzhou weaving supervisor / 蘇州織造 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒五年 · Regnal Year: 5 · Western Year: AD 1879
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0093
Label: Director of the Imperial Parks / 奉宸苑卿 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0095
Label: Superintendent of the Imperial Household / 總管內務府大臣 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0095
Label: Vice Commander of the Plain White Banner Chinese Brigade / 正白旗漢軍副都統 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0095
Label: Vice Minister of Revenue / 戶部侍郎 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0095
Label: posthumous title Zhongzhen / 忠貞 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宣統元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1909
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0107
Label: Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent / 太子少保 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十年 · Regnal Year: 20 · Western Year: AD 1894
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0096, qingshigao:466:s0093
Label: second-rank court dress / 二品服 · Action: granted
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0094
Label: condemned to death / 論死 · Action: suffered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Regnal Year: 26 · Western Year: AD 1900 · Authority Person Id: Zaiyi (載漪)
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0106, qingshigao:466:s0013
Label: demotion for lax supervision / 鐫職留任 · Action: suffered
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0097

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0092
Place: outside Xuanwu Gate / 宣武門外 · Relation: enshrined-at
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0124
Organization: Plain Yellow Banner / 正黃旗 · Relation: member-of
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0092

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Text: 拳民雖無他，然其術多不驗 · Quoted: true · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Regnal Year: 26 · Western Year: AD 1900
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0102, qingshigao:466:s0013
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Text: 首言戰者載漪也 · Quoted: true · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Regnal Year: 26 · Western Year: AD 1900
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0104, qingshigao:466:s0105, qingshigao:466:s0013

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: envied for imperial favor · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0099
Assessment: one of the Five Loyal Ones · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0128

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 466Volume 466 Biographies 253: Xu Yongyi, Xu Jingcheng, Yuan Chang, Li Shan, Lian Yuan · 10 passages

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用儀、景澄、昶及尚書立山、內閣學士聯元並言：「奸民不可縱，外为不可啟。」 Yongyi, Jingcheng, Chang, Minister Li Shan, and Hanlin Bachelor Lian Yuan jointly declared, "Riotous mobs must not be indulged, and foreign conflict must not be started."

遂與立山、聯元同棄市。 He was then publicly executed together with Li Shan and Lian Yuan.

立山，字豫甫，土默特氏，蒙古正黃旗人。 Li Shan, courtesy name Yufu, of the Tumet clan, was a Mongol of the Plain Yellow Banner.

立山久典內廷，同列嫉其寵眷。 Long in charge of the inner court, he was envied by colleagues for imperial favor.

載漪盛推拳民可用，立山適在側，太后謂：「汝言如何？」 Zaiyi loudly insisted the Boxers could be used; Li Shan stood nearby when the Empress Dowager asked, "What do you say?"

立山曰：「拳民雖無他，然其術多不驗．」載漪怒曰：「用其心耳，奚問術？ Li Shan replied, "The Boxers may mean well, but their magic seldom works." Zaiyi snapped, "We need their loyalty—why quibble over tricks?

立山必與外人通，請以立山退外兵！」 Li Shan must be colluding with foreigners—send him to make the foreign troops withdraw!"

立山曰：「首言戰者載漪也！ Li Shan answered, "Zaiyi was the first to urge war!

宣統元年，追諡忠貞。 In Xuantong 1 he received the posthumous title Zhongzhen, Loyal and Steadfast.

順天府奏請立山、聯元合祠宣武門外，而聯元祖居寶坻，更於其地建專祠焉。 Shuntian requested a joint shrine to Li Shan and Lian Yuan outside Xuanwu Gate; because Lian Yuan's family came from Baodi, a separate shrine was built there as well.