Li Si'an (李思安) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Si'an as an administrator, general, military officer, and official. This record brings together 11 passages from 9 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Li Si'an	李思安	Li Si'an
Personal name	Li Si'an	李思安	Li Si'an
Personal name	Li Si'an	李思安	Lǐ Sī'ān
Personal	Li Si’an	李思安	Li Si'an
Personal	Li Si’an	李思安	Lǐ Sī'ān
Personal	Li Sian	李思安	Li Sian

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:005:s0135, jiuwudaishi:006:s0024, jiuwudaishi:054:s0079, jiuwudaishi:073:s0070, xinwudaishi:044:s0009
Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:072:s0098, jiuwudaishi:141:s0122, xinwudaishi:002:s0016, xinwudaishi:023:s0121

Roles

Administrator
General
Military Officer
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: Kaiping 4 through Qianhua 1 · Western Interval: Start: AD 910 · End: AD 911
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:023:s0121, xinwudaishi:023:s0127
Source Date: Text: 乾化元年十二月 · Western Year: AD 911
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:073:s0068, jiuwudaishi:073:s0070
Source Date: Text: 天祐七年 · Western Year: AD 910
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:054:s0079
Source Date: Text: 夾城攻潞州 · Western Interval: Start: AD 907 · End: AD 912
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:044:s0009
Source Date: Text: 开平元年 · Western Year: AD 907
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:002:s0016
Source Date: Text: 梁開平三年春正月 · Western Year: AD 909
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:141:s0122
Source Date: Text: 汴將李思安築夾城 · Western Interval: Start: AD 906 · End: AD 910
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:072:s0098
Source Date: Text: 開平四年七月 · Western Year: AD 910
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:005:s0135
Source Date: Text: 開平四年十一月 · Western Year: AD 910
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:006:s0024

Career and standing

Label: northeast campaign commander-in-chief / 東北面行營都指揮使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平四年七月 · Western Year: AD 910
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:005:s0135
Label: vanguard commander / 先鋒使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:006:s0024
Label: commander of the Lu Prefecture campaign army / 潞州行營都指揮使 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:002:s0016
Label: Xiangzhou prefect / 相州刺史 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:006:s0024
Label: Xuanhua army acting prefect / 宣化軍留後 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:005:s0135

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: besieged · Place: Luzhou / 潞州
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:072:s0098
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Opponent: Jin forces / 晉人
Explicit · xinwudaishi:002:s0016
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: encamped-at-Baixiang · Place: Baixiang / 柏鄉 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天祐七年 · Western Year: AD 910
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:054:s0079
Kind: omen-report · Role: reporter · Action: memorialized-tree-inscription · Place: Lu Prefecture front / 潞州軍前
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:141:s0122
Kind: military · Role: subordinate commander · Action: served in Jingren's Zhao campaign and was blamed for disobeying him · Other Person Id: Wang Jingren (王景仁)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0121, xinwudaishi:023:s0127

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:054:s0079

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 5Volume 5 Book of Later Liang 5: Taizu Annals 5 · 1 passage

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以宣化軍留後李思安為東北面行營都指揮使，陝州節度使楊師厚為西路行營招討使。 Li Si’an, acting prefect of Xuanhua, became northeast campaign commander-in-chief; Yang Shihou of Shan became western-route suppression commissioner.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 6Volume 6 Book of Later Liang 6: Taizu Annals 6 · 1 passage

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以甯國軍節度使王景仁充北面行營都招討使，潞州副招討使韓勍為副，相州刺史李思安為先鋒使。 Wang Jingren, Ningguo commissioner, became overall northern campaign commander; Han Qin, Luzhou deputy, his second; Li Si’an, Xiangzhou prefect, vanguard.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 54Volume 54 Book of Later Tang 30: Biographies 6: Wang Rong, Wang Zhaohui, Wang Chuzhi · 1 passage

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又遣大將王景仁、李思安率師七萬，營於柏鄉。 He also dispatched the great generals Wang Jingren and Li Si'an with seventy thousand troops, encamped at Baixiang.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 72Volume 72 Book of Later Tang 48: Biographies 24: Zhang Chengye, Zhang Juhan, Ma Shaohong, Meng Hangqiong · 1 passage

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俄而汴將李思安築夾城以圍潞州，居翰與嗣昭登城保守，以至解圍。 Before long the Bian general Li Si'an built Jiachcheng to besiege Luzhou. Juhan and Siyao mounted the walls to hold firm until the siege was lifted.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 73Volume 73 Book of Later Tang 49: Biographies 25: Mao Zhang, Nie Yu, Wen Tao, Duan Ning, Kong Qian, Li Ye · 2 passages

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梁祖次相州，刺史李思安迎奉疏怠，梁祖怒，貶思安。 When the founder halted at Xiangzhou, Prefect Li Si'an received him with slack courtesy. The founder was enraged and demoted him.

觀明遠之忠勤若此，見思安之悖慢何如！」 Compare Mingyuan's loyalty and diligence with this, and see how Si'an's insolence and neglect measure up!"

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 141Volume 141: Treatises 3 Five Elements · 1 passage

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梁開平三年春正月，潞州軍前李思安奏，壺關縣庶穰鄉村人因伐樹倒，自分為兩片，內有六字，皆如左書，曰「天十四載石進」，乃圖其狀以進。 In the first month of spring of the third year of Kaiping of Later Liang, Li Si'an at the Lu Prefecture front memorialized that villagers of Shurang Township in Huguan County, while felling a tree, saw it fall and split in two; inside were six characters in clerical script reading "Heaven, the fourteenth year, Shi Jin." He painted its form and submitted the report.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 2Volume 2 Later Liang Annals 2: Taizu 2 · 1 passage

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是月，潞州行營都指揮使李思安及晉人戰，敗績。 That month Li Si'an, commander of the Lu Prefecture campaign army, fought the Jin forces and was defeated.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 23Volume 23 Later Liang Biographies 3: Yang Shihou, Wang Jingren, He Gui, Wang Tan, Ma Sixun, Wang Qianyu, Xie Yanzhang · 2 passages

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開平四年，以景仁為北面招討使，將韓勍、李思安等兵伐趙，行至魏州，司天監言：「太陰虧，不利行師。」 In the fourth year of Kaiping Jingren was made northern-route pacification commissioner and led Han Qing, Li Si’an, and others against Zhao. At Weizhou the Directorate of Astronomy said: “The moon is in eclipse—unfavorable for taking the field.”

是日，景仁及晉人戰，大敗於柏鄉，景仁歸訴於太祖，太祖曰：「吾亦知之，蓋韓勍、李思安輕汝為客，不從節度爾。」 That day Jingren fought the Jin and was routed at Baixiang. Jingren returned and complained to Taizu. Taizu said: “I know it too—Han Qing and Li Si’an look down on you as an outsider and would not obey your command.”

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 44Volume 44 Miscellaneous Biographies 24: Liu Zhijun, Ding Hui, He Delun, Yan Bao, Kang Yanxiao · 1 passage

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李思安為夾城攻潞州，久不下，太祖罷思安，拜知俊行營招討使，未至潞，夾城已破，徙西路行營招討使，敗邠、岐兵於幕谷。 Li Si’an had Jiacheng on Luzhou and could not crack it. Zhu Wen replaced him with Zhijun as mobile-camp pacifier. Luzhou fell before Zhijun arrived; he was moved to the western route, beat Bin and Qi at Mugui.