Li Song (李崧) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Song as an official, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 14 passages from 9 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Li Song	李崧	Lǐ Sōng
Personal	Li Song	李崧
Personal name	Li Song	李崧	Lǐ Sōng
Personal name	Li Song	李崧	Li Song
Personal name	Li Song	李崧
Personal name	Song	崧
Given name	Song	崧
Given	Song	崧	Song

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:096:s0017, xinwudaishi:029:s0029
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:127:s0062, liaoshi:076:s0184
Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:042:s0133
Value: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0056, xinwudaishi:073:s0017

Roles

Official
Scholar
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Western Year: AD 947 · Source Date: Text: Chronology stated or entailed by s0017
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:073:s0017
Source Date: Text: 天福中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 936 · End: AD 944
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:096:s0015, jiuwudaishi:096:s0017
Source Date: Text: 太宗克汴 · Western Year: AD 947
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0184
Source Date: Text: 契丹犯京师 · Western Year: AD 946
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:029:s0029, xinwudaishi:029:s0046
Source Date: Text: 晉 · Western Interval: Start: AD 936 · End: AD 946
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:127:s0062
Source Date: Text: 紀年語境（天福2年） · Western Year: AD 937
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:008:s0056
Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:042:s0133
Source Date: Text: 開封尹趙瑩為中書令，李崧守侍中、樞密使。 · Western Year: AD 945
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:009:s0158
Source Date: Text: 開運三年十二月 · Western Year: AD 946
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:085:s0045

Career and standing

Label: Privy council academician; formerly Left Reminder and direct privy councilor / 樞密直學士、左拾遺、直樞密院 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0133
Label: co-grand councilor / 同中書門下平章事 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0056
Label: commissioner of military affairs / 樞密使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0056
Label: vice director of the Secretariat / 中書侍郎 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0056
Label: chancellor of Jin / 相晉 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0062
Label: Palace Secretary and Bureau commissioner / 侍中、樞密使 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:009:s0158

Places and affiliations

Polities: Later Jin
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0017

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Shi Chonggui (石重貴)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:085:s0079

Events and relationships

Event: attended Wuyu’s banquet · Kind: historical-event · Action: attended Wuyu’s banquet
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0017
Kind: legal · Role: advocate · Action: defended · Other Person Id: Chen Baoji (陳保極)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:096:s0017

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 42Volume 42 Book of Later Tang 18: Mingzong Annals 8 · 1 passage

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以左拾遺、直樞密院李崧充樞密直學士。 Left Reminder Li Song, direct privy councilor, became privy council academician.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 85Volume 85 Book of Later Jin 11: Emperor Shao 4 · 2 passages

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是夜，偵知張彥澤已至滑州，召李崧、馮玉、李彥韜入內計事，方議詔河東劉知遠起兵赴難，至五鼓初，張彥澤引蕃騎入京。 That night scouts reported Zhang Yanzhe at Huazhou; Li Song, Feng Yu, and Li Yantao were called in to deliberate and were debating an edict for Liu Zhiyuan of Hedong to march to the rescue when at the fifth watch Zhang Yanzhe led Khitan cavalry into the capital.

又使人詣李崧求酒，崧曰：「臣有酒非敢愛惜，慮陛下杯酌之後憂躁，所作別有不測之事，臣以此不敢奉進。」 He also sent to Li Song for wine; Song said, "I have wine and would not begrudge it, but I fear that after you drink in grief you might do something desperate; for that I dare not send it."

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 96Volume 96 Book of Later Jin 22: Biographies 11: Kong Chongbi, Chen Baoji, Wang Yu, Zhang Jizuo, Zhen Ruan, Hu Rao, Liu Suiqing, Fang Gao, Meng Chenghui, Liu Jixun, Zheng Shouyi, Cheng Xun, Li Yu, Zheng Xuansu, Ma Zhongji, Chen Xuan · 1 passage

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即以詔追赴闕，將下臺鍛成其事，同列李崧極言以解之，因令所司就所居鞫之，貶為衛尉寺丞，仍奪金紫。 An edict immediately recalled him to the capital. The authorities were about to hand him over to the censorate and manufacture a criminal case, but his colleague Li Song argued forcefully on his behalf. The court then ordered an inquiry at his home. He was demoted to assistant director in the Court of Imperial Regalia and stripped of his gold seal and purple robe.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 127Volume 127 Book of Later Zhou 29: Biographies 7: Lu Wenji, Ma Yisun, He Ning, Su Yugui, Jing Fan · 1 passage

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李崧相晉，用李專美為贊善，裔孫以賓客致仕，專美轉少卿，裔孫得太子詹事。 When Li Song served Jin, he made Li Zhuanmei aide to the heir; Yisun retired as guest, Zhuanmei rose to vice director, and Yisun became grand mentor of the heir.

History of Liao, Chapter 76Volume 76 Biographies 6: Yelu Jieli, Yelu Balide, Yelu Shuogu, Yelu Lubugu, Zhao Yanshou, Gao Mohan, Zhao Siwen, Yelu Oulisi, Zhang Li · 2 passages

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後太宗克汴，延壽因李崧求為皇太子，上曰：「吾於魏王雖割肌肉亦不惜，但皇太子須天子之子得為，魏王豈得為也？」 After Taizong had conquered Bian, Yanshou used Li Song to ask to be made crown prince. The emperor said, "For the Prince of Wei I would cut away my own flesh without regret, but only a son of the Son of Heaven may be crown prince—how could the Prince of Wei become one?"

蓋上嘗許滅晉後，以中原帝延壽，以故摧堅破敵，延壽常以身先，至是以崧達意。 The emperor had once promised that after destroying Jin he would make Yanshou emperor of the Central Plains; for that reason he had broken fierce enemies, and Yanshou often took the lead in person—now Li Song conveyed his wish.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 8Volume 8 Later Jin Annals 1: Gaozu · 1 passage

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戊寅，兵部侍郎李崧為中書侍郎、同中書門下平章事，樞密使。 On wuyin Li Song, vice minister of war, entered the Secretariat as co-grand councilor and commissioner of military affairs.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 9Volume 9 Later Jin Annals 2: the Emperor That Fled · 1 passage

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開封尹趙瑩為中書令，李崧守侍中、樞密使。 Zhao Ying, metropolitan magistrate of Kaifeng, became director of the Secretariat; Li Song kept his posts as palace secretary and Bureau commissioner.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 29Volume 29 Later Jin Biographies 9: Sang Weihan, Jing Yanguang, Wu Luan · 4 passages

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帝欲骤黜维翰，大臣刘昫、李崧皆以为不可，卒以玉为枢密使，既而以为相，维翰日益见疏。 The emperor meant to oust Weihan at once. Liu Xu and Li Song forbade it. Feng Yu took Military Affairs, then the chief councillor’s seat; Weihan faded.

维翰行，遇李崧，立马而语，军吏前白维翰，请赴侍卫司狱。 Weihan met Li Song on the road and spoke from horseback. An officer said he was bound for the Guard Bureau prison.

维翰知不免，顾崧曰：「相公当国，使维翰独死？」 Weihan knew the end. He said to Song: “You ran the realm—must I die alone?”

崧惭不能对。 Song flushed and was silent.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 73Volume 73: Appendix on the Four Barbarians 2: Khitan 2 · 1 passage

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兀欲妻，延壽以為妹，五月朔旦，兀欲召延壽及張礪、李崧、馮道等置酒，酒數行，兀欲謂延壽曰：「妹自上國來，當一見之。」 On the first day of the fifth month Wuyu invited Yanshou, Zhang Li, Li Song, Feng Dao, and others to drink; after several rounds he said, "My wife has just arrived from the north—she is your sister by marriage and you should meet her."