Li Tang 李棠

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0024
• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · zhoushu:046:s0251

Roles

• Envoy
• General
• Named Individual
• Official

Family

• Child of Li Bogui (李伯貴)
  Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: grandfather · Object Role: grandson · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
• Child of Li Yuanzhou (李元冑)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Line: paternal
• Parent of Li Chang (李敞)
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Line: paternal

• Kinship Role: brothers of Gao Gan · Count: 2 · Note: 高乾兄弟 unnamed plural
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0030

Career and standing

• Label: Acting Administrator of Donglai / 行東萊郡事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太昌中 · Western Year: AD 532
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0032
• Label: General Who Punishes Barbarians / 征虜將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太昌中 · Western Year: AD 532
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0032
• Label: Registrar in the Guard Army headquarters / 衛軍府功曹參軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 魏中興初 · Western Year: AD 531
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0031
• Label: aide / 掾 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0034
• Label: Attendant Gentleman of the Yellow Gate / 給事黃門侍郎 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0052
• Label: General of the Guard / 衛將軍 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0047
• Label: Grand General of Chariots and Cavalry / 車騎大將軍 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0052
• Label: Pillar of State of the Third Rank / 儀同三司 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0052
• Label: Regular Attendant / 散騎常侍 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0052
• Label: Right Grand Master of Splendid Happiness / 右光祿大夫 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0047
• Title: Duke of Guangzong / 廣宗縣公 · Action: granted · Fief: Households: 1000
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0047
• Status: orphan · Action: entered
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0029
• Status: posthumous-rites-incomplete · Action: lacked · Label: funeral adornment incomplete / 禮闕飾終
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0252

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Eastern Wei / 東魏 · Relation: served
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0033
• Polity: Northern Wei / 魏 · Relation: served
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0030, zhoushu:046:s0031
• Polity: Northern Zhou / 周 · Relation: subject-of
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0252
• Polity: Western Wei / 西魏 · Relation: served
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0047, zhoushu:046:s0053
• Place: Tiao in Bohai / 勃海蓨 · Relation: native-of
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0024

Works and attributed material

• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Addressee Person Id: Emperor Wen of Zhou (周文帝)
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0048, zhoushu:046:s0049, zhoushu:046:s0050
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Addressee Person Id: Xiao Hui (蕭撝)
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0057, zhoushu:046:s0058, zhoushu:046:s0059
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Addressee Person Id: Xi Shouxing (奚壽興)
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0041, zhoushu:046:s0042, zhoushu:046:s0043, zhoushu:046:s0044
• Kind: historian-appraisal · Role: subject · Quoted: false
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0251, zhoushu:046:s0252

Events and relationships

• Kind: military · Role: officer · Action: campaigned-against-Shu · Other Person Id: Yuchi Jiong (尉遲迥)
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0053, zhoushu:046:s0054
• Kind: loyalty-under-peril · Role: participant · Action: faced-peril-without-bending · Other Person Id: Liu Gui (柳檜)
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0251
• Kind: political · Role: aide · Action: helped-seize-Shouxing-and-offered-surrender · Other Person Id: Gao Zhongmi (高仲密)
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0038, zhoushu:046:s0041, zhoushu:046:s0045, zhoushu:046:s0046
• Kind: military · Role: participant · Action: raised-troops · Place: Xindu / 信都 · Other Person Id: Gao Gan (高乾)
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0030

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: funeral rites less fully honored than Liu Gui's raised favor, showing partiality in Northern Zhou governance · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0252
• Assessment: loyal minister who would not change purpose · Provenance: Mode: self-report · Speaker Person Id: Li Tang (李棠)
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0059
• Assessment: stalwart will and steadfast feeling comparable to green pine and white jade · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0251