Li Tao (李濤) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Tao as a family member, historian, official, and scholar. This record brings together 18 passages from 6 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Li Tao	李濤	Li Tao
Surname	Li	李	Li
Personal name	Li Tao	李濤	Li Tao
Personal	Li Tao	李濤	Lǐ Tāo
Personal	Li Tao	李涛
Personal	Tao	濤
Personal	Tao	濤	Tao

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:096:s0065, liaoshi:103:s0139
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:012:s0153

Roles

Family Member
Historian
Official
Scholar
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Explicit · jiuwudaishi:119:s0174

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 世宗在位 · Western Interval: Start: AD 954 · End: AD 959
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:119:s0165
Source Date: Text: 乾祐元年三月；罷 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0072
Source Date: Text: 天福初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 936 · End: AD 937
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:096:s0065, jiuwudaishi:096:s0059
Source Date: Text: 天福十二年九月；同平章事 · Western Year: AD 947
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0059
Source Date: Text: 显德六年七月 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:012:s0153
Source Date: Text: 穆宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 951 · End: AD 969
Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0138, liaoshi:103:s0139
Source Date: Text: 顯德六年 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:120:s0001, jiuwudaishi:120:s0070

Family

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Sibling of Li Han (李澣)
Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full
Child of Mother of Li Han
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son · Line: maternal
Sibling of Li Huan (浣)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger

Career and standing

Label: Associate Grand Councilor / 同中書門下平章事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天福十二年九月 · Western Year: AD 947
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0059
Label: Hanlin Academician / 翰林學士 · Action: held · Place: Bianjing / 汴
Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0139
Label: Reviser of the Historiography Institute / 史館修撰 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:096:s0065
Status: dismissed · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾祐元年三月丁丑 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0072

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:096:s0065

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: author · Action: memorialized-against · Other Person Id: Zhang Yanzhe (張彥澤)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:119:s0168
Kind: personal · Role: actor · Action: secretly summoned Li Han · Other Person Id: Li Han (李澣)
Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0139

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: without the bearing of a great minister · Provenance: Mode: quoted-speech · Speaker Person Id: Shizong (世宗)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:119:s0166, jiuwudaishi:119:s0182

References in the histories

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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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〈（《通鑒》：史館修撰李濤上言：張全義有再造洛邑之功，乞免其族。 (Comprehensive Mirror: Li Tao of the historiography institute memorialized that Zhang Quanyi had restored Luoyang and asked that his clan be spared.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 119Volume 119 Book of Later Zhou 21: Shizong Annals 6 · 11 passages

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昭遠對曰：「以臣所見，莫若李濤。」 Zhaoyuan replied: "In my view, none is better than Li Tao."

世宗常薄濤之為人，聞昭遠之舉甚驚，曰：「李濤本非重厚，朕以為無大臣體，卿首舉此何也？」 Shizong had always disdained Tao's character; hearing the recommendation he was surprised and said: "Li Tao is not grave by nature; I consider him without the bearing of a great minister. Why recommend him first?"

且濤事晉高祖，曾上疏論邠州節度使張彥澤蓄無君心，宜早圖之，不然則為國患。 Moreover, Tao served Gaozu of Later Jin and once memorialized that Zhang Yanzhe, military commissioner of Bin, harbored disloyal intent and should be dealt with early, or he would become a national calamity.

先帝潛龍時，亦上疏請解其兵權，以備非常之變，少主不納，未幾先帝遂有天下。 When Taizu was still in obscurity, Tao also memorialized to strip him of military authority against extraordinary change; the young lord did not accept it, and before long Taizu possessed the realm.

以國家安危未兆間，濤已先見，非賢而何？ When the state's safety and peril gave no sign, Tao had already foreseen—if that is not worthiness, what is?

居無何，濤亦卒。 Before long Tao also died.

濤為人不拘禮法，與弟浣雖甚雍睦，然聚語之際，不典之言，往往間作。 Tao did not bind himself to ritual propriety. Though very close to his younger brother Huan, when they gathered to talk, unseemly words often slipped in.

浣娶禮部尚書竇寧固之女，年甲稍高，成婚之夕，竇女出參，濤輒望塵下拜，浣驚曰：「大哥風狂耶？ Huan married the daughter of Dou Ninggu, minister of rites, who was somewhat advanced in years. On the wedding night, when the bride came out to pay respects, Tao bowed low in the dust. Huan cried: "Elder brother, are you mad?