Li Ting (李珽) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Ting as a named individual, official, poet, and scholar. This record brings together 24 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 Ting	李珽	Li Ting
Courtesy	Gongdu	公度	Gongdu
Surname	Li	李	Li
Personal name	Li Ting	李珽	Li Ting
Given	Ting	珽	Ting

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0001

Roles

Named Individual
Official
Poet
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Place: Luoyang / 洛陽 · Manner: wounded by disorderly soldiers · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 內討之日 · Western Year: AD 912
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Age

Age: 24 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 年二十四登進士第 · Western Interval: Start: AD 873 · End: AD 888
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 僖宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 873 · End: AD 888
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Source Date: Text: 受禪之歲 · Western Year: AD 907
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:024:s0023
Source Date: Text: 天復中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 901 · End: AD 904
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:024:s0012, jiuwudaishi:024:s0013
Source Date: Text: 庶人友珪篡位 · Western Year: AD 912
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:024:s0041, jiuwudaishi:024:s0042

Family

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Descendant of Li Cheng (李憕)
Kinship Term: fifth-generation ancestor / 五世祖 · Generation Distance: 5 · Line: paternal
Kinship Term: fifth-generation ancestor / 五世祖 · Generation Distance: 5 · Line: paternal
Child of Li Gu (李縠)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Mother of Li Ting (李珽母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
Sibling of Li Qi (李琪)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder

Career and standing

Label: Right Regular Cavalry Attendant and lecturer attendant / 右散騎常侍，充侍講學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 友珪篡位 · Western Year: AD 912
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0041
Label: supervisor of Cao prefecture / 監曹州事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 受禪之歲 · Western Year: AD 907
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Label: investigating censor / 監察御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 拜監察御史 · Western Interval: Start: AD 873 · End: AD 888
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Label: collating clerk / 校書郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 解褐授校書郎 · Western Interval: Start: AD 873 · End: AD 888
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Label: academician of the Court for Upholding Governance / 崇政院學士 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0026
Label: acting governor of Kuangguo / 匡國軍留後 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0034
Label: acting governor of Xu / 許州留後 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0027
Label: Bureau Director in the Ministry of War / 兵部郎中 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0026
Label: chief recorder / 掌記 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0018
Label: chief secretary / 掌書記 · Action: appointed · Place: Jingzhou / 荊州
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0011
Label: Left Remonstrance Grand Master and Vice Commissioner of the Palace Secretariat / 左諫議大夫兼宣徽副使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0034
Label: Left Supplementation Censor / 左補闕 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0018
Label: secretary of the Tianping army / 天平軍掌書記 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0019
Label: Acting Director of Examination and edict drafter / 考功員外郎、知制誥 · Action: offered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 受禪之歲 · Western Year: AD 907
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0023
Status: mourning · Action: entered · Label: mourning for his mother / 丁內艱
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Places and affiliations

Label: Later Liang / 梁 · Relation: served
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Place: Dunhuang in Longxi / 隴西敦煌
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Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 年二十四登進士第 · Western Interval: Start: AD 873 · End: AD 888
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Skill: rhapsodies and fu / 詞賦 · Level: especially gifted
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Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Cheng Rui (成汭) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天復中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 901 · End: AD 904
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Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0036, jiuwudaishi:024:s0038, jiuwudaishi:024:s0039

Events and relationships

Kind: military-advice · Role: advisor · Action: advised-fleet-deployment · Other Person Id: Cheng Rui (成汭) · Place: Baling/Ezhou / 巴陵、鄂州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天復中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 901 · End: AD 904
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Kind: literary · Role: author · Action: drafted-proclamation · Other Person Id: Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0021, jiuwudaishi:024:s0022
Kind: administrative · Role: envoy · Action: received-seals-and-ran-headquarters · Other Person Id: Feng Xingxi (馮行襲)
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Kind: political · Role: subject · Action: thrice-declined-appointment · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 受禪之歲 · Western Year: AD 907
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: filial and brotherly · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0043
Assessment: true secretary · Provenance: Mode: named-person-speech · Speaker Person Id: Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0020

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 24Volume 24 Book of Later Liang 24: Biographies 14: Li Ting, Lu Ceng, Sun Zhi, Zhang Jun, Zhang Yan, Du Xunhe, Luo Yin, Chou Yin, Duan Shen · 24 passages

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李珽，字公度，隴西敦煌人。 Li Ting, styled Gongdu, came from Dunhuang in Longxi.

珽聰悟，有才學，尤工詞賦。 Ting was quick-minded, widely read, and especially gifted at rhapsodies and fu.

僖宗朝，晉公王鐸提兵柄，鎮滑台，縠居賓席，鐸見珽，大賞歎之。 During Xizong's reign Duke of Jin Wang Duo held the armies at Huatai; Gu was among his retainers; when Duo met Ting he admired him greatly.

先是，父旅殯在遠，家貧無以襄事，與弟琪當臘雪以單縗扶杖，銜哀告人，由是兩克遷祔。 His father's coffin had long lain far from home and the family was too poor to bury him properly; Ting and his brother Qi, in deep winter snow, wore plain hemp mourning and leaned on staffs as they went begging in grief until they could bring both parents home for joint burial.

而珽日不過食一溢，恒羸臥喪廬中不能興。 Ting ate barely a dipper of food a day, grew gaunt, and for long stretches could not leave the mourning hut.

成汭之鎮荊州，辟為掌書記，逾時乃就。 When Cheng Rui took Jingzhou he made Ting his chief secretary; Ting delayed some time before accepting.

珽入言曰：「今舳艫容介士千人，載稻倍之，緩急不可動。 Ting advised him: "Each ship now carries a thousand fighting men and twice as much grain—it cannot maneuver when speed matters.

淮人果乘風縱火，舟盡焚，兵盡溺，汭亦自沈於江，朗人、潭人遂入荊渚，一如所料。 The Huai did ride the wind to burn the fleet; every ship was lost and every man drowned; Cheng drowned himself in the river; Lang and Tan troops then overran Jing—exactly as Ting had foretold.

又明年，太祖為元帥，以襄陽貳於己，率兵擊破之，趙匡凝奔揚州，太祖復署珽為天平軍掌書記。 The next year, as commander-in-chief, the Founder attacked disloyal Xiangyang, broke it, and drove Zhao Kuangning to Yangzhou; he again made Ting secretary of the Tianping army.

一日，大會將佐，指珽曰：「此真書記也。」 One day at a council of officers he pointed to Ting and said, "There is a real secretary."

滄州節度使劉守文拒命，太祖引兵十餘萬圍之，久而未下，乃召珽草檄。 When Cangzhou commissioner Liu Shouwen rebelled the Founder besieged him with more than a hundred thousand men; the city held for long months, and he called on Ting to draft the assault proclamation.