Ancient China · Son of a Handan relay-station officer who died in the sortie

Li Tong 李同

Died BC 257

Passages: 5
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Li Tong was a Son of a Handan relay-station officer who died in the sortie.

Life and dates

Death

BC 257 李同戰死
died in battle 戰死
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 76, passage 80

Attested activity

BC 257 有謝李同
Strongly inferred · Book of Northern Qi 11, passage 229
BC 257 李同戰死
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 76, passage 80

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Father of Li Tong / Marquis of Li (李侯)
father 父
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 76, passage 80

Key source chapters

Works and attributed material

Siege counsel · Speaker · Addressed to Lord of Pingyuan (平原君)
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 76, passages 70, 72-76

Events and relationships

Led three thousand in sortie and drove Qin back thirty li
BC 257 秦急圍邯鄲 · Military · Commander
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 76, passages 77-78
Relation Counselor of · Person Lord Pingyuan (平原)
Strongly inferred · Book of Northern Qi 11, passage 229

Assessments and attributes

Assessment benchmark of persuasiveness against which Xiaoheng is measured · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passage 229

Source notes

son of a Handan relay-station officer 邯鄲傳舍吏子
Parental status
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 76, passage 70

References in the histories

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 11Volume 11 Biographies 3: Six Princes of Wenxiang · 1 passage

廣甯請出後宮，竟不獲遂，非孝珩辭致，有謝李同，自是後主心識，去平原已遠。 Prince Xiaoheng of Guangning asked to send out the palace women, but the request was never granted. It was not that Xiaoheng lacked Li Tong's persuasiveness; the Later Lord's judgment was already far removed from Pingyuan.

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 76Biographies of Lord Pingyuan and Yu Qing · 4 passages

邯鄲傳舍吏子李同說平原君曰：「君不憂趙亡邪？」 Li Tong, the son of a relay-station officer in Handan, advised Lord Pingyuan, saying: "My lord, do you not worry that Zhao will perish?"

李同曰：「邯鄲之民，炊骨易子而食，可謂急矣，而君之後宮以百數，婢妾被綺縠，餘粱肉，而民褐衣不完，糟糠不厭。 Li Tong said: "The people of Handan are cooking bones and trading children for food—this can truly be called desperate. Yet Your Lordship's rear palace numbers in the hundreds, your concubines are clothed in silk and satin, and you have surplus fine grain and meat. Meanwhile, the people wear incomplete coarse garments and are not sated even with bran and husks.

李同遂與三千人赴秦軍，秦軍為之卻三十里。 Li Tong took these three thousand men straight against the Qin army, and the Qin withdrew thirty li before them.

李同戰死，封其父為李侯。 Li Tong died in the fighting, and his father was enfeoffed as the Marquis of Li in his honor.