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

Li Tong 李同

Lǐ Tóng

Died BC 257

Passages
4
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Tong as a soldier. This record brings together 4 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

RolesSoldier

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Li Tong 李同 Lǐ Tóng
Personal name Li Tong 李同 Lǐ Tóng

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Soldier

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: died in battle / 戰死 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 李同戰死 · Western Year: BC 257
    Explicit · shiji:076:s0080

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 李同戰死 · Western Year: BC 257
    Explicit · shiji:076:s0080

Family

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  • Child of Father of Li Tong / Marquis of Li (李侯)
    Parentage: biological · Kinship Term: father / 父 · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
    Parentage: biological · Kinship Term: father / 父 · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: led-three-thousand-in-sortie-and-drove-Qin-back-thirty-li · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 秦急圍邯鄲 · Western Year: BC 257
    Explicit · shiji:076:s0077, shiji:076:s0078

Source notes

  • Statement: son of a Handan relay-station officer / 邯鄲傳舍吏子 · Kind: parental-status
    Explicit · shiji:076:s0070

References in the histories

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