Li Yingzhi (李應之) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Yingzhi as a diviner, healer, and official. This record brings together 6 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 Yingzhi	李應之	Li Yingzhi
Personal name	Li Yingzhi	李應之	Li Yingzhi
Personal name	Yingzhi	應之	Yingzhi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:054:s0143

Roles

Diviner
Healer
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: killed in mutiny; corpse not found
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:054:s0150

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 處直有疾 · Western Interval: Start: AD 900 · End: AD 910
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:054:s0144

Family

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Parent of Wang Du (王都)
Kinship Term: raised as his own son / 養為己子 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: adoptive-father · Object Role: adoptive-son

Career and standing

Label: sorcerer / 妖人
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:054:s0143
Label: campaign secretary / 行軍司馬 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:054:s0145

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:054:s0143

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 54Volume 54 Book of Later Tang 30: Biographies 6: Wang Rong, Wang Zhaohui, Wang Chuzhi · 6 passages

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鎔遣使告急莊宗，莊宗命周德威率兵應之； Rong urgently appealed to Emperor Zhuangzong, who ordered Zhou Dewei to lead troops in response;

初，有妖人李應之得於村落間，養為己子。 At first a sorcerer named Li Yingzhi obtained him in a village and raised him as his own son.

及處直有疾，應之以左道醫之，不久病間，處直神之，待為羽人。 When Chuzhi fell ill, Yingzhi treated him with heterodox medicine. Before long the illness abated, and Chuzhi regarded him as divine and treated him as an immortal.

處直時未有子，應之以都遺於處直曰：「此子生而有異。」 Chuzhi then had no son. Yingzhi presented Du to him, saying, "This child was born with something extraordinary."

其後應之閱白丁於管內，別置新軍，起第於博陵坊，麵開一門，動皆鬼道。 Thereafter Yingzhi reviewed common conscripts within the jurisdiction, separately established a new army, built a mansion in Boling Ward with a door facing outward, and every action followed demonic ways.

會燕師假道，伏甲於外城，以備為不虞，昧旦入郭，諸校因引軍以圍其第，應之死於亂兵，鹹雲不見其屍，眾不解甲。 When Yan troops requested passage, they concealed armor in the outer city as a precaution, entered the walled town at dawn, and the commanders led troops to surround Yingzhi's residence. Yingzhi died among the disorderly soldiers, and though no corpse was seen, the troops did not remove their armor.