Song Guangsi (宋光嗣)

Overview

The translated histories identify Song Guangsi as an official and statesman. This record brings together 6 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Song Guangsi	宋光嗣	Song Guangsi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:070:s0097

Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: AD 925 · Western Year: AD 925
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:026:s0108
Source Date: Text: 同光中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 923 · End: AD 926
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:070:s0097

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Li Yan (李嚴)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:026:s0113, xinwudaishi:026:s0116

Events and relationships

Relation: marriage-kin-of · Person Id: Duke Song below Qi (岐下宋公)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:070:s0106

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 70Volume 70 Book of Later Tang 46: Biographies 22: Yuan Xingqin, Xia Luqi, Yao Hong, Li Yan, Li Renju, Kang Sili, Zhang Jingda · 3 passages

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時蜀偽樞密使宋光嗣召嚴曲宴，因以近事訊於嚴。 Song Guangsi, the bogus Shu commissioner of the Bureau of Military Affairs, invited Yan to a private banquet and questioned him about recent affairs.

光嗣曰：「餘所未知，惟岐下宋公，我之姻好，洞見其心，反覆多端，專謀跋扈，大不足信也。 Guangsi said, "I cannot speak for the rest, but Duke Song below Qi is my kinsman by marriage, and I know his heart. He is changeable and scheming, bent on domineering power, and is not to be trusted at all.

光嗣聞辯對，畏而奇之。 Guangsi heard this sharp reply and was both afraid and astonished.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 26Volume 26 Later Tang Biographies 6: Fu Xi, Wu Zhen, Kong Qian, Zhang Yanlang, Li Yan, Li Renju, Mao Zhang · 3 passages

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衍樞密使宋光嗣召嚴置酒，從容問中國事。 Wang Yan’s chief of military affairs, Song Guangsi, called Yan to wine and, at ease, asked how things stood in the Central Realm.

光嗣曰：「荊、湖、吳越非吾所知，若鳳翔則蜀之姻親也，其人反覆，其可信乎？ Guangsi said: “Jing, Hu, Wu, and Yue I cannot speak for. But Fengxiang is Shu’s kin by marriage—and kin who shift with every wind. Can you trust them?

光嗣曰：「比梁差劣爾！」 Guangsi said: “A little weaker than Liang, that is all!”