Overview
Lady Li was a Yuan Heng's mother; daughter of Wei Minister of Works Li Chong; engineered the family's escape to Chang'an.
Life and dates
Attested activity
- c. AD 534 to c. AD 547 齊神武帝以亨父在關西，禁錮之Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 54, passage 117
Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
- Parent of Li Chong (李沖)daughter 女Directly stated · Book of Sui 54, passage 118
- Child of Li Chong (李沖)daughter 女Directly stated · Book of Sui 54, passage 118
- Parent of Yuan Heng (元亨)mother 母Directly stated · Book of Sui 54, passage 116
- Spouse of Jihai (季海)MarriageStrongly inferred · Book of Sui 54, passages 115-116
Events and relationships
- Feigned hardship to obtain travel permitFlight · Planner · At Xingyang 滎陽 · Detail feigned hunger and cold to request permission to travel for food, deceiving the Qi authoritiesDirectly stated · Book of Sui 54, passages 118-119
- Fled in secret toFlight · Planner · At Chang'an 長安 · With Person Id Yuan Heng (元亨) · With Li Changshou (李長壽) · Detail secretly enlisted the magnate Li Changshou and led Heng and eight orphaned nephews on hidden paths to Chang'anDirectly stated · Book of Sui 54, passage 120
Assessments and attributes
- shrewd and resourceful by nature (素有智謀)CharacterDirectly stated · Book of Sui 54, passage 118
References in the histories
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