Ancient China · Official

Li 黎

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 3
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Li was an official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Book of Han 99, passage 175; Records of the Grand Historian 26, passage 19

Family

Kinship Role descendants · Quantity unspecified · Yao restored the descendants of Chong and Li
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 26, passage 21

Key source chapters

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 26 Treatise on the Calendar 2 passages
Book of Han, Chapter 99 Volume 87b: Yang Xiong 2 1 passage

Career and standing

official governing earth and people 司地以屬民
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 26, passage 19
Fire Corrector 火正
Held
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 26, passage 19

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 99Volume 87b: Yang Xiong 2 · 1 passage

撰《重黎》第十。 Book X, 《Chong and Li》.

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 26Treatise on the Calendar · 2 passages

顓頊受之，乃命南正重司天以屬神，命火正黎司地以屬民，使復舊常，無相侵瀆。 Zhuanxu inherited this situation and ordered Chong, the Southern Corrector, to govern heaven and attend to the spirits, and Li, the Fire Corrector, to govern earth and attend to the people. In this way he restored the old order, so that neither side invaded or profaned the other.

堯復遂重黎之後，不忘舊者，使復典之，而立羲和之官。 Yao in turn restored the descendants of Chong and Li, not forgetting the old order, and again made them administer it, establishing the offices of Xi and He.