Yuan · Eunuch and Official

Li Bangning 李邦寧

First attested AD 1279; died AD 1311 to AD 1320

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Li Bangning was an eunuch and Official.

PeriodYuan
IdentityHistorical · Male

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TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Changed name Baoning 保寧 Baoning
Courtesy name Shugu 叔固 Shugu

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17 passages

History of Yuan, Chapter 204Volume 204 Biographies 91: Eunuchs · 17 passages
武宗立,命為江浙行省平章政事,邦寧辭曰:「臣以閹腐餘命,無望更生,先朝幸赦而用之,使得承乏中涓,高爵厚祿,榮寵過甚。 When Wuzong took the throne, he was appointed pingzhang political commissioner of the Jiang-Zhe Branch Secretariat. Bangning declined, saying, "I am only a castrated man spared from death; I have no hope of a new life. The previous emperor mercifully pardoned and employed me, letting me fill a post among the palace attendants — rank, salary, and honors already far beyond my deserts.
點視畢,至位立,殿戶方辟,忽大風起,殿上及兩廡燭盡滅,燭台底鐵鐏入地尺,無不拔者,邦寧悚息伏地,諸執事者皆伏。 After the inspection was complete he took his place; the hall doors had just opened when a violent wind sprang up. Every candle in the main hall and side corridors went out, and the iron sockets of the stands were driven a foot into the floor — not one remained upright. Bangning lay trembling on the ground, and all the officiants did the same.