Qin and Han · Military Clerk

Li Cheng 李成

Attested AD 196 - AD 220

Passages
4
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

Li Cheng was a Military Clerk.

IdentityHistorical · Male

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

Career and standing

Events and relationships

  • After five or six years gave his reserve of the powder to a fellow villager who had fallen ill, then went to Qiao to seek more from Hua Tuo, only to find him under arrest and could not bear to ask
    AD 196 to AD 220 曹操闻而召佗(无纪年) · Personal · Benefactor · With Hua Tuo (华佗)
  • Took two cash measures of Hua Tuo's powder, vomited two sheng of pus and blood and gradually recovered
    AD 196 to AD 220 曹操闻而召佗(无纪年) · Medical · Patient · With Hua Tuo (华佗)

Assessments and attributes

  • suffered bitter coughing and could not sleep day or night
    Illness · Source Text 军吏李成苦咳,昼夜不寐

References in the histories

Book of Later Han, Chapter 93Volume 82b: Biographies of Alchemists 2 · 4 passages