Sui and Tang · Astronomer and Calendar Scholar

Li Chunfeng 李淳風

Attested AD 640 - AD 670

Passages: 6
Chapters: 4
Histories: 4

Overview

Li Chunfeng was an Astronomer and Calendar Scholar.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 640 to AD 670 其後
Strongly inferred · History of Song 76, passage 8
AD 641 貞觀十五年
Directly stated · Book of Sui 86, passage 12

Key source chapters

History of Song, Chapter 76 Volume 76 Treatises 29: Measures and Calendar 9 2 passages
Book of Sui, Chapter 86 Volume 86: the Second Year of the Tian Sheng Reign Publication Mark 2 passages
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 7 Volume 7 Book of Later Liang 7: Taizu Annals 7 1 passage
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 272 Volume 272 Biographies 59: Tang Ruowang, Yang Guangxian, Nan Huai Ren 1 passage

Career and standing

court astrologer / calendrical official 太史令
Directly stated · Book of Sui 86, passage 12
Grand Astrologer 太史令
Held
Directly stated · Book of Sui 86, passage 12

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Book of Sui 86, passage 12

Works and attributed material

treatises on astronomy, calendrical systems, and the Five Phases 天文、律曆、五行三志
Relation Author
Directly stated · Book of Sui 86, passage 31
Li Chunfeng's Turning Heaven Song 李淳風轉天歌
Relation Attributed author
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 7, passage 141

Events and relationships

Commissioned
Scholarly · Compiler · Object treatises of the Five Dynasties history 五代史志
Directly stated · Book of Sui 86, passage 12
Made armillary instrument
Scholarly · Maker
Directly stated · History of Song 76, passage 8
Relation Colleague of · Person Li Yanshou (李延壽)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 86, passage 12
Relation Colleague of · Person Wei Anren (韋安仁)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 86, passage 12
Relation Colleague of · Person Yu Zhining (于志寧)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 86, passage 12

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 7Volume 7 Book of Later Liang 7: Taizu Annals 7 · 1 passage

先是，民間傳讖曰：「五公符」，又謂之「李淳風轉天歌」，其字有「八牛之年」，識者以「八牛」乃「硃」字，則太祖革命之應焉。 Earlier folk prophecy spoke of "Five Lords' tally," also called Li Chunfeng's Turning Heaven Song, containing "the year of eight oxen"—readers saw eight oxen as the character Zhu, presaging Taizu's rise.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 272Volume 272 Biographies 59: Tang Ruowang, Yang Guangxian, Nan Huai Ren · 1 passage

羲和而後，如漢洛下閎、張衡，唐李淳風、僧一行，於曆法代有損益。 Since the calendar minister Xihe, Han had Luoxia Hong and Zhang Heng, Tang had Li Chunfeng and the monk Yixing—each age revised the calendar in turn.

History of Song, Chapter 76Volume 76 Treatises 29: Measures and Calendar 9 · 2 passages

其後，陸績、王蕃、孔挺、斛蘭、梁令瓚、李淳風並嘗製作。 Later, Lu Ji, Wang Fan, Kong Ting, Hu Lan, Liang Lingzan, and Li Chunfeng each produced instruments of their own.

皇祐初，又命日官舒易簡、于淵、周琮等參用淳風、令瓚之制，改鑄黃道渾儀，又為漏刻、圭表，詔翰林學士錢明逸詳其法，內侍麥允言總其工。 Early in the Huangyou era, the court again ordered the solar officials Shu Yijian, Yu Yuan, and Zhou Cong to draw on the designs of Li Chunfeng and Liang Lingzan, recast an ecliptic armillary sphere, and also build clepsydra graduations and a gnomon table; Hanlin Academician Qian Mingyi was directed to work out the methods, and Inner Attendant Mai Yunyan to supervise construction.

Book of Sui, Chapter 86Volume 86: the Second Year of the Tian Sheng Reign Publication Mark · 2 passages

十五年，又詔左僕射于志寧、太史令李淳風、著作郎韋安仁、符璽郎李延壽同修五代史志。 In the fifteenth year, another edict commissioned Left Vice Director Yu Zhining, Grand Astrologer Li Chunfeng, Academician Wei Anren, and Seal Keeper Li Yanshou jointly to compile the treatises for the Five Dynasties history.

天文、律曆、五行三志，皆淳風獨作。 The treatises on astronomy, calendrical systems, and the Five Phases were all written by Li Chunfeng alone.