Five Dynasties · Royal Family Member and Military Officer

Li Congcan 李從璨

Died AD 926 to AD 930

Passages: 10
Chapters: 3
Histories: 2

Overview

Li Congcan was a Royal Family Member and Military Officer.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal name	Congcan	从璨

Life and dates

Death

Cause Ordered suicide
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 40, passage 26
AD 926 to AD 930 天成中
ordered to die 盡命
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 51, passage 160

Attested activity

AD 926 天成
Dated from the passage context · New History of the Five Dynasties 12, passage 170
AD 926 to AD 930 天成中
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 51, passage 154
AD 929 天成四年三月
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 40, passages 26-29

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Li Siyuan (李嗣源)
son 諸子
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 40, passage 27; Old History of the Five Dynasties 51, passage 152

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Imperial City commissioner 大內皇城使
Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 51, passage 155
Fang prefecture registrar 房州司戶參軍
Demoted
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 40, passage 26
Grand General of the Right Guard 右衛大將軍
AD 926 to AD 930 天成中 · Held
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 51, passage 154
Imperial City commissioner 皇城使
Held
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 40, passage 26
posthumous Grand Preceptor 贈太保
AD 930 to AD 933 長興中 · Received
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 51, passage 162
Army Aide of Fangzhou; life forfeit 房州司戶參軍，仍令盡命
Demotion and death · Suffered
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 51, passage 160

Events and relationships

Climbed imperial couch
Other · Offender
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 40, passage 28

Assessments and attributes

Assessment destroyed by powerful minister; unnatural death · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 51, passage 198

References in the histories

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History

10 passages

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 40Volume 40 Book of Later Tang 16: Mingzong Annals 6 · 3 passages

丙戌，詔皇城使李從璨貶授房州司戶參軍，仍令盡命。 On bingxu Li Congcan was demoted to Fang registrar and ordered to take his own life.

從璨，帝之諸子也。 Congcan was Mingzong's son.

先是，帝巡幸汴州，留從璨以警大內，從璨因遊會節園，酒酣，戲登禦榻。 While Mingzong was at Bian he had left Congcan guarding the palace; drunk in the Festival Garden Congcan climbed the imperial couch in play.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 51Volume 51 Book of Later Tang 27: Biographies 3: Imperial Family · 6 passages

從璨，明宗諸子。 Congcan was one of Mingzong's sons.

天成中，為右衛大將軍，時安重誨方秉事權，從璨亦不之屈，重誨嘗以此忌之。 During Tiancheng he was Grand General of the Right Guard. An Chonghui then held power, and Congcan would not bow to him; Chonghui resented him for it.

明宗幸汴，留從璨為大內皇城使。 When Mingzong visited Bian, he left Congcan as commissioner of the inner imperial city.

詔曰：「皇城使從璨，朕巡幸汴州，使警大內。 An edict declared, "Imperial City Commissioner Congcan: when We toured Bianzhou We charged him to guard the inner palace.

命復舊官，仍贈太保。 Congcan's former office was restored and he was posthumously enfeoffed as Grand Preceptor.

從璨為權臣所忌，從益為強敵所脅，俱不得其死，亦良可傷哉！ Congcan was destroyed by a powerful minister, Congyi was coerced by a strong enemy—neither died a natural death. How lamentable!

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 12Volume 12 Later Zhou Annals 3: Shizong, Emperor Gong · 1 passage

梁之友珪反，唐戕克宁而杀存乂、从璨，则父子骨肉之恩，几何其不绝矣。 When Liang’s Yougui rebelled, Later Tang slew Kening and put Cunyi and Congcan to death—the tie between father and son, bone and blood, was all but severed.