Five Dynasties · Temple-named founding ancestor of Later Tang

Li Guochang 李國昌

Attested AD 860 - AD 930

Passages: 4
Chapters: 3
Histories: 2

Overview

Li Guochang was a Temple-named founding ancestor of Later Tang.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Temple name	Later Tang's founding ancestor	獻祖

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 930 後唐長興元年九月
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 143, passage 7
AD 923 後唐
Dated from the passage context · New History of the Five Dynasties 69, passage 2
AD 860 to AD 874 獻祖討龐勳
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 50, passage 17

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Li Keyong (李克用)
father 父
Sources vary in certainty · Old History of the Five Dynasties 50, passages 1, 119
Parent of Li Kejian (李克儉)
father 父
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 50, passage 119
Parent of Li Kegong (李克恭)
father 父
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 50, passage 119
Parent of Li Kerou (李克柔)
father 父
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 50, passage 119
Sibling of Decheng (德成)
paternal uncle of Keyong's father-line 從父 · paternal line
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 50, passages 16-17

Kinship Role sons · Count 4 · per Xin Tangshu chancellor lineage table: Ke Gong, Ke Jian, Ke Yong, Ke Rou
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 50, passage 119

Key source chapters

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 50Volume 50 Book of Later Tang 26: Biographies 2: Imperial Family · 2 passages

父德成，初為天寧軍使，從獻祖討龐勳，以功授朔州刺史。 His father Decheng had first served as military commissioner of Tianning. He followed the Offering Ancestor against Pang Xun and, for his service, was made prefect of Shuozhou.

〈（案《新唐書·宰相世係表》：嗣昭，國昌有子四人：克恭、克儉、克用、克柔。 (According to the 《New Book of Tang·Tables of Chancellor Lineages》: Sizhao—Guochang had four sons: Ke Gong, Ke Jian, Ke Yong, and Ke Rou.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 143Volume 143: Treatises 5 Rites 2 · 1 passage

聖朝中興，重修宗廟，今太廟見饗高祖、太宗、懿宗、昭宗、獻祖、太祖、莊宗七廟，太祖景皇帝在祧廟之數，不列廟饗。 After the dynasty's revival the ancestral shrines were rebuilt; the Imperial Temple now served seven halls—the High Ancestor, Great Ancestor, Yizong, Zhaozong, Xianzu, Taizu, and Zhuangzong—while Grand Ancestor Emperor Jing was relegated to the distant-lineage shrine and no longer received regular temple offerings.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 69Volume 69: Hereditary House of Nanping · 1 passage

本名季昌，避後唐獻祖廟諱，更名季興。 He had originally been named Jichang, but to avoid the taboo on the temple name of Later Tang's founding ancestor, he took the name Jixing.