Li Shiqian 李士謙

Other names

Family

• Sibling of Elder Sister of Li Shiqian
  elder sister 姊
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 26
• Child of Father of Li Shiqian
  father 父
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 21
• Child of Mother of Li Shiqian
  mother 母
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 21
• Kin of Yang (瑒)
  paternal uncle 伯父 · paternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 23
• Spouse of Lady Lu (盧氏)
  wife 妻
  Directly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 88, passage 106
• Spouse of Lady Lu (盧氏)
  wife 妻 · Widowed
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 89

• Kinship Role sons · Quantity plural · referred to as 吾子 in plural
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 63

Career and standing

• Record Keeper of the Prince's Household Staff 開府參軍事
  AD 534 to AD 550 年十二 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 24
• Director of the Imperial Academy 國子祭酒
  Refused
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passages 30-31
• Supernumerary Gentleman 員外郎
  Refused
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 29
• recluse 隱
  Recluse · Held
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 252
• Maintained
  AD 581 隋有天下 · Never took office · Negated false
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 32

Places and affiliations

• At Pingji, Zhao Commandery 趙郡平棘
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 20
• At Zhao Commandery 趙郡
  Directly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 88, passage 104

Learning and skills

• broad classical learning; astronomy and numerology 博覽群籍，兼善天文術數
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 28
• Belief Buddhism 佛家 · Relation Adherent of
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passages 27, 64, 72
• Skill astronomy and numerology 天文術數 · Level excelled
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 28

Works and attributed material

• lyric poems of reflection 詠懷詩
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 75
• Speech · Speaker · With Dong Zhen (董震)
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passages 48-49
• Speech · Speaker
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passages 36, 38, 52-53, 61-63, 65-68, 70-73
• Treatise · Author · discussion of punishments; transmitted text incomplete
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passages 76-83

Events and relationships

• Buried unclaimed bones; distributed seed in spring
  Charity · Benefactor
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passages 57-58
• Converted house to Buddhist monastery
  Religious · Donor
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 27
• Exhausted resources making gruel in famine; nearly ten thousand saved
  Charity · Benefactor
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 56
• Lent grain and burned contracts; later refused repayment
  Charity · Benefactor
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passages 51-53, 55
• forgot official caps and robes and fulfilled resolve in field and garden 忘懷纓冕，畢志丘園
  Personal · Subject · Renounced office and fulfilled resolve in reclusion
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 252
• Relation Friend of · Person Cui Kuo (崔廓)
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 98

Assessments and attributes

• man who embraced simplicity 抱樸之士
  Assessment embraced simplicity · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 253
• Assessment grasped the substance of good government · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 84
• hearing praise, was not pleased 聞譽不喜
  Assessment heard praise and was not pleased · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 253
• natural pure virtue 自然之純德
  Assessment natural pure virtue enabling ideal reclusion · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 252
• never drank wine or ate meat after being orphaned young
  Dietary practice
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 33