Li Ting (李珽) | 24 Histories

Overview

Li Ting was an official and Writer.

IdentityHistorical · Male

Roles

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Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Gongdu	公度	Gongdu

Life and dates

Death

AD 912 內討之日
At Luoyang 洛陽 · Wounded by disorderly soldiers
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 42

Age

24
AD 873 to AD 888 年二十四登進士第 · Reckoning Sui
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 6

Attested activity

AD 873 to AD 888 僖宗朝
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 5
AD 907 受禪之歲
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 23
AD 901 to AD 904 天復中
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passages 12-13
AD 912 庶人友珪篡位
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passages 41-42
AD 907 to AD 912 為梁祖所知
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passage 140

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Descendant of Li Cheng (李憕)
fifth-generation ancestor 五世祖 · paternal line · 5 generations
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 2
Sibling of Li Qi (李琪)
younger brother 弟 · Full siblings
elder brother 兄 · Full siblings
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passages 7, 43; Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passage 140
Child of Li Gu (李縠)
father 父
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passage 140
Child of Li Gu (李縠)
father 父
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 3
Child of Mother of Li Qi
mother 母
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passages 130, 140
Child of Mother of Li Ting (李珽母)
mother 母
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 6

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Career and standing

Right Regular Cavalry Attendant and lecturer attendant 右散騎常侍，充侍講學士
AD 912 友珪篡位 · Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 41
supervisor of Cao prefecture 監曹州事
AD 907 受禪之歲 · Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passages 23-25
investigating censor 監察御史
AD 873 to AD 888 拜監察御史 · Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 6
Chongzheng academician 崇政學士
AD 907 to AD 912 為梁祖所知 · Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passage 140
collating clerk 校書郎
AD 873 to AD 888 解褐授校書郎 · Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 6
academician of the Court for Upholding Governance 崇政院學士
Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 26

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acting governor of Kuangguo 匡國軍留後
Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 34
acting governor of Xu 許州留後
Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 27
Bureau Director in the Ministry of War 兵部郎中
Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 26
chief recorder 掌記
Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 18
chief secretary 掌書記
Appointed · At Jingzhou 荊州
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 11
Left Remonstrance Grand Master and Vice Commissioner of the Palace Secretariat 左諫議大夫兼宣徽副使
Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 34
Left Supplementation Censor 左補闕
Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 18
secretary of the Tianping army 天平軍掌書記
Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 19
Acting Director of Examination and edict drafter 考功員外郎、知制誥
AD 907 受禪之歲 · Offered
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 23
mourning for his mother 丁內艱
Mourning · Entered
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 6

Places and affiliations

Later Liang 梁
Relation Served
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 23
At Dunhuang in Longxi 隴西敦煌
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 1

Learning and skills

Earned
AD 873 to AD 888 年二十四登進士第 · Credential Presented Scholar 進士
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 6
Earned
Credential Presented Scholar 進士
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passage 140
Skill rhapsodies and fu 詞賦 · Level especially gifted
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 4

Works and attributed material

AD 901 to AD 904 天復中
Speech · Speaker · With Cheng Rui (成汭)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passages 13-15
Speech · Speaker · With Zhu Quanzhong (硃全忠)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passages 36, 38-39

Events and relationships

Advised fleet deployment
AD 901 to AD 904 天復中 · Military advice · Advisor · With Cheng Rui (成汭) · At Baling/Ezhou 巴陵、鄂州
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passages 12-17
Drafted proclamation
Literary · Author · With Zhu Quanzhong (硃全忠)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passages 21-22
Received seals and ran headquarters
Administrative · Envoy · With Feng Xingxi (馮行襲)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passages 28-33
Thrice declined appointment
AD 907 受禪之歲 · Political · Subject
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 23
Relation Protege of · Person Zhu Wen (梁祖)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passage 140

Assessments and attributes

Assessment filial and brotherly · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 43
Assessment rich literary talent; equally famed with his brother; especially noticed by the Founder of Liang · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passage 140
Assessment true secretary · Mode named-person-speech Speaker Zhu Quanzhong (硃全忠)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 24, passage 20

References in the histories

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History

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 24Volume 24 Book of Later Liang 24: Biographies 14: Li Ting, Lu Ceng, Sun Zhi, Zhang Jun, Zhang Yan, Du Xunhe, Luo Yin, Chou Yin, Duan Shen · 24 passages

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李珽，字公度，隴西敦煌人。 Li Ting, styled Gongdu, came from Dunhuang in Longxi.

珽聰悟，有才學，尤工詞賦。 Ting was quick-minded, widely read, and especially gifted at rhapsodies and fu.

僖宗朝，晉公王鐸提兵柄，鎮滑台，縠居賓席，鐸見珽，大賞歎之。 During Xizong's reign Duke of Jin Wang Duo held the armies at Huatai; Gu was among his retainers; when Duo met Ting he admired him greatly.

先是，父旅殯在遠，家貧無以襄事，與弟琪當臘雪以單縗扶杖，銜哀告人，由是兩克遷祔。 His father's coffin had long lain far from home and the family was too poor to bury him properly; Ting and his brother Qi, in deep winter snow, wore plain hemp mourning and leaned on staffs as they went begging in grief until they could bring both parents home for joint burial.

而珽日不過食一溢，恒羸臥喪廬中不能興。 Ting ate barely a dipper of food a day, grew gaunt, and for long stretches could not leave the mourning hut.

成汭之鎮荊州，辟為掌書記，逾時乃就。 When Cheng Rui took Jingzhou he made Ting his chief secretary; Ting delayed some time before accepting.

珽入言曰：「今舳艫容介士千人，載稻倍之，緩急不可動。 Ting advised him: "Each ship now carries a thousand fighting men and twice as much grain—it cannot maneuver when speed matters.

淮人果乘風縱火，舟盡焚，兵盡溺，汭亦自沈於江，朗人、潭人遂入荊渚，一如所料。 The Huai did ride the wind to burn the fleet; every ship was lost and every man drowned; Cheng drowned himself in the river; Lang and Tan troops then overran Jing—exactly as Ting had foretold.

又明年，太祖為元帥，以襄陽貳於己，率兵擊破之，趙匡凝奔揚州，太祖復署珽為天平軍掌書記。 The next year, as commander-in-chief, the Founder attacked disloyal Xiangyang, broke it, and drove Zhao Kuangning to Yangzhou; he again made Ting secretary of the Tianping army.

一日，大會將佐，指珽曰：「此真書記也。」 One day at a council of officers he pointed to Ting and said, "There is a real secretary."

滄州節度使劉守文拒命，太祖引兵十餘萬圍之，久而未下，乃召珽草檄。 When Cangzhou commissioner Liu Shouwen rebelled the Founder besieged him with more than a hundred thousand men; the city held for long months, and he called on Ting to draft the assault proclamation.

珽即就外次，筆不停綴，登時而成，大為太祖嗟賞。 Ting stepped to a side room and wrote without pause; the draft was done at once and the Founder marveled.

受禪之歲，宰臣除為考功員外郎、知制誥，珽揣太祖未欲首以舊僚超拜清顯，三上章固辭，優詔褒允，尋以本官監曹州事。 In the year of the Founder's enthronement the chief ministers made him Acting Director of Examination and edict drafter; Ting sensed the Founder was loath to promote an old follower straight to a lofty post, declined three times in memorials, received a gracious edict of praise, and soon supervised Cao with his existing rank.

珽在任期歲，眾庶以寧。 In one year under Ting the people were calm.

先是，行襲有牙兵二千，皆蔡人也，太祖深以為憂，乃遣珽馳往，以伺察之。 Xingxi still had two thousand guard troops, all Cai men; the Founder was deeply uneasy and sent Ting post-haste to watch the situation.

珽至傳舍，召將吏親加撫慰。 At the relay station Ting summoned the officers and comforted them in person.

行襲欲使人代受詔，珽曰：「東首加朝服，禮也。」 Xingxi wanted a proxy to receive the edict; Ting said, "To face east in court dress is the proper rite."

行襲泣謝，遂解二印以授珽，代掌軍府事。 Xingxi wept his thanks and handed Ting both seals to run the headquarters in his stead.

太祖覽奏曰：「予固知珽必辦吾事，行襲門戶不朽矣。」 Reading the report, the Founder said, "I knew Ting would handle this for me—Xingxi's line will endure."

乃以珽為匡國軍留後，尋征為左諫議大夫兼宣徽副使。 He made Ting acting governor of Kuangguo, then recalled him as Left Remonstrance Grand Master and Vice Commissioner of the Palace Secretariat.

珽曰：「河南有外黃、小黃，故此有內黃。」 Ting said, "South of the River are Waihuang and Xiaohuang, so this is Neihuang."

及庶人友珪篡位，除右散騎常侍，充侍講學士。 When the commoner Yougui seized the throne, Ting was made Right Regular Cavalry Attendant and lecturer attendant.

內討之日，軍士大擾，珽其夕為亂兵所傷，卒於洛陽。 On the day of the inner punitive campaign the army rioted; that night disorderly soldiers wounded Ting, and he died in Luoyang.

珽性孝友，與弟琪有敦睦之愛，為搢紳所稱。 Ting was filial and brotherly; he and his brother Qi were deeply devoted, and the gentry praised them.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 58Volume 58 Book of Later Tang 34: Biographies 10: Zhao Guangfeng, Zheng Jue, Cui Xie, Li Qi, Xiao Qing · 1 passage

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琪兄珽，亦登進士第，才藻富贍，兄弟齊名，而尤為梁祖所知，以珽為崇政學士。 Qi's elder brother Ting also passed the jinshi examination. Both brothers were equally famed for their literary gifts, but Ting was especially noticed by the Founder of Liang, who made him a Chongzheng academician.