Li Xian 李賢

Life and dates

Birth

• AD 655 永徽五年十二月戊午，在路生皇子賢
  Event Li Xian's explicitly recorded birth, supplementary to the local commentator identification. This is a source-qualified date witness; the conflicting biographical death ages are preserved in sourceConflict, not silently harmonized. · Mode supplementary-research Source Work 舊唐書卷四 Url https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/舊唐書/卷4 · Source Conflict Testimony: Source: Old Tang History, printed volume 86 (repository jiutangshu/090) · Quote: 年三十二 · Reported Age: 32, Source: New Tang History, volume 81 · Quote: 年三十四 · Reported Age: 34 · Interpretation: These biographies report different ages at death. Neither reconciles with ordinary inclusive counting of the Yonghui 5 annal birth and Wenming 1 death (31 named lunar years). The separately witnessed birth and death years are retained as source-qualified reports, not a harmonized lifespan. No canonical age or alternative exact birth is inferred.
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 1, passages 10-11

Death

• AD 684 文明元年，逼令自殺
  Event Li Xian's death in Wenming 1; only the year is asserted. Later honours are posthumous. This is a source-qualified date witness; the conflicting biographical death ages are preserved in sourceConflict, not silently harmonized. · Mode supplementary-research Source Work 舊唐書卷八十六 Url https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/舊唐書/卷86 · Source Conflict Testimony: Source: Old Tang History, printed volume 86 (repository jiutangshu/090) · Quote: 年三十二 · Reported Age: 32, Source: New Tang History, volume 81 · Quote: 年三十四 · Reported Age: 34 · Interpretation: These biographies report different ages at death. Neither reconciles with ordinary inclusive counting of the Yonghui 5 annal birth and Wenming 1 death (31 named lunar years). The separately witnessed birth and death years are retained as source-qualified reports, not a harmonized lifespan. No canonical age or alternative exact birth is inferred.
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 1, passage 11

Attested activity

• AD 677 唐
  Event Li Xian presented his annotated Hou Han shu to the court. A supplementary personally attested scholarly event, not activity throughout Tang or a date for all composition.
  Strongly inferred · Book of Later Han 1, passages 10-11
• AD 675 唐李賢時代
  Strongly inferred · History of Liao 116, passage 2