Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Protected Child

Li Xian 李憲

Lǐ Xiàn

Attested AD 450 - AD 500

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Li Xian was a Protected Child.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 450 to AD 500 為刺史被收
Dated from the passage context · Book of Wei 93, passage 35

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Ji Gu (汲固)
foster father 郎 · Foster parentage
Directly stated · Book of Wei 93, passage 41
Child of Wife of Li Shi (式婦)
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Wei 93, passage 39
Child of Li Shi (李式)
son 子
Directly stated · Book of Wei 93, passage 36

References in the histories

Book of Wei, Chapter 93Volume 87: Morality and Righteousness: Yu Shenmen, Duan Jin, Shi Wende, Ji Gu, Wang Xuanwei, Lou Ti, Liu Kehou · 5 passages

時式子憲生始滿月，式大言於眾曰：「程嬰、杵臼何如人也！」 Shi's son Xian had just been born and was barely a month old. Shi cried out before the crowd: "What manner of men were Cheng Ying and Gongsun Chujiu!"

遂便潛還，不復回顧，徑來入城，於式婦閨抱憲歸藏之。 He slipped away at once without a backward glance, went straight into the city, entered Shi's wife's inner quarters, took the infant Xian in his arms, and hid him away.

及捕者收憲屬，有一婢產男，母以婢兒授之。 When the search party came for Xian's kin, a maid had just given birth to a boy, and the mother handed over the maid's child in his stead.

事尋泄，固乃攜憲逃遁，遇赦始歸。 The ruse was soon discovered. Gu fled with Xian and did not return until a general amnesty was proclaimed.

憲即為固長育至十餘歲，恒呼固夫婦為郎婆。 Gu raised Xian to his teens, and the boy always addressed Gu and his wife as Father and Mother Gu.