[1]Identity and datesLi Shi is identified as a Southern Song person whose life combined scholarship and official service; 1108–1181 is the principal date range used here.
CBDBLi Shi (10830)The basic record supplies Li Shi’s name, birth year, and Song-dynasty classification.
Souyun李石 (27802)The profile places him in the Southern Song, while the biographical text describes his learning, writing, and offices.
WikidataLi Shi (Q11097533)The label and time values support the identity and the 1108–1181 date range.
[2]Disputed datesThe biographical texts disagree: one gives 1108 with no death year, another gives 1181 with no birth year, and a third gives both years; a separate time value gives 1181 for the death year.
CBDBLi Shi (10830)The basic record gives 1108 as the birth year.
Souyun李石 (27802)The three biographical texts preserve the forms 1108–?, ?–1181, and 1108–1181.
WikidataLi Shi (Q11097533)The time values preserve two levels of precision for the 1108 birth and a 1181 death year.
[3]Names and native placeHis courtesy name was Zhiji and his studio name Fangzhou, with Fangzhouzi as another form; his native place is given as Zizhou Ziyang or Zizhou Panshi, in present-day Zizhong.
CBDBLi Shi (10830)The basic record identifies Zhiji as the courtesy name, Fangzhou as the studio name, and Panshi as the native-place entry.
Souyun李石 (27802)The profile and biographies preserve the Zizhou Ziyang and Zizhou Panshi forms and the names Zhiji, Fangzhou, and Fangzhouzi.
WikidataLi Shi (Q11097533)The name data preserves Fangzhou and Zhiji as aliases and as the corresponding name fields.
[4]Early examinationsHe was presented as a boys’ candidate at nine and passed the jinshi examination in Shaoxing 21, 1151; one account specifies the second class, while the examination entry gives only jinshi.
Souyun李石 (27802)The biographies record the boys’ examination, the Shaoxing 21 jinshi success, and the second-class description.
CBDBLi Shi (10830)The examination entry classifies him generally as a jinshi.
[5]Early officesAfter the examination he served in Chengdu’s Household Service, entered the capital as a National University registrar, became an Erudite, and was later sent out as Chengdu’s educational official.
Souyun李石 (27802)The titles and biographies jointly provide the Chengdu Household post, National University registrar and Erudite posts, and the Shaoxing 29 Chengdu educational appointment.
CBDBLi Shi (10830)The office record also lists the National University Erudite post.
[6]Chengdu studentsHis Chengdu teaching attracted more than a thousand pupils, students from Shu, and visitors from Fujian and Yue; the biographies also state that he later became Chengdu’s vice-prefect.
Souyun李石 (27802)The biographies describe the large Chengdu student body, the regional reach of his teaching, the carved names, and his later Chengdu vice-prefecture; the profile also lists students.
[7]Conduct and careerThe biographies connect the examination-office episode and his direct, uncompromising conduct with the difficulty of his official career.
Souyun李石 (27802)The biographies describe his dismissal from the examination office, direct conduct, refusal to curry favor, incisive discussion, and difficult career.
[8]Later officesHe held the Pengzhou vice-prefecture and the prefectures of Lizhou, Hezhou, and Meizhou, and during Qiandao served as a Duguan assistant director before dismissal and renewed prefectural service.
Souyun李石 (27802)The office profile and biographies list the Pengzhou, Lizhou, Hezhou, and Meizhou posts and the Qiandao Duguan appointment followed by dismissal.
[9]Transport intendancy and county officeIn Chunxi 2, 1175, he became Chengdu Circuit Transport Intendant and was soon dismissed; an additional office entry gives service as magistrate of a county.
Souyun李石 (27802)The profile and biography record the Chengdu Circuit Transport Intendancy in Chunxi 2, 1175, and its prompt dismissal.
CBDBLi Shi (10830)The office entry additionally gives service as magistrate of a county.
[10]DeathThe biographies place his death in Chunxi 8 and one gives an age above seventy; the death time value is 1181.
Souyun李石 (27802)The biographies give Chunxi 8 as the death year and state that he died at more than seventy.
[11]Scholarship and styleHe was learned and accomplished in prose, drew on the Meishan Su tradition, specialized in the Changes and Spring and Autumn, and wrote landscape pieces in an elevated style.
Souyun李石 (27802)The biographies describe his learning, prose, Meishan literary affiliation, expertise in the classics, and landscape writing.
[12]Early study and teachingAt nine he studied at Zhang Zijue’s school with Zhi Shiqi and Wu Dejun; his later Chengdu teaching attracted many pupils.
CBDBLi Shi (10830)The association note names Zhi Shiqi, Wu Dejun, Zhang Zijue’s school, and Li Shi’s age of nine.
Souyun李石 (27802)The biographies connect his Chengdu educational service with the large number of students who followed him.
[13]Students and teaching relationshipsThe association records identify several pupils and preserve their specific relationships with Li Shi, including examination selection, instruction in the classics, and the compilation of essays for him.
CBDBLi Shi (10830)The association entries name 馮誠之, 樂材, 王龔, 劉伯熊, and 塗森 and describe their study, examination, and editorial relationships with Li Shi.
[14]Friends and literary associates塗勉仲 is described as Li Shi’s closest friend and as having sent two sons to study with him; 趙樗年 is described as his literary friend and as possessing a thousand juan of books.
CBDBLi Shi (10830)The association notes describe the close friendship with 塗勉仲, his sending of two sons to study, and the literary friendship and book collection of 趙樗年.
[15]Prose genresHis recorded literary activity spans epitaphs, sacrificial texts, studio and hall inscriptions, Buddhist temple records, colophons, biographies, and writing for buildings; the 起覺禪寺 record is linked to 《方舟集》.
CBDBLi Shi (10830)The association and text entries cover epitaphs, sacrificial texts, inscriptions, temple records, colophons, biographies, building writings, and the 起覺禪寺 record in 《方舟集》.
[16]WorksThe catalogue and biographies list 《方舟易學》 or 《方舟易說》, 《方舟經說》, 《續博物志》, 《開城錄》, 《世系手記》 or 《世系手紀》, and the Li family genealogy, with the stated juan counts.
CBDBLi Shi (10830)The text catalogue supplies the listed titles and the six-, ten-, one-, and one-juan designations.
Souyun李石 (27802)The biographies preserve the Yixue/Yishuo variants and the works 《續博物志》, 《方舟集》, and 《世系手紀》.
[17]Fangzhou ji《方舟集》 originally comprised fifty juan with a twenty-juan sequel and was later lost; Qing Siku editors reconstructed twenty-four juan from the 《永樂大典》.
Souyun李石 (27802)The biography gives the original fifty-juan collection, its twenty-juan sequel, the loss of the work, and the twenty-four-juan reconstruction from the 《永樂大典》.
CBDBLi Shi (10830)The text catalogue preserves the title 《方舟集》.
[18]Poem textThe available poems use the facsimile Wen-yuan Pavilion 《四庫全書·方舟集》 as their base text, with newly collected poems outside the collection appended at the end.
Souyun李石 (27802)The biography specifies the facsimile base text and the placement of newly collected poems outside the collection.
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