Li Yi

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1. 780 節度使從事 建中
2. 788 節度幕府從事 貞元
3. 797 節度使從事 貞元
4. 808 考制策官 元和
5. 809 中書舍人 元和
6. 810 少尹 元和
7. 812 秘書省少監 元和
8. 812 集賢學士 元和
9. 820 右散騎常侍 元和
10. 827 禮部尚書

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• 君虞 字
• 李十 行第

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• 詩人
• 文人
• [為官者：文]

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1. [1] Dates and identity Li Yi's birth year is consistently given as 748, while his death year appears as both 827 and 829; he is identified as a Tang poet and man of letters.
   • CBDBLi Yi (33487)The main record gives the name Li Yi, birth year 748, death year 827, and Tang affiliation; the status entries identify him as a poet and man of letters.
   • Souyun李益 (15274)The profile and biographical entries identify Li Yi, give 748–829 as his dates, and place him in the Tang poetic and literary context.
   • WikidataLi Yi (Q3237588)The person item identifies Li Yi as an eighth- to ninth-century poet and supplies 748 as the birth year and both 829 and 827 as death-year values.
2. [2] Courtesy name and origins Li Yi's courtesy name was Junyu and he was tenth in birth order; the records preserve differing statements about his native and ancestral places.
   • CBDBLi Yi (33487)The structured entries give Junyu as the courtesy name, Li Shi as the tenth-in-order name, Guancheng as the basic native place, and Guzang as the ancestral place.
   • Souyun李益 (15274)The profile gives Junyu, the tenth-in-order name, and Liangzhou Guzang in present-day Gansu; the biographical entries also use Longxi Guzang.
   • WikidataLi Yi (Q3237588)The person item records Junyu as an alternate name.
3. [3] Family Li Yi was a kinsman of Li Kui, while the names of his father and father-in-law are preserved in variant forms.
   • CBDBLi Yi (33487)The kinship entries list Li Qiu in the forms 李虯 and 李虬, Li Cun, and the two father-in-law names Lu Shu and Lu Ji.
   • Souyun李益 (15274)The biographical entry calls Li Yi a kinsman of the chancellor Li Kui.
4. [4] Migration to Luoyang Li Yi's family left the Liangzhou region when it fell to the Tubo in 764 and settled in Luoyang.
   • Souyun李益 (15274)The biographical entry places the fall of Liangzhou to the Tubo before or around 764 and says that the family left its old home and settled in Luoyang.
5. [5] Early examinations Li Yi passed the jinshi examination in 769, became a Zheng County magistrate, and two years later passed the Fengjian Zhuwen examination and became a county registrar.
   • Souyun李益 (15274)The biographies give the 769 jinshi success, the appointment at Zheng County, and the subsequent Fengjian Zhuwen examination and promotion to county registrar.
   • CBDBLi Yi (33487)The examination entries list the jinshi and Fengjian Zhuwen examinations, while the office entries list county magistrate and county registrar.
6. [6] Baxiu examination In the fourth year of Jianzhong, Li Yi passed the Shupan Baxiu examination and became an Investigating Censor.
   • Souyun李益 (15274)The biographical entry records the fourth year of Jianzhong, the Shupan Baxiu examination, and appointment as Investigating Censor.
   • CBDBLi Yi (33487)The examination entry names the Shupan Baxiu examination, and the office entry names Investigating Censor.
7. [7] Military career Li Yi served in the Weibei, Shuofang, Tiande, Binning, and Youzhou staffs, with the accounts differing in the presentation of his later recruitment by Liu Ji.
   • Souyun李益 (15274)The biographical entries trace his service in the Weibei, Shuofang, Tiande, Binning, and Youzhou staffs, and preserve the account of Liu Ji recruiting him after his travels in Yan and Zhao.
   • CBDBLi Yi (33487)The office data records staff service in the Shuofang region, Binning, and Youzhou, with the corresponding office types and date ranges.
8. [8] Military self-description The sources give both a twenty-six-year summary of Li Yi's military life and a preface describing eighteen years of service, five among the army.
   • Souyun李益 (15274)One biographical account summarizes the military phase as twenty-six years; the quoted preface says eighteen years of service, five among the army, and describes writing during military life in an impassioned spirit.
9. [9] Court offices During Yuanhe Li Yi held a sequence of central and heir-apparent offices and reached You Sanqi Changshi.
   • Souyun李益 (15274)The biographical and prose entries list his Yuanhe court offices, including Secretariat Drafter, Henan Assistant Administrator, Palace Library and Jixian appointments, the heir-apparent offices, and You Sanqi Changshi.
   • CBDBLi Yi (33487)The office entries list the corresponding Chinese titles for Director of the Bureau of Criminal Reviews, Secretariat Drafter, Henan Assistant Administrator, Palace Library, Jixian Hall, heir-apparent, Palace Guest, and You Sanqi Changshi.
10. [10] Dated appointments The dated entries place five appointments between Yuanhe 3 and Yuanhe 15.
    • CBDBLi Yi (33487)The dated office entries give Yuanhe 3 for examiner of policy essays, Yuanhe 4 for Secretariat Drafter, Yuanhe 5 for Henan Assistant Administrator, Yuanhe 7 for the Palace Library and Jixian appointments, and Yuanhe 15 for You Sanqi Changshi.
    • Souyun李益 (15274)The biographies corroborate the Yuanhe sequence of court appointments and his promotion to You Sanqi Changshi.
11. [11] Retirement and death Li Yi retired in 827 with the honorary title of Minister of Rites; his death year is disputed, and his burial and death places are separately identified.
    • Souyun李益 (15274)The biographies and prose entry record retirement with the Minister of Rites title in 827, while the profile gives 829 as the death year.
    • CBDBLi Yi (33487)The office entry ends the Minister of Rites appointment in 827, and the location entries identify Yanshi as the burial place, Henan as the death place, and 827 as a death year.
    • WikidataLi Yi (Q3237588)The person item contains both 829 and 827 as death-year values.
12. [12] Sons The kinship entries name six sons of Li Yi.
    • CBDBLi Yi (33487)The kinship entries classify Li Dang, Li Chang, Li Chong, Li Yi, Li Yuan Yi, and Li Tang as sons.
13. [13] Poetic reputation Li Yi became famous early, was compared with Li He, and his poems circulated as paintings and songs; one account includes him among the Ten Great Poets of Dali.
    • Souyun李益 (15274)The biographical and critical entries describe his early poetic fame, parity with Li He, musicians seeking his poems, their circulation in images and songs, and the view that he belonged to the Ten Great Poets of Dali.
14. [14] Youthful poetry The first phase begins before Li Yi entered the military staffs and is characterized by the style of the Ten Talents and regulated pentasyllabic verse.
    • Souyun李益 (15274)The poetry account divides his career into phases and describes the pre-military phase, its relation to the Ten Talents, its strength in regulated verse, and its representative poems.
15. [15] Military poetry The military phase is described as the peak of Li Yi's frontier poetry and includes representative seven-character quatrains and regulated verse.
    • Souyun李益 (15274)The critical entries describe the twenty-six-year military phase, its frontier subject matter and peak status, and the style and examples of his quatrains and regulated poems.
16. [16] Late poetry The late phase after court service is associated with scenic, Daoist, and leisurely poems and is judged less accomplished than the military phase.
    • Souyun李益 (15274)The poetry account describes the post-court late phase as concerned with scenes, immortality, Daoism, and leisure, and judges its achievement lower.
17. [17] Reception of the quatrains Li Yi's seven-character quatrains are praised for compression and resonance, and Hu Yinglin ranks him first after the Kaiyuan era.
    • Souyun李益 (15274)The critical entries praise the condensed, suggestive, resonant quality of his quatrains and preserve Hu Yinglin's ranking of Li Yi after Kaiyuan.
18. [18] Associations The association entries record exchanges of poems and prose with the named writers, while the poetry discussion supplies related poem titles.
    • CBDBLi Yi (33487)The association entries label the relationships with Wu Yuanheng, Qi Ying, Cui Bin, Linghu Chu, Lu Lun, Sikong Shu, Miao Fa, and Jia Dao as exchanges of poems and prose.
    • Souyun李益 (15274)The poetry entry names poems addressed to Miao Fa and Sikong Shu and a poem written with Cui Bin as subject.
19. [19] Works The Li Yi ji, also called the Li Junyu ji, circulated in two scrolls; two scrolls are preserved in the Quan Tang shi and one poem is added in the continuation.
    • Souyun李益 (15274)The bibliographical passages name the two-scroll Li Yi ji and its alternate title Li Junyu ji, give the two-scroll Quan Tang shi entry, and add one poem in the continuation.
    • CBDBLi Yi (33487)The works entry also lists the collection under the title 李益集.