Li Jue (Tang dynasty)

Li Jue (李珏 or 李玨) (c. 784?-852?^[1]), courtesy name Daijia (待價), formally Duke Zhenmu of Zanhuang (贊皇貞穆公), was a Chinese military general and politician during the Tang dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reigns of Emperor Wenzong and (briefly) Emperor Wenzong's brother Emperor Wuzong. He was considered one of the leaders of the Niu Faction in the Niu-Li Factional Struggles.

^ There are issues in Li Jue's death date, and therefore birth date. According to the chronicles of the reign of Emperor Xuānzong, in the Old Book of Tang, which is the only official historical source that gave a particular date for his death, Li Jue died on the Bingchen day of the seventh month of the sixth year (852) of Emperor Xuānzong's Dazhong era — see Old Book of Tang, vol. 18, part 2 — but no such day existed. See Academia Sinica Chinese-Western Calendar Converter. Archived 2010-05-22 at the Wayback Machine Li Jue's biography in the Old Book of Tang indicated that he died in the seventh year of Dazhong era (853), but did not give a month or a day. See Old Book of Tang, vol. 173. Li Jue's biography in the New Book of Tang did not give a death date at all, but gave his death age as 68. See New Book of Tang, vol. 182. As only the chronicles of Emperor Xuānzong's reign in the Old Book of Tang even attempted to date Li Jue's death to the month, that date will be used here (with an assumption that only the Bingchen day was incorrect).

[birthdeath-1] There are issues in Li Jue's death date, and therefore birth date. According to the chronicles of the reign of Emperor Xuānzong, in the Old Book of Tang, which is the only official historical source that gave a particular date for his death, Li Jue died on the Bingchen day of the seventh month of the sixth year (852) of Emperor Xuānzong's Dazhong era — see Old Book of Tang, vol. 18, part 2 — but no such day existed. See Academia Sinica Chinese-Western Calendar Converter. Archived 2010-05-22 at the Wayback Machine Li Jue's biography in the Old Book of Tang indicated that he died in the seventh year of Dazhong era (853), but did not give a month or a day. See Old Book of Tang, vol. 173. Li Jue's biography in the New Book of Tang did not give a death date at all, but gave his death age as 68. See New Book of Tang, vol. 182. As only the chronicles of Emperor Xuānzong's reign in the Old Book of Tang even attempted to date Li Jue's death to the month, that date will be used here (with an assumption that only the Bingchen day was incorrect).

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