Li Bian
Southern Tang · Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms · 1st ruler
南唐烈祖 Nán Táng Lièzǔ李昪 Lǐ Biàn
Wade–Giles: Nan T'ang Lieh-tsu · Li Pien
Reigned 937–943 (5 years)
Reigned 5 years (937–943). Died at 56 (East Asian reckoning) of natural causes. 1st ruler of Southern Tang.
Facts
- Reign
- 10 November 937 – 30 March 943 (1st ruler of Southern Tang)
- Length of reign
- 5 years
- Born
- 7 January 889
- Died
- 30 March 943
- Age at accession
- Unknown
- Age at death
- 56
- Cause of death
- Natural causesNatural death or illness (including old age)
- Path to the throne
- Abdication from another dynastyReceived the throne from an emperor of another family or regime in a change of dynasty led by the new emperor (e.g. Cao Pi, Yang Jian, Zhao Kuangyin)
- Predecessor
- Yang Pu
- Successor
- Li Jing
- Era names
- 升元 Shēngyuán (proclaimed 937)
Ages are given in East Asian reckoning (sui): a person is one year old at birth and gains a year at each New Year, so the figure is one or two years higher than the Western age.
During the reign
Number of times each event is recorded in the official histories. How each item is counted
- Era name changes
- 1
- General amnesties
- 2
- Empresses installed
- 1
- Crown princes deposed
- 1
- Personal campaigns
- 0
- Rebellions suppressed
- 0
- Rebellions faced
- 0
- Capital relocations
- 0