Hiển Khánh Vương

Hiển Khánh Vương
Bornprior to 970
unknown
Diedafter 1000
Unknown (Early Lê dynasty?)
Spouse(s)Phạm Thị, Empress Dowager Minh Đức (明德太后范氏)
Children

Hiển Khánh Vương (‹The template Chuhan is being considered for deletion.›  chữ Hán: 顯慶王 "Duke of Hiển Khánh") was the father of Lý Thái Tổ. Very little is known about him, as not much was recorded about him historically; even his real name remains unknown and controversial.

Vietnamese sources

The paternal lineage of Lý Thái Tổ was not prominently recorded in Vietnamese official history. The Vietnamese annuals Việt sử lược and Đại Việt sử ký tiền biên only record Công Uẩn's mother as having the surname Phạm, and do not mention his father, suggesting that he was a fatherless child.[1][2] Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư and Khâm định Việt sử Thông giám cương mục record that when Công Uẩn's mother went sightseeing at Tiêu Sơn temple, she copulated with a demigod or a Taoist immortal, and later gave birth to Công Uẩn.[3][4] Researcher Trần Viết Điền argued that the conclusion that Lý Công Uẩn was the son of a demigod satisfied the expectation of people throughout the realm at the time to be ruled by the Son of Heaven; his view is supported by many people.[5]

At the age of 3, Phạm brought him back to the pagoda. Lý Khánh Văn (李慶文), head monk of the pagoda, adopted him and named him Lý Công Uẩn.[6][7]

After Lý Công Uẩn became emperor, he granted his father the title Hiển Khánh vương (顯慶王) posthumously.[8]

Chinese sources

According to Dream Pool Essays by Shen Kuo, Lý Thái Tổ was "a man of Fujian extraction".[9] Some modern researchers agree that Công Uẩn's father, Hiển Khánh Vương, was of Fujian extraction.[10]

Chinese-Vietnamese historian Li Taishan (李泰山) discovered a record in the genealogy of the Li clan of Anhai which showed that the father of Lý Công Uẩn was Li Chun'an (Chinese: 李淳安; pinyin: Lǐ Chún'ān, Vietnamese: Lý Thuần An, 9 October 921 – 29 November 999[citation needed]).[11][12] Historical sources disagree on whether Li Chun'an's wife Phạm Thị Ngà gave birth to Lý Công Uẩn in Fujian or Jiaozhi.[13][11]

Li Chun'an was said to be the first of two sons of Li Song. After Li Song was falsely accused and executed in 948 during the Later Han dynasty, Li Chun'an escaped to Quanzhou[14] which was then controlled by the warlord Liu Congxiao (but nominally under the control of the Southern Tang dynasty).

He resettled in the Li Family village in Anhai, Quanzhou and became a Water mid Land Transport Commissioner (水陸轉運使) at some point. Some time later, he deserted his official post to escape from an unspecified danger, and traveled by South China Sea to Jiaozhi (now Vietnam), Champa and Khmer Empire for business, spending the most time in Jiaozhi. He fathered several children, including Lý Công Uẩn who would later become the founding emperor of the Lý dynasty.[15][11]

Family

See also

References

  1. ^ Khuyết danh 1377, p. 36.
  2. ^ Ngô Thì Sĩ 1800, p. 188.
  3. ^ Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993, p. 80.
  4. ^ Quốc sử quán triều Nguyễn 1884, p. 105.
  5. ^ Online, Báo Giáo dục và Thời đại (2020-12-30). "Những bí ẩn về vua Lý Thái Tổ: Kỳ 1: Ai là cha của vua Lý Thái Tổ?". Báo Giáo dục và Thời đại Online (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2026-03-04.
  6. ^ Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, Bản kỷ Quyển 2
  7. ^ Việt Nam sử lược, Quyển 1 Phần 3 Chương 4: "Tục truyền rằng Công Uẩn không có cha, mẹ là Phạm-thị 范 氏 đi chơi chùa Tiêu-sơn 橅 山 (làng Tiêu-sơn, phủ Từ-sơn), nằm mộng thấy đi lại với thần nhân rồi về có thai đẻ ra đứa con trai. Lên ba tuổi đem cho người sư ở chùa Cổ-pháp tên là Lý khánh Văn 李 慶 文 làm con nuôi, mới đặt tên là Lý công Uẩn."
  8. ^ a b Khâm định Việt sử Thông giám cương mục, Chính biên Quyển 2
  9. ^ Dream Pool Essays, vol. 25: "桓死安南大亂久無酋長其後國人共立閩人李公蘊為主"
  10. ^ Lynn Pan (1998). The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas. Harvard University Press. p. 228. ISBN 0674252101.
  11. ^ a b c (in Chinese) 千年前泉州人李公蕴越南当皇帝 越南史上重要人物之一 Archived 2013-05-22 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ "越南归侨李泰山著书 忆述"从越南到泉州"". 今日泉州网. 2014-02-20.
  13. ^ Cuong Tu Nguyen (1997). Thiền Uyển Tập Anh. University of Hawaii Press. p. 371. ISBN 978-0-8248-1948-4.
  14. ^ (in Vietnamese) Origin of Lý Thái Tổ
  15. ^ (in Chinese) 两安海人曾是安南皇帝 有关专家考证李公蕴、陈日煚籍属晋江安海


Bibliography

Vietnamese sources

  • Ngô Sĩ Liên (1993). Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, Basic Annals (PDF) (in Vietnamese) (Nội các quan bản ed.). Hanoi: Social Science Publishing House. Retrieved 2025-06-20, Volume II, Kỷ nhà Lý: Thái Tổ Hoàng Đế{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  • Unknown historian (1377). Đại Việt sử lược (PDF) (in Vietnamese). Vol. II: King Thái Tổ.
  • Ngô Thì Sĩ (1800). Đại Việt sử ký tiền biên [Preliminary Chronicle of Dai Viet] (in Vietnamese). Vol. II, Kỷ nhà Lý - Thái tổ hoàng đế. Translated by Viện nghiên cứu Hán Nôm. Hanoi: Social science publisher (1997).
  • National Bureau of Historiography of the Nguyễn dynasty (1884). Khâm Định Việt Sử Thông Giám Cương Mục [The Imperially Ordered Annotated Text Completely Reflecting the History of Viet] (PDF) (in Vietnamese). Translated by Quốc sử quán triều Nguyễn. Education Publishing House. Retrieved 2025-12-24.

Chinese sources

allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Chun%27an