Lǐ Yánshòu 李延壽
Floruit Tang Zhēnguān–early Lóngshuò era (618–676). Native of Xiàngzhōu 相州 (modern Ānyáng 安陽, Hénán). Son of the historian Lǐ Dàshī 李大師 (570–628), who had begun a unified history of the Six Dynasties and the Northern dynasties as a private project and died with it unfinished.
Career: held Shūzhuànjiàn 述撰監 in the imperial historiographical office, Púshè cānjūn 僕射參軍, and various mid-rank posts under Tàizōng and Gāozōng. He was a senior member of nearly all the great Tang historiographical projects of the Zhēnguān era — contributing as a compiler to the Jìnshū (KR2a0015), the Suí shū (KR2a0023, both jìzhuàn and zhì), and serving on the Wǔdài shǐ commission.
His major personal contributions are the Nán shǐ 南史 in 80 juǎn (KR2a0024) and the Běi shǐ 北史 in 100 juǎn (KR2a0025), unified narrative histories of the Southern Dynasties (Sòng, Qí, Liáng, Chén) and the Northern Dynasties (Wèi, Qí, Zhōu, Suí) respectively. These were a continuation and completion of his father Lǐ Dàshī’s unfinished private project. Lǐ Yánshòu spent some sixteen years (660–676 according to some reckonings) compiling them; they were presented to Gāozōng in 659 (Nán shǐ first) and 659 / 676 (Běi shǐ revisions). Their distinctive feature is the unified treatment of multiple dynasties of a region as a single connected narrative — abandoning the duàndài 斷代 limit of the conventional zhèngshǐ.
CBDB id 92937. His biographies are in Jiù Tángshū 73 and Xīn Tángshū 102 (KR2a0026, KR2a0027).
Lǐ Yánshòu 李延壽 (Míng-period homonym; fl. Hóngzhì era, late 15th c.), of Jǐnán 濟南 (Shāndōng). Cì jìnshì wénlínláng 賜進士文林郎; served as Xuānchéng zhīxiàn 宣城知縣 (Magistrate of Xuānchéng) and earlier as Hénán dào jiānchá yùshǐ 河南道監察御史 (Investigating Censor of Hénán Circuit). In 1489 (Hóngzhì 2) he prefaced the rediscovered anonymous Sòng paediatric work Xiǎoér wèishēng zǒngwēi lùnfāng 小兒衛生總微論方 (KR3ej017) for his fellow Jǐnán townsman Zhū Chén 朱臣, then Níngguó tōngshǒu. This Míng Lǐ Yánshòu is distinct from the early-Táng historian Lǐ Yánshòu above.