Lǐ Huá 李華 (715–766)
Zì Xiáshū 遐叔. Native of Zhàozhōu 趙州 Zànhuáng 賛皇 (modern Zànhuáng xiàn in Héběi), of the Zhàojùn Lǐ 趙郡李 clan (the same jùnwàng lineage as the imperial Lǐ family). One of the four canonical Tiānbǎo / Dàlì-period fùgǔ prose stylists, alongside Xiāo Yǐngshì 蕭穎士, Dúgū Jí 獨孤及, and Yuán Jié 元結.
Jìnshì and hóngcí 宏辭 (vast-erudition) examination, both passed. Jiānchá yùshǐ 監察御史 in Tiānbǎo; demoted by powerful figures to yòu bǔquē 右補闕. Captured by the An Lùshān rebels in 756 and forced to take the rebel office of Fènggé shèrén 鳳閣舍人 — the disgrace he could not escape. After the rebellion he was demoted to Hángzhōu sīhù cānjūn; later Lǐ Xiàn 李峴 memorialized to place him in his staff and promoted him to lìbù yuánwài láng 吏部員外郎. He resigned for fēngbì 風痺 (paralysis-illness) and died in 766, aged 51.
His extant collection is the Lǐ Xiáshū wénjí KR4c0036 in 4 juǎn — a MíngQīng editorial reconstruction from the original 30-juǎn corpus described in Dúgū Jí’s preface (10 juǎn of qiánjí, 20 juǎn of zhōngjí). His most-anthologized work is the Diào gǔ zhàncháng wén 弔古戰場文 (“Lament for the Ancient Battle-Field”), a meditation on desert warfare that decisively shaped the late-Tang and Sòng biānsài and huáigǔ genres. His late writings (the Quán Gāo bēimíng, the Yuán Déxiù bēimíng, the SìHào míng) are saturated with subtle moral self-vindication for the rebel-court episode.
CBDB confirms 715–766 (cbdbId 32162); the catalog meta’s “唐” without dates is incomplete.