appears in many Chinese folk tales and novels. Many of his legends were recorded in the Taiping Guangji (太平廣記), a record of stories compiled during the Song dynasty. The novel Romance of Sui and Tang (隋唐演義), written by the Qing dynasty author Chu Renhuo (褚人獲), for example, had Li prominently featured. The novel that most prominently featured Li, however, was the late Tang dynasty short story Biography of the Dragon-Beard Man (虬髯客傳), written by the official Du Guangting (杜光庭), which featured, as its three central characters, Li, his purported wife Zhang Chuchen (張出塵), and an ambitious man who taught Li military strategies, known only as the "Dragon-Beard Man." There is no evidence to show that any of the fictional treatments of Li's life had bases in fact. The novel Fengshen Yanyi also had a substantial character named Li Jing, apparently borrowing a number of the real Li's personal characteristics, but as the Fengshen Yanyi was set near the end of the legendary Shang dynasty, more than 2,000 years before the historical Li Jing, it was not actually referring to the same person. See also Emperor Taizong's campaign against Tuyuhun References Old Book of Tang, vol. 67. New Book of Tang, vol. 93. Zizhi Tongjian, vols. 184, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 193, 194, 196, 197, 198, 199. 571 births 649 deaths Chancellors under Emperor Taizong of Tang Chinese military writers Military strategists Northern Zhou people Sui dynasty people Tang dynasty generals at war against the Göktürks Tang dynasty writers Transition from Sui to Tang Tuyuhun