Li Shou

Li Shou (300–343), courtesy name Wukao, formally Emperor Zhaowen of (Cheng) Han, is an emperor of the Chinese/Ba-Di state Cheng Han.

He is the cousin of Cheng Han's founding emperor Li Xiong, but after he overthrows Li Xiong's son Li Qi in 338, he disassociates himself from Li Xiong's regime by renaming the state from Cheng to Han, and further setting up a different imperial ancestral temple.

Traditional historians, however, do not consider his regime a separate state and treat the succession from Li Xiong to Li Shou's son Li Shi as a single Cheng Han state.

Li Shou is initially known for lenience and thriftiness—the same virtues commonly associated with Li Xiong—but later imitates the ruling style of Shi Hu, the emperor of Later Zhao, by ruling harshly and extravagantly, greatly inflicting burdens on the people and damaging the Cheng Han state.

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