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Li Shou
Chinese emperor · Lived 300 to 343 · aged 43
Li Shou, courtesy name Wukao (武考), also known by his posthumous name as the Emperor Zhaowen of (Cheng) Han ( 漢昭文帝), was an emperor of the Di-led Chinese Cheng-Han dynasty during the Sixteen Kingdoms era.
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He was the cousin of Cheng-Han's founding emperor Li Xiong, but after he overthrew Li Xiong's son Li Qi in 338, he disassociated 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, did not consider his regime a separate state and treated the succession from Li Xiong to Li Shou's son Li Shi as a single Cheng-Han state. Li Shou was initially known for lenience and thriftiness - the same virtues commonly associated with Li Xiong - but later imitated 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.