The paternal lineage of Lý Thái Tổ was not prominently recorded in Vietnamese official history.
[1] According to Dream Pool Essays by Shen Kuo, Lý Thái Tổ was "a man of Fujian extraction".
[3][4] After Lý Công Uẩn became emperor, he granted his father the title Hiển Khánh vương (顯慶王) posthumously.
[6][7] Historical sources disagree on whether Li Chun'an's wife Phạm Thị Ngà gave birth to Lý Công Uẩn in Fujian or Jiaozhi.
He resettled in the Li Family village in Anhai, Quanzhou and became a Water mid Land Transport Commissioner (水陸轉運使) at some point.