After the collapse of the Tang dynasty in 907, they rose to prominence in the court of the Former Shu Kingdom which ruled over the Sichuan region.
She had an older brother Li Xun, who was also a poet and pharmacist at the court and wrote a Chinese book on drugs.
[19][20][21] As a concubine in the imperial court, Shunxian held the rank as Zhaoyi which was just below the title of Empress (consort).
[24][25][26][27][28] In 926, Shunxian, Wang Yan, and his other concubines were all brutally massacred by Emperor Li Zhuangzong of Later Tang.
It is believed that Li Shunxian's family was Zoroastrian because of one line in her poem mentioning a "golden bullet for a catapult" which Veshparkar, an Iranian god was known to deploy.