Five Dynasties · Consort

Empress Liu 劉後

Liu

Attested AD 923 - AD 926

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Empress Liu was a consort.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 923 to AD 926 劉後皇業斯墜
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 49, passage 105

Events and relationships

Brought down imperial enterprise
Political · Cause of fall · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 49, passage 105

Assessments and attributes

Assessment like a hen crowing at dawn, brought down the imperial enterprise · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 49, passage 105

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 49, passage 105

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 49Volume 49 Book of Later Tang 25: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage

而劉後以牝雞之晨，皇業斯墜，則與夫三代之興亡同矣。 But Empress Liu, like a hen crowing at dawn, brought down the imperial enterprise—and in this she resembled the rise and fall of the Three Dynasties.