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Liu Bin was a ruler.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
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| Posthumous name |
Shang |
殤 |
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 65Volume 65: Hereditary House of Southern Han · 6 passages
洪熙日益進聲妓誘玢為荒恣。
Hongxi daily presented singing girls and entertainers to lure Bin into dissipation.
玢亦頗疑諸弟圖己，敕宦官守宮門，入者皆露索。
Bin also grew suspicious that his younger brothers plotted against him and ordered eunuchs to guard the palace gates; all who entered were searched naked.
洪熙、洪杲、洪昌陰遣陳道庠養勇士劉思潮、譚令禋、林少強、少良、何昌廷等，習為角觝以獻玢。
Hongxi, Honggao, and Hongchang secretly had Chen Daoxiang train braves — Liu Sixiang, Tan Lingyin, Lin Shaoqiang, Shaoliang, He Changting, and others — in wrestling and present them to Bin.
玢宴長春宮以閱之，玢醉起，道庠與思潮等隨至寢門拉殺之，盡殺其左右。
Bin feasted at Changchun Palace to watch them perform. When Bin rose drunk, Daoxiang and Sixiang followed him to the bedchamber door, seized and killed him, and killed all his attendants.
玢立二年，年二十四，謚曰殤。
Bin had reigned two years and died at the age of twenty-four; his posthumous title was Shang.
既弒玢，遂自立，改元曰應乾，以洪昌為兵馬元帥，知政事，洪杲副元帥，劉思潮等封功臣。
After murdering Bin, he established himself, changed the era name to Yingqian, made Hongchang marshal of horse and foot and director of government affairs, Honggao deputy marshal, and enfeoffed Liu Sixiang and the others as merit ministers.