Liu Bingzhong (劉秉忠)

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Bingzhong as an official and statesman. This record brings together 14 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Liu Bingzhong	劉秉忠	Liu Bingzhong
Given	Bingzhong	秉忠	Bingzhong
Given	Bingzhong	秉忠
Title	Grand Guardian	太保
Surname	Liu	劉	Liu
Surname	Liu	劉
Personal name	Liu Bingzhong	劉秉忠	Liu Bingzhong

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:110:s0002, yuanshi:110:s0322
Sex: male
Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0036

Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 至元元年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1264
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:110:s0322, yuanshi:110:s0319
Source Date: Text: 至元十年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 1273
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:110:s0367, yuanshi:110:s0364
Source Date: Text: 至元十一年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 11 · Western Year: AD 1274
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:110:s0372, yuanshi:110:s0369
Source Date: Text: 至元二年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1265
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:110:s0327, yuanshi:110:s0324
Source Date: Text: 至元三年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1266
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:110:s0332, yuanshi:110:s0329
Source Date: Text: 至元四年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 1267
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:110:s0337, yuanshi:110:s0334
Source Date: Text: 至元五年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 5 · Western Year: AD 1268
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:110:s0342, yuanshi:110:s0339
Source Date: Text: 至元六年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1269
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:110:s0347, yuanshi:110:s0344
Source Date: Text: 至元七年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 1270
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:110:s0352, yuanshi:110:s0349
Source Date: Text: 至元八年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 1271
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:110:s0357, yuanshi:110:s0354
Source Date: Text: 至元九年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 1272
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:110:s0362, yuanshi:110:s0359
Source Date: Text: 世祖時 · Western Interval: Start: c. AD 1260 · End: c. AD 1277
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:191:s0039
Source Date: Text: 元初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1260 · End: AD 1294
Explicit · yuanshi:110:s0002
Source Date: Text: 先陽責太保劉秉忠 · Western Year: AD 1273
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:114:s0036

Origins and identity

Label: Han Chinese / 漢人
Explicit · yuanshi:110:s0002
Label: Han / 漢人
Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0036

Career and standing

Label: Grand Guardian / 太保 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1260 · End: AD 1294
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:110:s0002
Label: Grand Guardian / 太保 · Action: held · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 至元元年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1264 · End Date: Source Date: Text: 至元十一年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 11 · Western Year: AD 1274
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:110:s0322, yuanshi:110:s0327, yuanshi:110:s0332, yuanshi:110:s0337, yuanshi:110:s0342, yuanshi:110:s0347, yuanshi:110:s0352, yuanshi:110:s0357, yuanshi:110:s0362, yuanshi:110:s0367, yuanshi:110:s0372, yuanshi:110:s0297, yuanshi:110:s0319, yuanshi:110:s0369
Label: Grand Mentor / 太保 · Action: held
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0039

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: yuan · Relation: served
Explicit · yuanshi:110:s0002, yuanshi:110:s0292, yuanshi:110:s0322

Works and attributed material

Kind: assessment · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Tan Cheng (譚澄) · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Liu Bingzhong (劉秉忠)
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0039

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: rare-Han-holder-of-grand-guardian · Label: Among Han officials only Liu Bingzhong ever held Grand Guardian / 漢人則惟劉秉忠嘗為太保 · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · yuanshi:110:s0002

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 110Volume 110 Tables 5: Three Ducal Ministers 1 · 12 passages

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元初，以太師、太傅、太保為三公，自木華黎國王始為太師，後凡為三公者，皆國之元勳，而漢人則惟劉秉忠嘗為太保，其後鮮有聞矣。 Early in the Yuan dynasty the Grand Preceptor, Grand Tutor, and Grand Guardian constituted the Three Excellencies. Muqali, enfeoffed as king, was the first Grand Preceptor; thereafter every man raised to these three posts was a founding pillar of the realm. Among Han officials only Liu Bingzhong ever held Grand Guardian — and scarcely anyone among the Han after him.

劉秉忠 Liu Bingzhong

History of Yuan, Chapter 114Volume 114 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 · 1 passage

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后至帝前，將諫，先陽責太保劉秉忠曰：「汝漢人聰明者，言則帝聽，汝何為不諫？ The empress came before the emperor intending to remonstrate; she first openly rebuked Grand Guardian Liu Bingzhong: "You are a clever Han man, and when you speak the emperor listens — why did you not remonstrate?

History of Yuan, Chapter 191Volume 191 Biographies 78: Virtuous Officials 1 · 1 passage

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世祖嘗與太保劉秉忠論一時牧守，秉忠曰：「若邢之張耕，懷之譚澄，何憂不治哉！」 Kublai once discussed the governors and prefects of the day with Grand Mentor Liu Bingzhong, who said: "With men like Zhang Geng of Xingzhou and Tan Cheng of Huai prefecture, what worry would there be about good governance!"