Liu Can (柳璨) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Can as an official and statesman. This record brings together 6 passages from 3 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Liu Can	柳璨	Liu Can
Personal name	Liu Can	柳璨	Liu Can
Personal	Liu Can	柳璨	Liǔ Càn

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0009, xinwudaishi:035:s0005
Value: male
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0208

Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天祐初 · Western Year: AD 904
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:184:s0208
Source Date: Text: 昭宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 888 · End: AD 904
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:035:s0141
Source Date: Text: 是歲四月 · Western Year: AD 906
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:035:s0005
Source Date: Text: 柳璨屠害朝士 · Western Interval: Start: AD 904 · End: AD 907
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:068:s0009

Career and standing

Label: Chief Minister / 宰相 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:035:s0005, xinwudaishi:035:s0141

Events and relationships

Kind: killing · Role: killer · Action: killed Lu Yan · Other Person Id: Lu Yan (盧晏)
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0208
Kind: political · Role: perpetrator · Action: purged-officials
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0009
Relation: patron-of · Person Id: Zhao Guangfeng (趙光逢)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:035:s0141

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20: Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan · 1 passage

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時柳璨屠害朝士，衣冠畢罹其毒，廷珪以居常退讓獲全。 When Liu Can was butchering court officials, the entire official class fell victim to him; Tinggui alone escaped harm through his habitual modesty and restraint.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 184Volume 184 Biographies 109: Ma, Yang, Lu, Lu · 1 passage

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子晏，天祐初為河南尉，柳璨殺之。 His son Yan, at the start of Tianyou served as magistrate of Henan; Liu Can killed him.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 35Volume 35 Biographies 15: Zhan Wenyu, Yang She, Zhang Ce, Zhao Guangfeng, Xue Yiju, Su Xun · 4 passages

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是歲四月，彗出西北，掃文昌、軒轅、天市，宰相柳璨希梁王旨，歸其譴於大臣，於是左僕射裴樞、獨孤損、右僕射崔遠、守太保致仕趙崇、兵部侍郎王贊、工部尚書王溥、吏部尚書陸扆皆以無罪貶，同日賜死於白馬驛。 That fourth month a comet swept the northwest heavens; Liu Can pleased Liang by blaming the ministers; Pei Shu, Dugu Sun, Cui Yuan, Zhao Chong, Wang Zan, Wang Pu, and Lu Yi were demoted without crime and executed the same day at White Horse Station.

柳璨殺裴樞等七人，蔓引朝士，輒加誅殺，縉紳相視以目，皆不自保，文蔚力講解之，朝士多賴以全活。 When Liu Can killed Pei Shu and six others and hunted courtiers, gentry exchanged fearful glances; Wenwei argued for mercy, and many owed him their lives.

柳璨為相，與光逢有舊恩，起光逢為吏部侍郎、太常卿。 When Liu Can became chief minister, he recalled Guangfeng, with whom he had old ties, as Vice Minister of Personnel and Grand Master of Splendid Happiness.

及昭宗遇弒，唐政出於梁，楷為起居郎，與柳璨、張廷範等相結，因謂廷範曰：「夫謚者，所以易名而貴信也。 When Zhaozong was murdered and Liang held Tang’s government, Kai was Diarist and joined Liu Can and Zhang Tingfan; he told Tingfan, “A posthumous title should honor truth.