Liu Fu (劉輔) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Fu as an official. This record brings together 9 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Liu Fu	劉輔	Liu Fu
Surname	Fu	輔	Fu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Uncertain

Roles

Official

Life and dates

Death

Text: died at home
Explicit · hanshu:088:s0117

Career and standing

Text: Magistrate of Xiangben; Grandee Remonstrant
Explicit · hanshu:088:s0094

Places and affiliations

Text: Hejian imperial house
Explicit · hanshu:088:s0093

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 88Volume 77: Gai, Zhuge, Liu, Zheng, Sun, Wujiang and He · 9 passages

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卷七十七蓋諸葛劉鄭孫毋將何傳第四十七 Volume 77: Biographies of Gai, Zhuge, Liu, Zheng, Sun, Wujiang, and He—the forty-seventh series.

劉輔，河間宗室也。 Liu Fu belonged to the Hejian royal lineage.

輔上書言：「臣聞天之所與，必先賜以符瑞； Fu submitted a memorial saying, "I have heard that what Heaven favors it first endows with talismanic omens;

書奏，上使侍御史收縛輔，系掖庭秘獄，群臣莫知其故。 Chengdi jailed him in the harem's secret jail without telling the ministers why.

竊見諫大夫劉輔，前以縣令求見，擢為諫大夫，此其言必有卓詭切至，當聖心者，故得拔至於此。 They said Liu Fu must have touched a nerve to rise so fast from county magistrate.

旬日之間，收下秘獄，臣等愚，以為輔幸得托公族之親，在諫臣之列，新從下土來，未知朝廷體，獨觸忌諱，不足深過。 They pleaded ignorance of court taboo for a newcomer from the provinces.

假令輔不坐直言，所坐不著，天下不可戶曉。 If the charge were murky, rumor would poison trust from gate to gate.

公卿以下見陛下進用輔亟，而折傷之暴，人有懼心，精銳銷耎，莫敢盡節正言，非所以昭有虞之聽，廣德美之風也。 They warned that silencing Liu Fu would teach every official to hold his tongue.

上乃徙繫輔共工獄，減死罪一等，論爲鬼薪。 Chengdi shifted him to a lesser jail and commuted the sentence to convict logging.