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Overview The translated histories identify Liu Gengsheng as an official and scholar. This record brings together 8 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
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Liu Gengsheng
劉更生
Liu Gengsheng
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Gengsheng
更生
Personal
Liu Gengsheng
劉更生
Liú Gēngshēng
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Book of Han, Chapter 89 Volume 78: Xiao Wangzhi · 6 passages
望之選白宗室明經達學散騎諫大夫劉更生給事中，與侍中金敞並拾遺左右。
Wangzhi recommended Liu Gengsheng of the imperial clan, a classicist of proven learning, as cavalier attendant and remonstrance grandee in the palace secretariat, together with Palace Attendant Jin Chang to remedy oversights at the emperor's side.
上初即位，謙讓重改作，議久不定，出劉更生為宗正。
The young emperor shrank from sweeping reform; while debate stalled, Liu Gengsheng was parked in the Directorate of Imperial Clan Affairs.
朋，楚士，怨恨，更求入許、史，推所言許、史事曰：「皆周堪、劉更生教我，我關東人，何以知此？」
Peng, a man of Chu, nursed a grudge, sought favor with the Xu and Shi clans, and shifted blame for his charges, saying, "Zhou Kan and Liu Gengsheng taught me all of this. I am a Guandong man—how would I know such things?"
恭、顯奏「望之、堪、更生朋黨相稱舉，數譖訴大臣，毀離親戚，欲以專擅權勢，為臣不忠，誣上不道，請謁者召致廷尉。」
Hong Gong and Shi Xian memorialized that "Wangzhi, Zhou Kan, and Liu Gengsheng had formed a faction, repeatedly slandered great ministers, divided kinsmen, and sought to monopolize power; as disloyal ministers guilty of impiety toward the throne, they asked that an usher deliver them to the commandant of justice."
後上召堪、更生，曰繫獄。
When the emperor later summoned Zhou Kan and Liu Gengsheng, he was told they were already in prison.
其赦望之罪，收前將軍光祿勳印綬，及堪、更生皆免為庶人。」
Pardon Wangzhi, take back his seals as former general and superintendent of the household, and dismiss Zhou Kan and Liu Gengsheng to commoner status."
Book of Han, Chapter 105 Volume 93: Flatterers · 2 passages