Liu Guangshi (劉光世)

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Guangshi as a general. This record brings together 3 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Liu Guangshi	劉光世	Liu Guangshi
Personal name	Liu Guangshi	劉光世	Liu Guangshi
Personal	Liu Guangshi	劉光世

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · songshi:359:s0021, songshi:469:s0021

Roles

General

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 1136
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:359:s0159, songshi:359:s0155
Source Date: Text: 即位後 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1127 · End: AD 1129
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:469:s0021
Source Date: Text: 四年冬 · Western Year: AD 1134
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:359:s0021, songshi:359:s0008

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated-puppet-Qi · Place: Huai and Fei / 淮、肥 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 1136
Explicit · songshi:359:s0159
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: ordered-to-cross-river · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四年冬 · Western Year: AD 1134
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:359:s0021, songshi:359:s0008

References in the histories

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History of Song, Chapter 359Volume 359 Biographies 118: Li Gang 2 · 2 passages

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時韓世忠屢敗金人于淮、楚間，有旨督劉光世、張浚統兵渡河，車駕進發至江上勞軍。 At that time Han Shizhong had repeatedly defeated the Jurchens between the Huai and Chu regions. An edict ordered Liu Guangshi and Zhang Jun to lead troops across the river, and the imperial carriage advanced to the Yangzi to review the army.

已而宋師屢捷，劉光世、張俊、楊沂中大破偽齊兵於淮、肥之上。 Soon afterward Song forces won repeated victories, and Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun, and Yang Qizhong routed the puppet Qi army along the Huai and Fei.

History of Song, Chapter 469Volume 469 Biographies 228: Eunuchs 4: Shao Chengzhang, Lan Gui Kanglu, Feng Yi, Zhang Quwei, Chen Yuan, Gan Bian, Wang Deqian, Guan Li, Dong Songchen · 1 passage

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既即位，二人俱恃恩用事，履尤妄作威福，大將如劉光世等多曲意事之。 After his accession both men traded on old favor to run affairs; Lu in particular lorded it over everyone, and commanders such as Liu Guangshi routinely humored them.