Liu Han (劉捍) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Han as a courtier, envoy, general, and military officer. This record brings together 27 passages from 5 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Liu Han	劉捍	Liú Hàn
Given	Han	捍	Han
Surname	Liu	劉	Liu
Personal	Liu Han	劉捍
Personal name	Liu Han	劉捍	Liu Han
Personal	Liu Han	劉捍	Liu Han
Personal name	Liu Kan	劉捍	Liu Kan
Alternate name		劉捏

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:012:s0038, jiuwudaishi:024:s0051, xinwudaishi:002:s0064
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:020:s0038, xinwudaishi:044:s0015

Roles

Courtier
Envoy
General
Military Officer
Official

Life and dates

Death

Place: Fengxiang / 鳳翔 · Cause: killed · Authority Person Id: Li Maozhen (李茂貞)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0062
Manner: died
Explicit · xinwudaishi:044:s0019

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: Founder court period · Western Interval: Start: AD 903 · End: AD 907
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:024:s0051
Source Date: Text: 光化三年六月 · Western Year: AD 900
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:020:s0045
Source Date: Text: 唐中和四年夏 · Western Year: AD 884
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:020:s0041
Source Date: Text: 執劉捍送鳳翔 · Western Interval: Start: AD 907 · End: AD 912
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:044:s0015
Source Date: Text: 天復三年正月 · Western Year: AD 903
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:020:s0049
Source Date: Text: 天祐三年正月 · Western Year: AD 906
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:020:s0054
Source Date: Text: 开平三年六月庚戌 · Western Year: AD 909
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:002:s0064
Source Date: Text: 文德元年十一月 · Western Year: AD 888
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:020:s0044
Source Date: Text: 昭宗歸長安 · Western Year: AD 903
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:012:s0038, jiuwudaishi:012:s0033
Source Date: Text: 開平四年 · Western Year: AD 910
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:020:s0063

Family

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Child of Liu Xingxian (劉行仙)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: deputy master of ceremonies / 副典客 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0040
Label: Left long-direct army commissioner / 左長直軍使 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0051
Label: military governor of Youguo / 佑国军节度使 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:002:s0064
Label: Grand Tutor (posthumous) / 太傅 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平四年 · Western Year: AD 910
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0063
Label: Grand Commandant (posthumous) / 太尉 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0064
Status: captivity · Action: seized · Authority Person Id: Liu Zhijun (劉知俊)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0061

Places and affiliations

Polity Name: Later Liang · Relation: served-or-associated
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:020:s0038
Place: Kaifeng / 開封
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0038

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: witness · Action: backed-false-accusation · Other Person Id: Lu Ceng (盧曾)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0054
Kind: military · Role: supervisor · Action: recruited-troops · Other Person Id: Zhu Zhen (朱珍) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 唐中和四年夏 · Western Year: AD 884
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0041, jiuwudaishi:020:s0042
Kind: captivity · Role: captive · Action: seized-by-Liu-Zhijun · Other Person Id: Liu Zhijun (劉知俊)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:002:s0064
Relation: envoy-of · Person Id: Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:012:s0038

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 12Volume 12 Book of Later Liang 12: Biographies 2: Imperial Family · 1 passage

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太祖怒，遣劉捍督戰。 The Founder, enraged, sent Liu Han to take command of the siege.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 20Volume 20 Book of Later Liang 20: Biographies 10: Xie Tong, Si Maye, Liu Han, Wang Jinrao, Gao Shao, Ma Sixun, Zhang Cunjin, Kou Yanqing · 20 passages

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劉捍，開封人。 Liu Han came from Kaifeng.

捍少為牙職，太祖初鎮夷門，以捍聰敏，擢副典客。 As a youth Han served in the yamen staff; when the Founder first took Bian he made the quick-witted Han his deputy master of ceremonies.

唐中和四年夏，太祖以朱珍為淄州刺史，令收兵於淄、青間，命捍監其兵，路逢大敵，皆破之。 Summer of Zhonghe 4, the Founder sent Zhu Zhen to gather troops between Zi and Qing with Han overseeing his force; every major foe they met was defeated.

文德元年十一月，蔡將申叢折宗權足，納款於太祖，使捍奏其事，加兼御史大夫。 In the eleventh month of Wende 1 the Cai general Shen Cong broke Zongquan's foot and surrendered; Han carried word of it to the Founder and received concurrent rank as Censor-in-Chief.

光化三年六月，太祖北伐鎮、定，至常山，而王钅容危懾，送款於太祖，命捍入壁門傳諭。 In the sixth month of Guanghua 3 the Founder marched north against Zhen and Ding; at Changshan a terrified Wang Rong submitted, and the Founder sent Han through the barbican to announce terms.

時兩軍未整，守門者戈戟千匝，捍馳騎而入，竟達其命。 While both armies were still unprepared, spears ringed the gate a thousand deep; Han rode straight through and carried out his orders.

又移師以攻中山，至懷德驛，大破定人五萬眾，王處直乞降，捍復單馬入州，安撫而回。 He marched on Zhongshan next; at Huaidi post fifty thousand men of Ding were shattered; Wang Chuzhi sued for peace; Han rode in alone again to calm the city and came back.

太祖迎昭宗於岐下，以捍為親軍指揮。 When the Founder welcomed Zhaozong at Qi's walls, he made Han commander of his personal guard.

天復三年正月，宋文通令客將郭啟奇使於太祖，命捍復命。 In the first month of Tianfu 3, Song Wentong sent his guest-officer Guo Qiqi to the Founder with Han as the envoy to reply.

昭宗還京，改常州刺史，賜號迎鑾毅勇功臣。 When Zhaozong returned to the capital Han became prefect of Chang and received the title "Meritous Minister for Courageously Welcoming the Imperial Chariot."

四月，太祖伐王師範於青州，改左右長直都指揮使。 In the fourth month, as the Founder attacked Wang Shifan at Qingzhou, Han was made commander of the left and right Long-Straight guards.

太祖受禪，授左龍虎統軍兼元從新軍馬步都虞候。 When the Founder took the throne he made Han commander of the Left Dragon-Tiger Guard and chief adjutant of his personal new army, horse and foot.

及上黨纏兵，太祖親往巡撫，以捍為御營使。 When war tangled at Shangdang the Founder went in person and made Han commissioner of the imperial camp.

大軍次昂車，斥候來告蕃戎逼澤州，命捍以兵千人赴之，並軍遂遁，車駕還京，授捍侍衛親軍都指揮使。 The army halted at Angche; scouts reported barbarians pressing Ze; the Founder sent Han with a thousand men and the enemy fled; when the emperor returned to the capital Han was made commander of the palace guard.

晉人侵晉州，從幸陝回，加檢校太保。 When the Jin struck Jinzhou and Han followed the court to Shan and back, he received acting rank as Grand Guardian.

及從駕幸河中，詔追王重師赴行在，以捍為雍州節度觀察留後。 When the court moved to Hezhong, Wang Chongshi was recalled and Han was made acting military and surveillance commissioner of Yongzhou.

才逾月，劉知俊據同州反，潛使人以厚利啖將校，遂為部下所執，送於知俊。 Barely a month later Liu Zhijun rebelled at Tongzhou and secretly bribed Han's officers; they seized him and handed him to Zhijun.

知俊縶捍歸於鳳翔，為李茂貞所害。 Zhijun sent Han bound to Fengxiang, where Li Maozhen put him to death.

捍便習賓讚，善於將迎，自司賓局及征討四出，必預其間。 Han mastered guest rites and welcome ceremony; from the Bureau of Guest Rites to every campaign abroad he was always in the thick of it.

太祖每言曰：「敬翔、劉捏、寇彥卿，蓋為我而生。」 The Founder would say: "Jing Xiang, Liu Han, and Kou Yanqing might as well have been made for me."

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 24Volume 24 Book of Later Liang 24: Biographies 14: Li Ting, Lu Ceng, Sun Zhi, Zhang Jun, Zhang Yan, Du Xunhe, Luo Yin, Chou Yin, Duan Shen · 2 passages

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左長直軍使劉捍委任方重，曾亦不能平。 Left long-direct army commissioner Liu Kan was then in full favor; Ceng could not abide him either.

小將恐事泄，先誣告曾使酒，幾敗軍事，劉捍因證之，由是罷職，歸於齊之別墅。 The officer, fearing exposure, accused Ceng first of drunkenness on duty and nearly wrecked the mission; Liu Kan backed the charge; Ceng was dismissed and retired to a villa in Qi.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 2Volume 2 Later Liang Annals 2: Taizu 2 · 1 passage

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六月庚戌，刘知俊执佑国军节度使刘捍，叛附于岐。 In the sixth month, on the day gengxu, Liu Zhijun arrested Liu Han of Youguo, rebelled, and joined Qi.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 44Volume 44 Miscellaneous Biographies 24: Liu Zhijun, Ding Hui, He Delun, Yan Bao, Kang Yanxiao · 3 passages

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知俊遂叛，臣於李茂貞，以兵攻雍、華，執劉捍送於鳳翔。 Zhijun rebelled, submitted to Li Maozhen, struck Yong and Hua, seized Liu Han, and sent him to Fengxiang.

太祖復使語曰：「朕固知卿以此，吾誅重師，乃劉捍誤我，致卿至此，吾豈不恨之邪？ Zhu Wen sent word again: “I knew why you fled. I killed Zhongshi because Liu Han misled me and drove you away—do you think I do not regret it?

今捍已死，未能塞責。」 Han is dead, and still I cannot make amends.”