Liu Huaiwei 劉懷慰

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
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Roles

• Official
• Writer

Family

• Descendant of Liu Fengbo (劉奉伯)
  Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal · Intermediary Person Ids: Liu Chenmin (劉乘民)
• Kin of Widowed aunt of Liu Huaiwei
  Kinship Term: widowed aunt by marriage / 叔母 · Intermediary Person Ids: Liu Chenmin (劉乘民), Paternal uncle of Liu Huaiwei
• Child of Liu Chenmin (劉乘民)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

• Kinship Role: orphaned younger siblings · Quantity: plural; exact count unstated · Action: raised
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• Kinship Role: wife and children · Quantity: one wife and an unstated number of children · Residence: capital
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Career and standing

• Action: appointed · Appointments: Adjutant to the Southern Gentlemen of the Interior under the Prince of Shaoling / 邵陵王南中郎參軍, Magistrate of Guangde / 廣德令, Director in the Imperial Carriages Office / 尚書駕部郎
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• Action: appointed · Appointments: Colonel of Foot Soldiers / 步兵校尉
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• Action: appointed · Appointments: General Who Supports the State / 輔國將軍, Grand Administrator of Qi Commandery / 齊郡太守
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• Action: appointed · Appointments: Overseer of Dongyang Commandery / 監東陽郡
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• Action: began service · Appointments: Acting Adjutant on the Northern Campaign Staff of the Prince of Guiyang / 桂陽王征北板行參軍
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• Action: promoted after two years · Appointments: Regular Staff Gentleman / 正員郎, Chief Arbiter for Qing and Ji Provinces / 青冀二州中正
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• Action: promoted · Appointments: Supervisor of Qin and Pei Commanderies / 督秦、沛二郡
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• Action: served concurrently · Appointments: Aide-de-camp to the Northern Gentlemen of the Interior under the Prince of Anlu / 安陸王北中郎司馬
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• Status: trusted confidant of the Founding Emperor · Action: included with clansman Shanming and others
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Places and affiliations

• Place: Pingyuan in Pingyuan / 平原平原
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Works and attributed material

• Work: An Essay on Imperial Virtue / 皇德論 · Relation: author-and-submitter · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永明初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 483 · End: AD 485
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• Work: An Essay on Incorrupt Officials / 廉吏論 · Relation: author
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• Work: literary writings / 文翰 · Relation: author
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• Kind: admonitory letter · Role: author · Other Person Id: Shen Youzhi (沈攸之) · Statement: warned and instructed Shen Youzhi at the Founding Emperor's order
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• Kind: oral refusal · Role: speaker · Statement: declined a commoner's one hu of new rice because his barley meal was sufficient
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Events and relationships

• Kind: mourning · Action: abstained from pickled foods and padded winter clothing while mourning his father
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• Kind: family-care · Action: raised orphaned younger siblings and cared for his widowed aunt with kindness
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• Kind: public-works · Action: repaired walls and moats, settled residents, reclaimed two hundred qing, and opened Shen Lake for irrigation
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• Relation: old-associate-of · Person Id: Shen Youzhi (沈攸之)
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• Relation: friend-of · Person Id: Jiang Yan (江淹)
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• Relation: friend-of · Person Id: Yuan Tuan (袁彖)
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• Relation: clansman-of · Person Id: Liu Shanming (劉善明)
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Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: officials and commoners felt secure under his Dongyang administration · Provenance: Mode: collective-reputation
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• Assessment: refused gifts and demonstrated austere self-sufficiency · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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• Item: jade ring-hilted sword / 玉環刀一口 · Relation: bestowed · Source Person Id: Emperor Gao of Qi (齊高帝)
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• Item: three hundred hu of rice / 米三百斛 · Relation: bestowed for wife and children in the capital
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Source notes

• From: Wenwei / 聞慰 · To: Huaiwei / 懷慰 · Authority Person Id: Xiao Ze (蕭賾) · Reason: his original name matched Emperor Wu's maternal uncle · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 世祖卽位 · Western Year: AD 483
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