Liu Kuan (劉寬) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Kuan as an administrator, aristocrat, official, and scholar. This record brings together 17 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 Kuan	劉寬	Liú Kuān
Given	Kuan	寬	Kuan
Surname	Liu	劉	Liu
Personal name	Liu Kuan	劉寬	Liu Kuan
Posthumous	Marquis Brilliant and Stern	昭烈侯
Title	Marquis of Lu township	逯鄉侯
Courtesy	Wenrao	文饒	Wenrao

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0231
Value: male
Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0195

Roles

Administrator
Aristocrat
Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中平二年 · Western Year: AD 185
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Age

Age: 66 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中平二年 · Western Year: AD 185
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 建初元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 76
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Source Date: Text: 中平二年 · Western Year: AD 185
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Source Date: Text: 光和二年 · Western Year: AD 179
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Source Date: Text: 延熹八年 · Western Year: AD 165
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Source Date: Text: 桓帝時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 146 · End: AD 168
Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0238
Source Date: Text: 熹平五年 · Western Year: AD 176
Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0253
Source Date: Text: 靈帝初 · Western Year: AD 168
Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0250

Family

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Child of Liu Qi (劉崎)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Line: paternal
Parent of Liu Song (劉松)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Line: paternal
Spouse of Wife of Liu Kuan (劉寬夫人)
Kinship Term: wife / 夫人 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife · Relationship State: active

Career and standing

Label: Grand Commandant / 太尉 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光和二年 · Western Year: AD 179 · Other Person Id: Duan Jiong (段颎) · Note: succeeded Duan Jiong
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Label: grand administrator of Nanyang / 南陽太守 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 延熹八年 · Western Year: AD 165
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Label: Prefect of Masters of Writing / 尚書令 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 延熹八年 · Western Year: AD 165
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Label: chief clerk to the Minister of Education / 司徒長史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 桓帝時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 146 · End: AD 168
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Label: Grand Commandant / 太尉 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 熹平五年 · Western Year: AD 176 · Other Person Id: Xu Xun (許訓) · Note: succeeded Xu Xun
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Label: Grand Counselor of the Palace / 太中大夫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 靈帝初 · Western Year: AD 168
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Label: Chamberlain for Palace Attendants / Palace Revenues / 光祿勛 · Action: appointed
Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0252
Label: Chamberlain for Palace Revenues / 光祿勛 · Action: appointed
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Label: Chamberlain for the Imperial Clan / 宗正 · Action: appointed
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Label: chancellor of Donghai / 東海相 · Action: appointed
Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0240
Label: Colonel of Garrison Cavalry / 屯騎校尉 · Action: appointed
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Label: Commandant of the Guards / 衛尉 · Action: appointed
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Label: Palace Attendant / 侍中 · Action: appointed
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Label: Privy Treasurer of Yongle / 永樂少府 · Action: appointed
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Label: Minister of Agriculture / 大司農 · Action: held
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Title: Marquis of Lu township / 逯鄉侯 · Action: enfeoffed · Households: 600
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Label: General of Chariots and Cavalry seal and ribbon / 車騎將軍印綬 · Action: posthumously-granted
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Label: specially advanced rank / 特進 · Action: posthumously-granted
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Title: Marquis of Lu township / 逯鄉侯 · Action: held
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Title: Marquis Brilliant and Stern / 昭烈侯 · Action: posthumously-titled
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Label: dismissal / 免 · Action: suffered · Reason: solar anomaly · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 在職三年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 179 · End: AD 182
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Label: dismissal by edict / 策免 · Action: suffered · Reason: solar eclipse
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Places and affiliations

Label: Eastern Han / 後漢 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · houhanshu:028:s0238
Place: Huayin in Hongnong / 弘農華陰
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Place: Donghai / 東海 · Relation: posted-to
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Place: Nanyang / 南陽 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0241

Works and attributed material

Kind: quotation · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Text: Lead only with punishments and people stay out of trouble but feel no shame. / 齊之以刑，民免而無恥。
Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0243
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Text: I am not drunk—but my burden weighs so heavily that worry feels like wine. / 臣不敢醉，但任重責大，憂心如醉。 · Other Person Id: Emperor Ling (靈帝)
Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0257
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Text: Animals often resemble one another—mistakes happen. Thank you for bringing him back—there is nothing to apologize for. / 物有相類，事容脫誤，幸勞見歸，何為謝之？
Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0236
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Text: Did the stew burn your hand? / 羹爛汝手？
Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0266
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Text: They insulted a fellow human by calling him cattle—that wound cuts deep. That is why I feared he might take his own life. / 此人也，罵言畜產，辱熟甚焉！故吾懼其死也。
Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0263, houhanshu:028:s0264

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: informant · Action: anticipated Yellow Turban plot and reported it upward
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Kind: ritual-moral · Role: administrator · Action: blamed himself when omens appeared
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Kind: education · Role: teacher · Action: convened scholars and students for classical lectures while touring counties
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Kind: administration · Role: administrator · Action: credited subordinates for successes
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Kind: moral-instruction · Role: administrator · Action: exhorted elders on farming and youths on filial duty
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Kind: scholarship · Role: lecturer · Action: expounded classics when summoned by Emperor Ling
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Kind: anecdote · Role: host · Action: feared servant would suicide after guests cursed him as livestock
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Kind: anecdote · Role: official · Action: fell asleep drunk at audience; explained worry felt like wine
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Kind: scholarship · Role: lecturer · Action: lectured on classics at Huaguang Hall · Place: Huaguang Hall / 華光殿 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 靈帝初 · Western Year: AD 168
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Kind: administration · Role: administrator · Action: presided over three commanderies with gentle forbearance
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Kind: administration · Role: administrator · Action: punished with rattan whip only to shame, not injure
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Kind: appointment · Role: recruit · Action: recruited by the Grand General; five promotions · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 桓帝時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 146 · End: AD 168
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Kind: consultation · Role: advisor · Action: specially consulted after capital earthquake · Place: capital / 京師
Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0239
Kind: anecdote · Role: husband · Action: unangered when maid spilled stew on court robes; asked if her hand was burned · Other Person Id: Wife of Liu Kuan (劉寬夫人)
Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0265, houhanshu:028:s0266
Kind: anecdote · Role: victim-of-mistaken-claim · Action: walked home after ox wrongly claimed from his carriage
Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0233, houhanshu:028:s0234
Relation: successor-of · Person Id: Xu Xun (許訓) · Context: 太尉
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Relation: successor-of · Person Id: Duan Jiong (段颎) · Context: 太尉
Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0271
Relation: recommender-of · Person Id: Lu Pi (魯丕)
Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0195

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: lenient and forbearing in governance · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Assessment: people transformed by his virtue day by day · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Assessment: refused to take offense / not retaliating · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Assessment: such was his temperament; called a man of mature virtue throughout the empire · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0267, houhanshu:028:s0268
Kind: habit · Statement: plain and negligent; fond of wine; disliked bathing; became a capital proverb
Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0259
Item: one suit of robes / 衣一襲 · Relation: bestowed
Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0251