Liu Liufu (劉六符) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Liufu as a diplomat, envoy, named individual, and official. This record brings together 21 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Liu Liufu	劉六符	Liu Liufu
Surname	Liu	劉	Liú
Personal name	Liu Liufu	劉六符	Liú Liùfú
Personal name	Liu Liufu	劉六符	Liu Liufu
Given	Liufu	六符	Liùfú

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:086:s0043, liaoshi:096:s0013

Roles

Diplomat
Envoy
Named Individual
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Cause: illness
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0077

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 十一年 · Western Year: AD 1042
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:019:s0038, liaoshi:019:s0039, liaoshi:019:s0050, liaoshi:019:s0057
Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Western Year: AD 1043
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:019:s0068, liaoshi:019:s0099
Source Date: Text: 十年 · Western Year: AD 1041
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:019:s0002, liaoshi:019:s0009, liaoshi:019:s0034
Source Date: Text: 重熙初 · Western Year: AD 1032
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:086:s0060
Source Date: Text: 重熙十一年 · Western Year: AD 1042
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:086:s0061, liaoshi:096:s0012, liaoshi:096:s0013

Family

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Descendant of Liu Jing (劉景)
Generation Distance: 2
Child of Liu Shenxing (劉慎行)
Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Sibling of Liu Yide (劉一德)
Shared Parentage: full

Career and standing

Label: Administrative Drafting Attendant / 政事舍人 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 重熙初 · Western Year: AD 1032
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0060
Label: Associate Chief Councilor of the Secretariat-Chancellery / 同中書門下平章事 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0069
Label: birthday congratulatory envoy to Song / 賀宋生辰使副 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:019:s0009
Label: Changning Army military commissioner / 長寧軍節度使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:019:s0099
Label: Commissioner of the Three Bureaus / 三司使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0070
Label: Deputy Commissioner of the Han Palaces / 漢人行宮副部署 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0062
Label: Hanlin Academician / 翰林學士 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0060
Label: Military Commissioner of Changning / 長寧軍節度使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0071
Label: Han traveling palace deputy deployment director / 漢人行宮副部署 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:019:s0050
Label: Hanlin Academician / 翰林學士 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:019:s0039
Label: Three Departments commissioner / 三司使 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:019:s0099
Label: Commissioner of the Three Bureaus / 三司使 · Action: recalled
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0071
Status: accused · Action: alleged to have accepted Song bribes · Authority Person Id: Du Fang (杜防)
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0071

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:019:s0009, liaoshi:086:s0060, liaoshi:096:s0013

Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0052

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0064, liaoshi:086:s0065, liaoshi:086:s0066, liaoshi:086:s0067, liaoshi:086:s0073, liaoshi:086:s0074, liaoshi:086:s0075

Events and relationships

Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: demanded ten counties from Song · Other Person Id: Xiao Teme (蕭特末) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 重熙十一年 · Western Year: AD 1042
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0061
Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: fixed tribute presentation term · Other Person Id: Yelü Renxian (耶律仁先)
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0063
Kind: diplomatic-mission · Role: Liao envoy to Song · Destination: Label: Song / 宋
Explicit · liaoshi:019:s0034
Kind: diplomatic-mission · Role: Liao territorial envoy to Song
Explicit · liaoshi:019:s0039
Kind: diplomatic-mission · Role: peace negotiator to Song
Explicit · liaoshi:019:s0050
Kind: diplomatic-mission · Role: returned from Song with the oath document
Explicit · liaoshi:019:s0057
Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Du Fang (杜防)
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0071

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: stirred strife to win merit—not to the state advantage · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0186
Kind: character · Statement: had resolve and integrity; could write
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0059

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 19Volume 19 Annals 19: Xingzong 2 · 6 passages

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六月戊寅朔，以蕭寧、耶律坦、崔禹稱、馬世良、耶律仁先、劉六符充賀宋生辰使副； On the wuyin new moon of the sixth month Xiao Ning, Yelü Tan, Cui Yucheng, Ma Shiliang, Yelü Renxian, and Liu Liufu were appointed chief and deputy envoys to congratulate Song on birthdays;

上聞宋設關河，治壕塹，恐為邊患，與南、北樞密吳國王蕭孝穆、趙國王蕭貫寧謀取宋舊割關南十縣地，遂遣蕭英、劉六符使宋。 The Emperor heard that Song had fortified the passes and rivers and dug moats and feared it would become a border threat; with Southern and Northern Privy Commissioners Prince of Wu Xiao Xiaomu and Prince of Zhao Xiao Guanning he plotted to recover the ten Song counties south of the passes ceded in former times, and thereupon dispatched Xiao Ying and Liu Liufu as envoys to Song.

庚戌，遣南院宣徽使蕭特末、翰林學士劉六符使宋，取晉陽及瓦橋以南十縣地； On gengxu day Southern Court commissioner of the palace secretariat Xiao Teme and Hanlin Academician Liu Liufu were dispatched as envoys to Song to recover the ten counties south of Jinyang and Waqiao;

九月壬寅，遣北院樞密副使耶律仁先、漢人行宮副部署劉六符使宋約和。 On renyin day of the ninth month Northern Privy Vice Commissioner Yelü Renxian and Han traveling palace deputy deployment director Liu Liufu were dispatched as envoys to Song to negotiate peace.

辛卯，仁先、劉六符還，進宋國誓書。 On xinmao day Renxian and Liu Liufu returned and presented the Song State oath document.

辛亥，參知政事韓紹芳為廣德軍節度使，三司使劉六符長寧軍節度使。 On xinhai day Associate Councilor Han Shaofang was appointed Guangde Army military commissioner, and Three Departments commissioner Liu Liufu was appointed Changning Army military commissioner.

History of Liao, Chapter 86Volume 86 Biographies 16: Yelu Hezhu, Liu Jing, Liu Liufu, Ye Luniaolu, Niu Wenshu, Du Fang, Xiao Heshang, Yelu Helizhi, Yelu Pode · 14 passages

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耶律合住劉景劉六符耶律甗履牛溫舒杜防蕭和尚 Yelu Hezhu, Liu Jing, Liu Liufu, Yelu Lü, Niu Wenshu, Du Fang, and Xiao Heshang

子慎行，孫一德、二玄、三嘏、四端、五常、六符，皆具六符傳。 His son was Shenxing; his grandsons Yide, Erxuan, Sangu, Siduan, Wuchang, and Liufu are all covered in the following account of Liu Liufu.

劉六符，父慎行，由膳部員外郎累遷至北府宰相、監修國史。 Liu Liufu was the son of Shenxing, who had risen from vice director of the Board of Foodstuffs to grand councilor of the Northern Chancellery and supervisor of the national history.

子六人：一德、二玄、三嘏、四端、五常、六符。 He had six sons: Yide, Erxuan, Sangu, Siduan, Wuchang, and Liufu.

嘏、端、符皆第進士。 Sangu, Siduan, and Liufu all passed the jinshi examination.

六符有誌操，能文。 Liufu was a man of principle and an able writer.

六符曰：「本朝兵強將勇，海內共知，人人願從事於宋。 Liufu said, "Our dynasty's armies are strong and its generals brave—the whole world knows it, and every soldier would gladly march against Song.

六符還，加同中書門下平章事。 On his return Liufu was made associate chief councilor of the Secretariat-Chancellery.

及宋幣至，命六符為三司使以受之。 When the Song payments arrived, he was appointed commissioner of the Three Bureaus to receive them.

六符與參知政事杜防有隙，防以六符嘗受宋賂，白其事，出為長寧軍節度使，俄召為三司使。 Liufu and Vice Director Du Fang were at odds; Fang reported that Liufu had once taken bribes from Song. He was sent out as military commissioner of Changning, but was soon recalled as commissioner of the Three Bureaus.

六符曰：「不然。 Liufu said, "That will not do.

韓紹芳、劉六符忌之，防待以誠。 Han Shaofang and Liu Liufu were jealous of him, yet Fang treated them with sincerity.

明年，與劉六符使宋，索十縣故地，宋請增銀、絹十萬兩、匹以易之。 The following year he went with Liu Liufu to Song to demand the return of ten former counties; Song offered to increase the annual payments of silver and silk by one hundred thousand taels and bolts in exchange.

六符啟釁邀功，豈國家之利哉？ Liufu stirred up conflict to win credit—what advantage was that to the state?

History of Liao, Chapter 96Volume 96 Biographies 26: Yelu Renxian, Yelu Liang, Xiao Hanjianu, Xiao De, Xiao Weixin, Xiao Leyinnu, Yelu Dilie, Yao Jingxing, Yelu Asi · 1 passage

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時宋請增歲幣銀絹以償十縣地產，仁先與劉六符使宋，仍議書「貢」。 At that time the Song court asked to increase the annual payments in silver and silk to compensate for the produce of ten counties. Renxian went on embassy to Song with Liu Liufu, and still pressed that the written agreement use the term "tribute."