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Liu Mian 劉勔

Liú Miǎn

Died AD 474

Passages
40
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Mian as an administrator, aristocrat, general, and official. This record brings together 40 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Found inBook of Song

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Liu Mian 劉勔 Liú Miǎn
Courtesy name Boyou 伯猷 Bóyóu
Posthumous name Duke Zhongzhao 忠昭公
Title founding marquis of Poyang 鄱陽縣開國侯
Surname Liu 劉 Liú
Personal name Liu Mian 劉勔 Liú Miǎn
Title Marquis of Poyang 鄱陽縣侯
Given Mian 勔 Miǎn

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Aristocrat
  • General
  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

  • Cause: died in battle · Manner: killed-in-action · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元徽二年 · Western Year: AD 474
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0154

Age

Attested activity

Family

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  • Descendant of Liu Huaiyi (劉懷義)
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
  • Child of Liu Yingzhi (劉穎之)
    Parentage: biological · Kinship Term: father / 父 · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Line: paternal
  • Child of Mother of Liu Mian
    Parentage: biological · Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother · Line: maternal
  • Parent of Liu Jun (劉悛)
    Parentage: biological · Kinship Term: son / 子 · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  • Sibling of Liu Jiao (劉斅)
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: younger · Shared Parentage: full

Career and standing

  • Label: Administrator of Suiyuan / 綏遠太守 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉二十七年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 27 · Western Year: AD 450
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0047
  • Label: General Who Pacifies the Distant / 寧遠將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉二十七年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 27 · Western Year: AD 450
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0047
  • Label: Attendant / 侍中 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 470
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0142
  • Label: Attendant-in-Ordinary / 散騎常侍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 其年 · Western Year: AD 469
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0136
  • Label: General of the Central Army / 中領軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 其年 · Western Year: AD 469
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0136
  • Label: Colonel of the Garrison Cavalry / 屯騎校尉 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 前廢帝即位 · Western Year: AD 465
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0059
  • Label: General Who Quells Might / 振威將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 前廢帝即位 · Western Year: AD 465
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0059
  • Label: General of the Right / 右將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: AD 468
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0083
  • Label: Major on Ningshuo staff / 寧朔司馬 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大明初 · Western Year: AD 457
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0053
  • Label: General Who Pacifies the North / 寧朔將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗即位 · Western Year: AD 465
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0060
  • Label: Guardian Minister and Right Vice Director of the Secretariat / 守尚書右僕射 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗臨崩 · Western Year: AD 472
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0146
  • Label: Acting General Who Pacifies the North / 行寧朔將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 孝建初 · Western Year: AD 454
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0051
  • Label: Interior Minister of Xiangdong / 湘東內史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 孝建初 · Western Year: AD 454
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0051
  • Label: Commander of western-expedition vanguard forces / 督西討前鋒諸軍事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 泰始三年 · Western Year: AD 467
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0076
  • Label: General Who Campaigns the Barbarians / 征虜將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 泰始三年 · Western Year: AD 467
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0076
  • Label: Acting General Who Assists the State / 假輔國將軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0062
  • Label: Acting General Who Pacifies the North / 假平北將軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0144
  • Label: Adjutant of the central army on Prince Xin'an Ziluan's staff / 新安王子鸞撫軍中兵參軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0058
  • Label: Adjutant on Prince Xiyang Zishang's pacification staff / 西陽王子尚撫軍參軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0055
  • Label: Administrator of Jinkang / 晉康太守 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0052
  • Label: Administrator of Yulin / 鬱林太守 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0052, songshu:086:s0056
  • Label: Bearer of credentials and General of the Army defending Stone City / 使持節、領軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0151
  • Label: Bearer of credentials; Commander of Southern Xu, Yan, Qing, Ji; General Who Pacifies the North / 使持節、都督南徐兗青冀等、平北將軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0143
  • Label: Bearer of credentials; Commander of Yu and Si; General Who Campaigns the Barbarians; Governor of Yu / 使持節、都督豫司二州、征虜將軍、豫州刺史 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0081
  • Label: Chief clerk of the military office / 軍府主簿 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0049
  • Label: Chief clerk of the Yanglie office / 揚烈府主簿 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0046
  • Label: General of the Dragon Cavalry / 龍驤將軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0056
  • Label: General of the Right Guard / 右衛將軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0081
  • Label: General Who Assists the State / 輔國將軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0065
  • Label: Inner guard duty / 入直閣 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0055
  • Label: Left Commandant of the Crown Prince's Guard / 太子左衛率 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0074
  • Label: Major on Prince Shanyang Xiuyou's agile cavalry staff / 山陽王休祐驃騎司馬 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0063
  • Label: Protector-General of the West River / 西江督護 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0056
  • Label: Supernumerary Gentlemen-Attendant at the Palace Gate / 員外散騎侍郎 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0050
  • Label: General Who Pacifies the West and Governor of Yu / 平西將軍、豫州刺史 · Action: declined · Negated: true · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 469
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0135
  • Label: Attendant and Colonel of Archers Who Shoot by Sound / 侍中，領射聲校尉 · Action: declined · Negated: true · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: AD 468
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0082
  • Label: Adjutant of the central army on Prince Xin'an Ziluan's staff / 新安王子鸞撫軍中兵參軍 · Action: declined · Negated: true
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0058
  • Label: Attendant and military title / 侍中、軍號 · Action: declined · Negated: true
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0144
  • Label: Bearer of credentials; Commander of Guang and Jiao; General of the Center Who Pacifies the Yue; Governor of Guang / 使持節、督廣交二州、平越中郎將、廣州刺史 · Action: declined · Negated: true
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0069
  • Label: Commander of Yi and Ning; Governor of Yi / 督益寧二州、益州刺史 · Action: declined · Negated: true
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0073
  • Label: General Who Assists the State / Adviser / Administrator of Liang with credentials / 輔國將軍、驃騎諮議參軍、梁郡太守、假節 · Action: declined · Negated: true
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0065
  • Label: Adjutant on Prince Jianping Jingsu's pacification staff / 建平王景素輔國司馬 · Action: held
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0061
  • Label: Magistrate of Zengcheng / 廣州增城令 · Action: held
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0046
  • Label: Attendant-in-Ordinary / 散騎常侍 · Action: posthumously-granted
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0163
  • Label: Minister of Works / 司空 · Action: posthumously-granted
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0163
  • Label: command, acting rank, and credentials staff / 都督、假號、并節 · Action: relieved · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 七年 · Western Year: AD 471
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0145
  • Title: Marquis of Poyang / 鄱陽縣侯 · Action: enfeoffed · Households: 1000
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0074
  • Title: Fifth-rank Marquis of Jincheng / 金城縣五等侯 · Action: enfeoffed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0054
  • Title: Marquis of Dating / 大亭侯 · Action: enfeoffed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0049
  • Title: Duke Zhongzhao / 忠昭公 · Action: posthumously-granted
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0163
  • Status: poor · Action: held
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0046
  • Status: guard-increased · Action: received · Count: 500
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0147

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: city lost nothing; people grateful; stele erected in his lifetime · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0071, songshu:086:s0072
  • Assessment: had resolve and integrity; loved literature · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0045
  • Assessment: laughed and gave his horse rather than punish presumption · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0068
  • Assessment: praised by Yuan Can and court; request should be granted · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Witness Person Id: Yuan Can (袁粲)
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0138
  • Assessment: skilled at winning generals; generous; relied upon · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0067
  • Item: coral trees joined in one trunk / 珊瑚連理樹 · Relation: presented
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0057
  • Item: famous horses / 名馬 · Relation: obtained
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0057
  • Item: his own horse / 所自乘馬 · Relation: gave · Other Person Id: Wang Guangzhi (王廣之)
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0068
  • Item: one set of martial music / 鼓吹一部 · Relation: bestowed
    Explicit · songshu:086:s0146

References in the histories

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Book of Song, Chapter 86Volume 86 Biographies 46: Yin Xiaozu, Liu Mian · 39 passages
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其年，南兗州刺史齊王出鎮淮陰，以勔為使持節、都督南徐、兗、青、冀、囗五州諸軍事、平北將軍，侍中、中領軍如故，出鎮廣陵。 That year Prince Qi, governor of Southern Yanzhou, went out to garrison Huaiyin. Mian was made bearer of the credentials staff, commander of military affairs in Southern Xu, Yan, Qing, Ji, and [text defective] provinces, general who pacifies the north, with attendant and general of the central army unchanged, and went out to garrison Guangling.
Book of Song, Chapter 89Volume 89 Biographies 49: Yuan Can · 1 passage
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