Liu Min 柳敏

Other names

Family

• Child of Mother of Liu Min (柳敏母)
  mother 母
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passage 153
• Child of Liu Yi (柳懿)
  orphaned of his father 孤
  Strongly inferred · Book of Zhou 32, passage 153
• Parent of Liu Ang (柳昂)
  youngest son 少子
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passage 340

• Kinship Role sons · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passages 338-339

Career and standing

• attendant-in-ordinary 侍中
  AD 553 益州平 · Added
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Zhou 32, passage 174
• commander-in-chief 帥都督
  Added
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passage 166
• administrator of Hedong 河東郡守
  AD 557 孝閔帝踐阼 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Zhou 32, passage 176
• assistant administrator of Hedong commandery 河東郡丞
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passages 156-157
• bureau director of the Ministry of Rites 禮部郎中
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passage 166
• campaign army marshal 行軍司馬
  AD 553 尉遲迥伐蜀 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Zhou 32, passage 172

Places and affiliations

• Polity Northern Zhou 北周 · Relation Served
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Zhou 32, passages 176, 189
• Polity Sui 隋 · Relation Served
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Zhou 32, passage 335
• Polity Western Wei 西魏 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · Book of Zhou 32, passages 159-160, 165
• At Hedong 河東
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passage 157
• At Fu Province 鄜州 · Relation Posted to · Negated true
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passage 188
• At E Province 郢州 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passage 177

Learning and skills

• Subjects classics and histories 經史, yin-yang lore and divination 陰陽卜筮
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passage 154
• Skill yin-yang divination and oracle techniques 陰陽卜筮之術 · Level studied
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passage 154

Works and attributed material

• new regulations that became the court's administrative code 新制
  AD 541 to AD 546 與蘇綽等修撰新制 · Relation Compiler · With Su Chuo (蘇綽)
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Zhou 32, passage 165
• national history 國史
  Relation Compilation overseer
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passage 186
• statutes and ordinances 律令
  Relation Compilation overseer
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passage 187
• everything needed for the funeral must be kept simple 喪事所須，務從簡約
  Deathbed admonition · Speaker · Paraphrased · Addressees sons
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passage 338

Events and relationships

• Admonished sons to keep funeral simple
  AD 581 開皇元年 · Personal · Dying person
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Zhou 32, passages 338-339
• Avoided farewell gifts by another route
  Political · Departing official
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passages 178-179
• Entrusted with all campaign planning
  AD 553 尉遲迥伐蜀 · Military · Strategist · With Yuchi Jiong (尉遲迥)
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Zhou 32, passage 173
• Led home district militia
  Military · Commander · At his home district 本鄉
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passage 166
• Met and prized by
  AD 537 文帝剋復河東 · Political · Subject · With Emperor Wen (文帝) · At Hedong 河東
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Zhou 32, passage 159
• Mourned mother
  AD 550 to AD 553 遭母憂 · Personal · Mourner · With Mother of Liu Min (柳敏母)
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Zhou 32, passages 168, 170

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment Chinese and non-Chinese gentry, grateful for his benevolent rule, saw him off with wine, food, and local products · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passage 178
• Assessment conduct upright; nature respectful and diligent; rose before dawn to wait for court · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passage 182
• Assessment even-handed in governing his home region and widely esteemed · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passage 158
• Assessment known for filial service to his mother · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passage 153
• Assessment long service in the ministries; thoroughly versed in precedent; corrected ceremonial departures from ancient statutes · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passages 183, 185
• Assessment loved learning and studied widely · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passage 154

Source notes

• concurrent recorder 兼記室 versus variant 掌
  Field office · Source Work Zhou shu annotation
  Textual variant · Book of Zhou 32, passages 162-163
• 儀 preceded by variant 議 in 近（議）儀
  Field wording
  Textual variant · Book of Zhou 32, passages 184-185
• Value historical
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passage 153
• Granted surname
  AD 553 益州平 · From Liu 柳 · To Yuwen 宇文
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Zhou 32, passage 174