Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler

Liu Shan 劉禪

Attested AD 223 - AD 263

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Liu Shan was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 223 to AD 263 章武三年至炎興
Strongly inferred · Records of the Three Kingdoms 33, passages 203-204

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Liu Bei (劉備)
son 後主
Strongly inferred · Records of the Three Kingdoms 33, passages 203, 210

Places and affiliations

Polity Shu Han 蜀 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 33, passage 205

References in the histories

Records of the Three Kingdoms, Chapter 33Volume 33: Book of Shu 3: Biography of the Later Lord · 1 passage

評曰：後主任賢相則為循理之君，惑閹堅則為昏暗之後，傳曰‘素絲無常，唯所染之’，信矣哉！ Chen Shou's judgment runs thus: with good chancellors at his side the Later Lord kept to the right path; once palace eunuchs swayed him he sank into folly. The adage holds: white silk shows whatever dip it meets—his reign proved it true.