Liu Sheng (劉晟) | 24 Histories

Overview

Liu Sheng was a ruler.

Life and dates

Death

AD 958 周顯德五年
died 卒
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 481, passage 16

Attested activity

AD 943 to AD 958 為弟晟所殺…周顯德五年
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 481, passages 15-16, 41

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Liu Chang (劉鋹)
eldest son 長子
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 17
Child of Liu Yan (劉龑)
father 父
Strongly inferred · History of Song 481, passage 15
Sibling of Liu Bin (劉玢)
younger brother 弟 · Full siblings
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 15

Career and standing

Seized power
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 16

Places and affiliations

Polity Southern Han 南漢 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 16

Works and attributed material

History of the Five Dynasties 五代史
Relation Subject of
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 16

Events and relationships

Killed brother and seized power
Political · Perpetrator · With Liu Bin (劉玢)
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passages 15-16
Seized Gui Chen He during Hunan Ma turmoil
Military · Commander
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 41

Assessments and attributes

Assessment exceptionally cruel and violent · 性尤酷暴 · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 16

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 15
Eunuchs numbered over a thousand; inner regular attendant and commissioner titles added
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 26

References in the histories

History of Song, Chapter 481Volume 481 Biographies 240: Hereditary Houses 4: Southern Han and Liu Clans Liu Chang (Gong Chengshu, Li Tuo, Xue Chongyu, Pan Chongche) · 5 passages

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晉天福七年，卒，子玢嗣，為弟晟所殺。 He died in the seventh year of Later Jin's Tianfu. His son Bin succeeded him but was killed by his younger brother Sheng.

晟遂自立，性尤酷暴，周顯德五年，卒，事具《五代史》。 Sheng then seized power himself. He was exceptionally cruel and violent, and died in the fifth year of Later Zhou's Xiande; the full story is given in the History of the Five Dynasties.

鋹即晟長子也，初名繼興，封衛王，襲父位，改今名，改元大寶。 Chang was Sheng's eldest son, originally named Jixing and enfeoffed Prince of Wei. On succeeding his father he took his present name and proclaimed the era Dabao.

至晟時千餘人，稍增內常侍、諸謁者之稱。 Under Sheng they numbered more than a thousand, and titles such as inner regular attendant and various commissioners were gradually introduced.

先是，晟因湖南馬氏之亂，襲取桂、郴、賀等州。 Earlier, Sheng had exploited the turmoil of Hunan's Ma clan to seize Gui, Chen, He, and other prefectures.