Liu Shi 劉寔

Other names

Family

• Descendant of Liu Shou (劉壽)
  descendant 之後 · paternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 151
• Child of Liu Guang (劉廣)
  father 父
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 151

Career and standing

• accounts clerk 計吏
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 156
• Assistant to the Intendant of Henan 河南尹丞
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 156
• participant in the Chancellor of State's military affairs 參文帝相國軍事
  Held · With Prince Wen (文帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 157
• Personnel Ministry gentleman 吏部郎
  Held
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 157
• Director in the Court of Justice 廷尉正
  Promoted to
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 156
• Gentleman of the Masters of Writing 尚書郎
  Promoted to
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 156

Places and affiliations

• Polity Cao Wei 魏 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 156-157
• At Gaotang in Pingyuan 平原高唐
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 150
• At Gaotang 高唐 · Relation Native of
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 150
• At Luoyang 洛 · Relation Traveled to
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 156

Learning and skills

• loved learning; recited texts while knotting cord; broadly mastered ancient and modern
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 153
• Nominated
  Credential Filial and Incorrupt 孝廉 · Negated true · declined
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 155
• Nominated
  Credential Flourishing Talent 秀才 · Negated true · declined
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 155

Works and attributed material

• Treatise on Honoring Yielding 崇讓論
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 162-163
• Treatise on Honoring Yielding 崇讓論
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 162-163
• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · prediction that Zhong Hui and Deng Ai would break Shu but not return
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 159-160
• Treatise on Honoring Yielding 崇讓論
  Treatise · Author · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 162-163

Events and relationships

• Declined xiaolian and xiucai
  Official · Nominee
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 155
• Foretold Shu campaign outcome
  Scholarly · Predictor · With Zhong Hui (鐘會), Deng Ai (鄧艾) · Outcome Fulfilled
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 158-161
• Relation Staff officer of · Person Prince Wen (文帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 157

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment foresight of this order · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 161
• Assessment spotless conduct without blemish · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 154

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 150
• in youth poor and bitter; sold cattle straw cloaks to support himself
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 152