Liu Shihuan (劉仕貆)

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Shihuan as an administrator and official. This record brings together 8 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Liu Shihuan	劉仕貆	Liu Shihuan
Courtesy	Bozhen	伯貞	Bozhen

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · mingshi:140:s0071

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: drowned · Place: river crossing
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 元末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1351 · End: AD 1368
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Source Date: Text: 洪武初 · Western Year: AD 1368
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Source Date: Text: 洪武十五年 · Western Year: AD 1382
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Family

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Child of Liu Han (劉闬)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Child of Lady Zhang (張氏)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological

Career and standing

Label: vice commissioner of the Guangdong surveillance commission / 廣東按察司僉事 · Action: appointed · Jurisdiction: Qiongzhou / 瓊州
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Label: river berth officer at Dongguan / 東莞河泊使 · Action: demoted-to
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Places and affiliations

Label: Ming / 明 · Relation: served
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Place: Anfu / 安福
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Learning and skills

Credential: worthy and good examination / 賢良 · Action: earned
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Events and relationships

Kind: captivity · Role: captive · Action: chained-by-rebels
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Kind: burial · Role: deceased · Other Person Id: Zhang Shixiang (張仕祥) · Place: Yaji / 鴉磯
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: incorruptible and benevolent · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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History of Ming, Chapter 140Volume 140 Biographies 28: Wei Guan, Tao Houzhong, Liu Shihuan, Wang Zongxian, Lu Wensui, Wang Guan, Dao Tong, Lu Xi, Qing Wensheng · 8 passages

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劉仕貆 Liu Shihuan

劉仕貆，字伯貞，安福人。 Liu Shihuan, whose style was Bozhen, came from Anfu.

仕貆少受父學。 Shihuan studied under his father from boyhood.

賊械仕貆，久之得釋。 The rebels put him in chains, but he was eventually released.

洪武初，以供役為安福丞張禧所辱，仕貆憤，益力學。 Early in the Hongwu reign, while performing corvée labor he was humiliated by Zhang Xi, assistant magistrate of Anfu; stung by the insult, Shihuan threw himself even harder into his studies.

仕貆廉且惠，輕徭理枉，大得民和。 Shihuan was incorruptible and benevolent; he eased corvée burdens and redressed grievances, and won the people's deep trust.

辱仕貆者張禧，適調丞瓊山，以屬吏謁，大慚怖。 Zhang Xi, who had once humiliated him, happened to be transferred to assistant magistrate of Qiongshan and came to pay his respects as a subordinate; he was overcome with shame and fear.

仁貆待之與他吏等。 Shihuan treated him no differently from any other clerk.