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Liu Shizhi 劉師知

Died AD 568

Passages: 11
Chapters: 6
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Shizhi as a courtier, envoy, and official. This record brings together 11 passages from 6 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Liu Shizhi	劉師知	Liu Shizhi
Surname	Liu	劉	Liu
Personal name	Liu Shizhi	劉師知	Liu Shizhi
Personal	Liu Shizhi	劉師知	Liú Shīzhī
Personal name	Shizhi	師知
Given name	Shizhi	師知	Shizhi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · chenshu:004:s0096, chenshu:014:s0082, chenshu:020:s0026, chenshu:032:s0051
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · chenshu:007:s0053, chenshu:029:s0007

Roles

Courtier
Envoy
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: granted death in prison · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 其夜 · Western Year: AD 568
Explicit · chenshu:007:s0060
Manner: granted-death · Place: northern prison / 北獄
Explicit · chenshu:020:s0027
Manner: executed / 伏誅
Explicit · chenshu:032:s0053

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 光大二年十一月甲寅 · Western Year: AD 568
Explicit · chenshu:004:s0096
Source Date: Text: 其夜賜死 · Western Year: AD 568
Explicit · chenshu:007:s0060
Source Date: Text: 天嘉三年春 · Western Year: AD 562
Explicit · chenshu:014:s0082
Source Date: Text: 廢帝即位 · Western Interval: Start: AD 566 · End: AD 568
Explicit · chenshu:007:s0053
Source Date: Text: 廢帝朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 567 · End: AD 568
Explicit event contextual date · chenshu:032:s0051
Source Date: Text: 文帝崩後 · Western Year: AD 566
Explicit event contextual date · chenshu:020:s0026
Source Date: Text: 王僧辯幕府初建 · Western Interval: Start: AD 548 · End: AD 555
Explicit · chenshu:029:s0007

Career and standing

Label: Secretariat Attendant / 中書舍人 · Action: held
Explicit · chenshu:020:s0026
Label: granted death / 賜死 · Action: executed · Authority Person Id: Emperor Xuan (高宗)
Explicit · chenshu:007:s0060

Places and affiliations

Label: Chen / 陳 · Relation: served
Explicit · chenshu:004:s0096

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Emperor Xuan (高宗) · Provenance: Mode: allegation
Explicit · chenshu:007:s0054

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: agent · Action: attempted-to-exclude · Other Person Id: Chen Xu (陳頊)
Explicit · chenshu:004:s0096
Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Emperor Xuan (高宗)
Explicit · chenshu:007:s0054

References in the histories

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Book of Chen, Chapter 4Volume 4: Emperor Fei · 1 passage

太傅親承顧託，鎮守宮闈，遺誥綢繆，義深垣屏，而欑塗未御，翌日無淹，仍遣劉師知、殷不佞等顯言排斥。 The Grand Tutor had been entrusted in person to guard the palace; the late emperor's will bound him like a wall—yet the emperor never came to him on the first day of mourning, and on the very next day sent Liu Shizhi, Yin Buxin, and others to push him aside.

Book of Chen, Chapter 7Volume 7: Empresses and Consorts · 5 passages

時高宗與僕射到仲舉、舍人劉師知等並受遺輔政，師知與仲舉恆居禁中參決红事，而高宗為揚州刺史，與左右三百人入居尚書省。 At that time Emperor Xuan, with vice director Dao Zhongju, attendant Liu Shizhi, and others, shared the testament and governed; Shizhi and Zhongju lived in the inner palace and decided affairs of state, while Emperor Xuan was inspector of Yangzhou and lodged in the masters of writing office with three hundred men.

師知見高宗權重，陰忌之，乃矯队謂高宗曰：「今四方無事，王可還東府，經理州務。」 Shizhi saw Emperor Xuan's power growing and secretly feared him; he forged an order saying, "The realm is at peace; you may return to the Eastern Mansion and mind the prefecture."

高宗乃稱疾，召師知留之與語，使毛喜先入言之於后。 Emperor Xuan then feigned illness, summoned Shizhi and kept him talking, and sent Mao Xi ahead to speak to the empress.

喜又言於廢帝，帝曰：「此自師知等所為，非朕意也。」 Xi also spoke to the Deposed Emperor, who said, "That was Shizhi and his party—not my wish."

喜出以報高宗，高宗因囚師知，自入見后及帝，極陳師知之短，仍自草敕請畫，以師知付廷尉治罪。 Xi came out and told Emperor Xuan, who then seized Shizhi, went in to see the empress and the emperor, laid out Shizhi's crimes, drafted the edict himself, and sent Shizhi to the court of trials.

Book of Chen, Chapter 14Volume 14: Chen Chang; Chen Tanlang · 1 passage

乃遣兼郎中令隨聘使江德藻、劉師知迎曇朗喪柩，以三年春至都。 He sent the acting director of the palace secretariat, Jiang Dezao and Liu Shizhi, with the embassy to bring Tanlang's coffin home; it reached the capital in spring of year three.

Book of Chen, Chapter 20Volume 20: Dao Zhongju; Han Zigao; Hua Jiao · 2 passages

及文帝崩，高宗受遺詔為尚書令入輔，仲舉與左丞王暹、中書舍人劉師知、殷不佞等，以朝望有歸，乃遣不佞矯宣旨遣高宗還東府。 When Emperor Wen died, Emperor Xuan took the testament as director of the masters of writing and entered to govern. Zhongju, with the left assistant Wang Xian and secretariat attendants Liu Shizhi and Yin Bujiu, judged where the court’s hopes lay and sent Bujiu to forge an edict ordering Emperor Xuan back to the Eastern Mansion.

事發，師知下北獄賜死，暹、不佞並付治，乃以仲舉為貞毅將軍、金紫光祿大夫。 When the plot came out, Shizhi was sent to the northern prison and granted death. Xian and Bujiu were handed over for trial. Zhongju was reduced to steadfast-resolution general and grandee with the gold seal and purple ribbon.

Book of Chen, Chapter 29Volume 29: Zong Yuanrao; Sima Shen; Mao Xi; Cai Zheng · 1 passage

及司徒王僧辯幕府初建，元饒與沛國劉師知同為主簿。 When Minister of Works Wang Sengbian first established his headquarters, Yuanrao and Liu Shizhi of Pei both served as chief clerks.

Book of Chen, Chapter 32Volume 32: Filial Piety · 1 passage

不佞素以名節自立，又受委東宮，乃與僕射到仲舉、中書舍人劉師知、尚書右丞王暹等，謀矯詔出高宗。 Buning had always stood on his reputation for integrity and had again been entrusted by the eastern palace. He therefore joined vice director Dao Zhongju, Secretariat attendant Liu Shizhi, right vice director Wang Xian, and others in plotting to forge an edict removing Emperor Xuan.