Overview
Liu Sixiang was a Soldier.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Death
Attested activity
References in the histories
No matching passages.
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 65Volume 65: Hereditary House of Southern Han · 6 passages
洪熙、洪杲、洪昌陰遣陳道庠養勇士劉思潮、譚令禋、林少強、少良、何昌廷等，習為角觝以獻玢。
Hongxi, Honggao, and Hongchang secretly had Chen Daoxiang train braves — Liu Sixiang, Tan Lingyin, Lin Shaoqiang, Shaoliang, He Changting, and others — in wrestling and present them to Bin.
玢宴長春宮以閱之，玢醉起，道庠與思潮等隨至寢門拉殺之，盡殺其左右。
Bin feasted at Changchun Palace to watch them perform. When Bin rose drunk, Daoxiang and Sixiang followed him to the bedchamber door, seized and killed him, and killed all his attendants.
既弒玢，遂自立，改元曰應乾，以洪昌為兵馬元帥，知政事，洪杲副元帥，劉思潮等封功臣。
After murdering Bin, he established himself, changed the era name to Yingqian, made Hongchang marshal of horse and foot and director of government affairs, Honggao deputy marshal, and enfeoffed Liu Sixiang and the others as merit ministers.
已而洪杲屢請討賊，陰勸晟誅思潮等以止外議。
Before long Honggao repeatedly requested campaigns against bandits and secretly urged Sheng to execute Sixiang and the others to silence outside criticism.
三年，殺其弟洪雅，又殺劉思潮等五人。
In the third year he killed his younger brother Hongya and also killed Liu Sixiang and five others.
思潮等死，陳道庠懼，不自安，其友鄧伸以荀悅《漢紀》遺之，道庠莫能曉，伸罵曰：「憝獠！
When Sixiang and the rest were dead, Chen Daoxiang was afraid and ill at ease. His friend Deng Shen gave him Xun Yue’s Hanji (Records of Han), but Daoxiang could not understand it. Shen cursed, "You brute!