Liu Suiqing (劉遂清)

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Suiqing as a general and official. This record brings together 6 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 Suiqing	劉遂清	Liu Suiqing
Courtesy	Deyi	得一	Deyi
Personal name	Liu Suiqing	劉遂清	Liu Suiqing
Given	Suiqing	遂清	Suiqing

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

General
Official

Life and dates

Death

Place: courier station near Shangcai / 上蔡郵舍 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開運三年四月 · Western Year: AD 946
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 七年 · Western Year: AD 942
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Source Date: Text: 八年 · Western Year: AD 943
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Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 941
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Source Date: Text: 天成、長興中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 933
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Source Date: Text: 明宗即位 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 926
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Source Date: Text: 莊宗入汴 · Western Interval: Start: AD 923 · End: AD 926
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Source Date: Text: 開運三年四月 · Western Year: AD 946
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Source Date: Text: 開運二年 · Western Year: AD 945
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Source Date: Text: 高祖即位之二年 · Western Year: AD 937
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Family

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Child of Liu Qi (劉琪)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Child of Mother of Liu Suiqing (劉遂清母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
Kin of Zheng (鄩)
Kinship Term: nephew by marriage / brother's son / 猶子

Places and affiliations

Place: Beihai in Qingzhou / 青州北海
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: deeply filial · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 96Volume 96 Book of Later Jin 22: Biographies 11: Kong Chongbi, Chen Baoji, Wang Yu, Zhang Jizuo, Zhen Ruan, Hu Rao, Liu Suiqing, Fang Gao, Meng Chenghui, Liu Jixun, Zheng Shouyi, Cheng Xun, Li Yu, Zheng Xuansu, Ma Zhongji, Chen Xuan · 6 passages

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劉遂清，字得一，青州北海人，梁開封尹鄩之猶子也。 Liu Suiqing, styled Deyi, was from Beihai in Qingzhou and was a nephew by marriage of Zheng, Liang's chief minister of Kaifeng.

遂清少敏惠，初仕梁為保鑾軍使，歷內諸司使，莊宗入汴，不改其職。 Suiqing was clever from youth. He first served Liang as commissioner of the palace guard, then held a series of posts as commissioner of the inner bureaus; when Zhuangzong entered Bian his offices were left unchanged.

逾歲，以中山王都有不臣之跡，除遂清為易州刺史，俾遏其寇沖，既至郡，大有禦侮之略，境內賴焉。 A year later, when Wang Du of Zhongshan showed signs of rebellion, Suiqing was appointed prefect of Yi to block his raids. On reaching the prefecture he devised strong defenses, and the region came to rely on him.

〈（《通鑒潞王紀》：帝之起鳳翔也，召興州刺史劉遂清，遲疑不至。 (Comprehensive Mirror, Annals of the Prince of Lu: When the emperor rose at Fengxiang he summoned Liu Suiqing, prefect of Xing, but Suiqing hesitated and did not come.

遂清性至孝，牧淄川日，自北海迎其母赴郡，母既及境，遂清奔馳路側，控轡行數十里，父老觀者如堵，當時榮之。 Suiqing was deeply filial by nature. While governing Zichuan he went to Beihai to bring his mother to his post. When she reached the prefectural border he ran out to the road, took the reins of her carriage, and walked beside her for miles. The local elders lined the route, and contemporaries praised him for it.

遂清素不知書，但多計畫，判三司日，每給百官俸料，與判官議曰：「斯輩非盡有才能，多世祿之家，宜澄其汙而留其清者。」 Suiqing was barely literate but full of schemes. While in charge of the three bureaus, whenever salaries were issued he would tell his aide, "These men are not all capable—many come from hereditary salary families. We ought to sift out the corrupt and keep the honest."