Five Dynasties · Official and Statesman

Liu Xu 劉煦

Attested AD 933

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Liu Xu was an official and Statesman.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 933 長興四年十二月
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 44, passage 192

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Tang 後唐 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 44, passage 192

Works and attributed material

posthumous-title document 諡冊文
Relation Author
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 44, passage 194

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 44Volume 44 Book of Later Tang 20: Mingzong Annals 10 · 2 passages

是日發哀，百僚縞素於位，中書侍郎、平章事劉煦宣遺製，宋王從厚於柩前即皇帝位，服紀以日易月，一如舊制雲。 That day mourning was proclaimed; officials stood in white; Liu Xu, Vice Director and Grand Counsellor, read the testamentary edict; and Conghou took the throne before the bier, observing mourning by counting days as months according to custom.

宰臣劉煦撰諡冊文，宰臣李愚撰哀冊文，是月二十七日葬於徽陵。 Liu Xu composed the posthumous-title text and Li Yu the lamentation text; on the twenty-seventh of that month Mingzong was buried at Huiling.