Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official

Liu Xuan 劉宣

Attested AD 280 - AD 304

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Liu Xuan was an official.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Shize	士則	Shize

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 280 to AD 304 劉宣，字士則
Strongly inferred · Book of Jin 101, passage 255

Career and standing

right-section commander 右部都督
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Jin 101, passage 263

Learning and skills

Teacher Person Id Sun Yan (孫炎) · Subjects 毛詩, 左氏傳
Directly stated · Book of Jin 101, passage 257

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker
Directly stated · Book of Jin 101, passage 260

Events and relationships

Planned Yuanhai kingship
Political · Strategist · With Liu Yuanhai (劉元海)
Directly stated · Book of Jin 101, passage 265
Relation Student of · Person Sun Yan (孫炎)
Directly stated · Book of Jin 101, passage 257

Assessments and attributes

Assessment like jade tablets; can pacify his native command · Mode quotation Speaker Emperor Wu of Jin (晉武帝)
Directly stated · Book of Jin 101, passage 262
quiet, plain-spoken, bookish, scrupulously clean
Character
Directly stated · Book of Jin 101, passage 256
Item crimson pennant and curved awning 赤幛曲蓋 · Relation Bestowed
Directly stated · Book of Jin 101, passage 263

References in the histories

Book of Jin, Chapter 101Volume 101 Records 1: Liu Yuanhai and Liu Xuan · 5 passages

劉宣，字士則。 Liu Xuan, courtesy name Shize.

炎每歎之曰：「宣若遇漢武，當逾于金日磾也。」 Sun Yan often sighed over him, saying, "Had Xuan met Emperor Wu of Han, he would have surpassed Jin Midi."

并州刺史王廣言之于武帝，帝召見，嘉其占對，因曰：「吾未見宣，謂廣言虛耳。 Bing governor Wang Guang praised him to Sima Yan, who interviewed Liu Xuan and said, "I thought Wang Guang exaggerated.

乃以宣為右部都督，特給赤幛曲蓋。 Sima Yan named him right-section commander with crimson pennant and curved awning.

元海即王位，宣之謀也，故特荷尊重，勳戚莫二，軍國內外靡不專之。 Liu Yuan's kingship was Liu Xuan's design, so he alone enjoyed supreme trust—no kinsman or minister rivalled his authority.