Sui and Tang · Scholar and Writer

Liu Bian 柳抃

Attested AD 605 - AD 618

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Liu Bian was a scholar and Writer.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 605 to AD 618 賾與...相善
Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 77, passage 166

Works and attributed material

encomium for Xu Ze 贊
Relation Author
Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 208
Encomium · Author · With Xu Ze (徐則)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passages 208-218

Events and relationships

Relation Friend of · Person Cui Ze (崔賾)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 77, passage 166

References in the histories

Book of Sui, Chapter 77Volume 77 Biographies 42: Recluses · 2 passages

賾與洛陽元善、河東柳抃、太原王劭、吳興姚察、琅邪諸葛潁、信都劉焯、河間劉炫相善，每因休假，清談竟日。 Ze was close friends with Yuan Shan of Luoyang, Liu Bian of Hedong, Wang Shao of Taiyuan, Yao Cha of Wuxing, Zhuge Ying of Langya, Liu Chuo of Xindu, and Liu Xuan of Hejian; on holidays they would talk together from morning till night.

晉王聞而益異之，賵物千段，遣畫工圖其狀貌，令柳抃為之贊曰：「可道非道，常道無名。 The Prince of Jin heard this and was all the more astonished; he sent a thousand lengths of goods as funeral gifts, had painters depict his likeness, and ordered Liu Bian to compose an encomium that began, "The Way that can be spoken is not the eternal Way; the eternal Way has no name.