Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Courtier

Liu Fang 劉昉

Attested AD 580

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Liu Fang was a Courtier.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 580 及大漸
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 9, passage 97

Events and relationships

Forged edict
AD 580 及大漸 · Political · Conspirator · With Emperor Wen of Sui (隋文帝)
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 9, passage 97

References in the histories

Book of Zhou, Chapter 9Volume 9 Biographies 1: Empresses · 2 passages

及大漸，劉昉、鄭譯等因矯詔以后父受遺輔政。 When he was near death, Liu Fang, Zheng Yi, and others used a forged edict so that the empress's father received the dying charge and assisted in government.

后初雖不預謀，然以嗣主幼沖，恐權在他族，不利於己，聞昉、譯已行此詔，心甚悅之。 The empress at first had not taken part in the plot, but because the successor ruler was young and she feared power would fall to another clan to her own detriment, when she heard Liu Fang and Zheng Yi had already carried out this edict her heart was greatly pleased.