Qin and Han · Scholar

Liu Fen 劉棻

Attested AD 9

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Liu Fen was a scholar.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 9 歆子棻復獻之
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 99, passages 196, 200

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Liu Xin (劉歆)
son 子
Directly stated · Book of Han 99, passages 196, 200

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 99Volume 87b: Yang Xiong 2 · 2 passages

王莽時，劉歆、甄豐皆為上公，莽既以符命自立，即位之後，欲絕其原以神前事，而豐子尋、歆子棻復獻之。 Under Wang Mang, Liu Xin and Zhen Feng stood among the highest nobles. Mang had risen on forged portents and, once enthroned, tried to bury their origin and cast the earlier events as divine, yet Zhen Feng's son Xun and Liu Xin's son Fen again submitted such documents.

閒請問其故，迺劉棻甞從雄學作竒字，雄不知情。 An inquiry found that Liu Xin's son Liu Fen had once studied rare characters with Yang Xiong, who knew nothing of the plot.