How many sons does Liu Sheng have? According to the "Chronicle of History", "Sheng is a good wine for people, and there are more than one hundred and twenty branches. The Book of Han also adopts the records of the "Records of History", saying that Liu Sheng, the king of Zhongshan Jing, had 120 sons.
In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", as soon as Liu Beifu appeared, he said very clearly, Bei was a relative of the Han Dynasty, after Liu Sheng, the King of Zhongshan Jing. He also ranked down with Emperor Xian, and according to the book, he was the emperor who was certified by the royal seal of Emperor Liu Xie. Of course, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a novel after all, many fictional components, according to the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms": "The first lord's surname is Liu, Zhenbei, the word Xuande, Zhuo County, Zhuo County, Han Jing Emperor Zhongshan Jing Wang Sheng also." Assuming that this statement is true, liu bei is really a relative of the Han Dynasty, then the generations in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms are not correct. In fact, Emperor Xian's father, Emperor Xianling of Han, Liu Hong, was a collateral heir apparent, and Liu Hong's great-grandfather was Liu Xiu's son, Liu Zhao, the Emperor of Hanzhang; His grandfather was Liu Shu , Marquis of Xieduting. His father was Liu Cang, the Marquis of Xieduting, and by this point of view, Emperor Xian was the eighth grandson of Liu Xiu, and Liu Xiu was the seventh grandson of Emperor Jing of Han, and Emperor Xiandi Liu Xie was actually the fourteenth grandson of Emperor Jing of Han. Liu Bei was not only not Emperor Xian's uncle, but also five generations younger than Emperor Xian. In fact, it is impossible to be called an uncle.
Liu Bei
So what is the origin of this Ancestor of Liu Bei, King Jing of Zhongshan?
Liu Sheng (165 BC – 113 BC), the ninth son of Liu Qi, emperor of the Han Dynasty, and half-brother of Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty, had reigned for 41 years by the time Liu Sheng died in 113 BC at the age of 53.
What did this Zhongshan Jing King do during these days? Everyone may not believe it, but King Jing is as diligent as his brother, but Liu Che is diligent in political affairs and Liu Sheng is diligent in creating people. Moreover, Liu Sheng is the person with the most sons in Chinese history and deserves to be the champion of fertility.
Liu Sheng
How many sons does Liu Sheng have? According to the "Chronicle of History", "Sheng is a good wine for people, and there are more than one hundred and twenty branches. The Book of Han also adopts the records of the "Records of History", saying that Liu Sheng, the king of Zhongshan Jing, had 120 sons. We know that Sima Qianzhi was rigorous in his studies and was a contemporary of Liu Sheng, and this number should not be wrong. According to Liu Sheng's marriage at the age of 13 until his death at the age of 53, in the time of these 40 years, he gave birth to 120 sons, an average of 3 sons a year, and it is rumored that King Wen of Zhou has a hundred sons, that is still just a rumor, and Liu Sheng is still incomparable. Kangxi, who had the largest number of children among the emperors, had 55 children, including 35 sons and 20 daughters, compared with Liu Sheng, he was also a small witch.
Liu Sheng had 20 sons who were enfeoffed, of which Liu Zhen was given the title of Lu Chenghou of Zhuo Commandery (涿州, in present-day Zhuozhou, Hebei), and combined with Liu Bei's range of activities during his appearance, Liu Bei was probably a descendant of Liu Zhen.
Although Liu Bei claimed to be a relative of the Han Dynasty, he did not enjoy the benefits of the imperial court, Liu Bei's grandfather once held up filial piety, the official to the Eastern County Fan Ling, his father Liu Hong died early, Liu Bei was poor since childhood, and made a living selling straw shoes. Counting the time, Liu Sheng, the King of Zhongshan Jing, died in 113 BC, and Liu Bei was born in 161 AD, which is more than 300 years.
Therefore, there is also a view that Liu Bei is not after King Jing of Zhongshan?
Maybe Liu Bei saw Cao Cao "blackmailing the Son of Heaven to order the princes", then he simply and vigorously promoted that I was a relative of the Han Dynasty, and I represented the Liu clan to compete with you Cao Cao or other princes to fight for the world, you must know that in ancient times, there was no more favorable identity than the royal family. Regardless of whether this identity is true or not, at least Emperor Xian of Han is willing to believe it, after all, he can win over a little more power against the powerful subjects, in fact, the collateral clans at that time, such as Liu Yu, Liu Xuan, Liu Biao, and Liu Yan (that is, Liu Bei later seized Yizhou's Father Liu Zhang), were more than Liu Bei's roots.
So why did Liu Bei choose to be the Queen of Zhongshan Jing? Perhaps it was because this ancestor was too fertile, gave birth to so many sons, after more than three hundred years of branches and leaves, there was no way to verify the query, after all, it was not the Kong family, and the genealogy was so clear. After so many years and so many generations, after saying that he was the King of Zhongshan Jing, he could not falsify at all.
In fact, at that time, some people suspected that when Zhuge Liang's Eastern Wu Tongue was fighting against Confucianism, a person on the seat asked in response: "Although Cao Cao threatened the Son of Heaven to order the princes, he was still after Cao San, the state of Xiangguo." Although Liu Yuzhou was of miao descent in the Jing Dynasty of Yun zhongshan, he had no way to examine it, and seeing that he was only the husband of a mat weaver, He Zu was fighting against Cao Cao! Kong Ming regarded it as Lu Jiye (Lu Xun's father).
Lu Xun
However, liu bei must not be impersonated, we know that in ancient times, frequent wars, material scarcity, it is indeed the royal family and nobles are easier to let the descendants reproduce, because many ordinary people either serve (the possibility of dying in war is high) or poor and unable to marry, thus breaking the generation. Wu Zetian once asked, "If all the Confucian clans are of the original Yan huang clan, then there are no people in the ancient world?" Confucians all say that the tianxia clan is a descendant of Yanhuang, were there no ordinary people in ancient times? Besides, Liu Bei's teacher was Lu Zhi, the great Confucian of the world, a famous general in the world, and his classmates were also Gongsun Zhan and the like, and in that era, he could worship under Lu Zhi's door, was he just a straw shoe seller?
What is the truth of history, after all, the age is too old, and it can only be commented on by future generations. Do you think Liu Bei is really a descendant of Liu Sheng? Rational comments are welcome.