刘备——蜀汉昭烈帝
一个织席贩夫之子，声称有远古帝王血统，花了三十年不断战败但从未彻底消失。当曹丕在220年夺取汉朝皇位时，刘备宣称汉朝在他身上延续，从成都统治了两年，然后试图为关羽复仇而摧毁了自己的军队。
劉備 · 昭烈帝
简体 刘备 · 昭烈帝
“Claimed the Han succession from a corner of Sichuan”
A mat-weaver's son who claimed distant imperial descent and spent thirty years losing battles without ever quite disappearing. When Cao Pi took the Han throne in 220 Liu Bei declared that the dynasty continued in him, ruled from Chengdu for two years, and destroyed his own army trying to avenge Guan Yu.
His reputation — the ruler who wins loyalty rather than battles — is largely the work of the fourteenth-century novel, but the loyalty was real enough: Zhuge Liang held the state together for a decade after his death on the strength of a deathbed conversation.
The Shu Han silk holds the empresses of both its reigns: Liu Bei's Empress Wu, and the two daughters of Zhang Fei who were married in turn to his son. When Chengdu fell in 263 the imperial family went north as prisoners.
The empress of this reign
Painted on silk in gemstone mineral pigments by Xiang Li.
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Written for this site to place Liu Bei's reign around the paintings. For the full biography, the dynastic histories and the scholarship behind them, start at Wikipedia.