刘嘉 / Liu Jia, Shuaili Hou

Overview

刘嘉 / Liu Jia enters the wiki through Hanji 629 as a distant Liu-family relative of 安众侯刘崇 who survives the failed rising by surrendering and presenting a loyalist petition to 王莽.

Current Profile

Liu Jia is the beneficiary side of Zhang Song’s petitionary strategy. After Liu Chong’s attack fails, Liu Jia fears implication, submits himself to court, and receives pardon. 张竦 writes a memorial in his name praising Wang Mang and denouncing Liu Chong.

The result is reward rather than punishment. Wang Mang makes Liu Jia Shuaili Hou and makes his seven sons Guannei marquises. In the source’s political reading, Liu Jia shows how some Liu relatives survive Wang Mang’s advance by publicly separating themselves from anti-usurpation resistance.

Key Characteristics

• Distant Liu-family relative connected to Liu Chong’s failed rebellion.
• Responds to exposure through self-reporting and loyalist denunciation.
• Benefits from Zhang Song’s petition language.
• Receives Shuaili Hou title and rewards for his sons.
• Illustrates Liu-clan fragmentation under Wang Mang’s pressure.

Evidence

• Fear and surrender: Hanji 629 says Liu Jia and Zhang Song surrender because they fear implication after Liu Chong’s failure.
• Petitionary denunciation: Hanji 629 says Zhang Song writes a memorial in Liu Jia’s orbit praising Wang Mang and condemning Liu Chong.
• Reward: Hanji 629 says Wang Mang titles Liu Jia Shuaili Hou and makes his seven sons Guannei marquises.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 629. It does not reconstruct Liu Jia’s full genealogy, prior title status, or later career. It is deliberately disambiguated from 刘贾, the Chu-Han and early Western Han figure, and 汉中王刘嘉 of the Guangwu-era Hanzhong field.

What Changed

• Created from Hanji 629 as a Liu-family survivor who gains reward by publicly separating from Liu Chong’s rebellion.

Relationships

• 安众侯刘崇 - distant relative whose rebellion creates Liu Jia’s political exposure.
• 张竦 - petition writer whose language secures Liu Jia’s reward.
• 王莽 - powerholder who rewards Liu Jia’s denunciatory loyalty.
• 西汉 - dynastic family context that makes Liu Jia’s denunciation politically meaningful.
• 巧奏取封式忠诚信号 - concept relationship because Liu Jia is the reward recipient.