刘平 / Liu Ping (Eastern Han official)

Overview

刘平 / Liu Ping is treated by the current wiki route as an Eastern Han official whose evidence now has two moralized governance layers. 《资治通鉴·汉纪》693丨叛出刘秀的彭宠，如何因背叛而亡？ shows a Liu Ping protecting his superior Sun Meng with his own body during Pang Meng’s rebellion, while Hanji 735 shows Liu Ping’s later Quanjiao governance producing voluntary trust signals.

Current Profile

Hanji 693 places Liu Ping inside a crisis of rebel violence. Pang Meng captures Pengcheng and wants to kill Chu commandery’s Sun Meng. Liu Ping lies over Sun Meng, weeps, asks to die in his place, receives seven wounds, and then gives Sun Meng blood from his own wounds when Sun Meng revives thirsty. The episode uses the scene to show loyalty as bodily substitution rather than verbal allegiance.

Hanji 735 gives the local-administration layer. Liu Ping governs Quanjiao in a way that leaves unusually strong civic trust signals: people voluntarily increase their reported property in order to pay more tax, lower their declared age so they can serve, and leave prisons nearly empty. Zhongli Yi and another official recommend him, and he is appointed as a Lang. The combined profile links personal loyalty under coercion with later benevolent administration that makes subjects voluntarily cooperate with government.

Key Characteristics

• Self-substituting subordinate who physically shields an endangered superior during rebellion.
• Loyalty exemplar whose wounds become evidence of commitment rather than just rhetoric.
• Local administrator remembered through voluntary tax and service behavior by the people under his rule.
• Low-coercion governor whose prisons are described as nearly empty.
• Beneficial official whose local record is legible enough to be recommended for central service.

Evidence

• Bodily protection: 《资治通鉴·汉纪》693丨叛出刘秀的彭宠，如何因背叛而亡？ says Liu Ping covers Sun Meng, asks to die in his place, and suffers seven wounds when Pang Meng threatens Sun Meng.
• Sustained loyalty after wounding: 《资治通鉴·汉纪》693丨叛出刘秀的彭宠，如何因背叛而亡？ says Liu Ping gives Sun Meng blood from his wounds after Sun Meng revives thirsty.
• Voluntary fiscal trust: Hanji 735 says Quanjiao locals voluntarily report more property so they can pay more tax under Liu Ping’s governance.
• Service willingness: Hanji 735 adds that people lower their declared ages to qualify for service.
• Low punishment signal: Hanji 735 describes his prisons as almost empty.
• Recommendation path: Hanji 735 links Liu Ping’s later appointment as Lang to recommendations including Zhongli Yi.

Qualifications

The page remains bounded to the listed source notes. The wiki currently keeps Hanji 693 and Hanji 735 under the existing LiuPingEasternHan route because both source notes concern an Eastern Han Liu Ping remembered through exemplary official conduct; if later evidence proves distinct biographies, the route should be split with stable semantic suffixes. Hanji 693 is a loyalty crisis scene and does not prove Liu Ping’s whole early career. Hanji 735’s reported popular behavior is best treated as a moralized historiographical signal of trust, not as audited administrative data.

What Changed

• Added Hanji 693 as a self-sacrificial loyalty layer around Pang Meng’s rebellion.
• Preserved Hanji 735 as the Quanjiao local-governance and central-recommendation layer.
• Reframed Liu Ping’s profile around exemplary conduct under both coercive danger and ordinary administration.

Relationships

• 庞萌 - rebel whose threat against Sun Meng creates Liu Ping’s protection scene.
• 忠诚连坐困境 - adjacent loyalty-risk concept, contrasted with Liu Ping’s voluntary bodily substitution.
• 宾客互报伦理 - neighboring moral pattern for reciprocal obligation and sacrifice.
• 钟离意 - recommender who helps bring Liu Ping’s local record to central attention.
• 仁厚地方治理 - concept Liu Ping illustrates through trust, low coercion, and almost empty prisons.
• 汉明帝 - ruler whose court receives Liu Ping through recommendation.
• 郭贺 - parallel local-governance exemplar publicly recognized in the same Yongping 3 source.