entity Updated 2026-08-23 Tags: Person, Western-Han, Chu-Han

刘盈 / Liu Ying

刘盈 / Liu Ying enters the wiki through Hanji 152 part 1 as 刘邦’s son in the flight after the 彭城之战. The episode does not develop his later imperial biography; it uses him as part of the escape scene that shows how dangerous the rout became.

In the source’s account, Liu Bang encounters Liu Ying and 鲁元公主 while fleeing with Chu pursuers behind him. Liu Bang takes them onto the cart, then pushes them off when he thinks the extra weight slows the escape. Liu Ying’s function in this source is therefore not succession politics but the extremity of battlefield collapse.

Hanji 152 part 2 continues the same scene by foregrounding 夏侯婴. Xiahou Ying repeatedly retrieves Liu Ying and Princess Lu Yuan after Liu Bang pushes them off the cart, and the episode says Liu Ying later remembers the rescue after becoming emperor. The source therefore extends Liu Ying from a marker of panic into part of Xiahou Ying’s later trust and honor story.

Hanji 155-1 shifts Liu Ying from battlefield-vulnerability marker into succession status. After 刘邦 returns from 荥阳 to 栎阳, he makes Liu Ying crown prince and issues a general amnesty.

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