Liu Xinyuan (calligrapher)
Liu Xinyuan | |
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劉心源 | |
Liu Xinyuan in 1914 | |
| Born | 1848 Tengyunzhou, Longkou, Jiayu County, Hubei (now Longkou Town, Honghu) |
| Died | 18 October 1915 (aged 66–67) Jiayu County, Hubei Province, China |
Liu Xinyuan (劉心源; 1848 – 1915),[1] courtesy name Ya Fu (亚甫), was a calligrapher, epigrapher, numismatist, writer and official in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.
Biography
He was a native of Tengyunzhou, Longkou, Jiayu County, Hubei Province (now Longkou Town, Honghu).[2] He participated in the provincial examination and became the sixty-seventh juren among the students with government stipends.[3]
In the second year of the Guangxu era (1876), he was the 37th in the second class of the imperial examination, thus becoming a jinshi, and the 16th in the first class of the court examination. He was appointed as a probationary official in the Hanlin Academy. In the eighth year of the Guangxu era (1882), at the invitation of Li Hanzhang (李瀚章), the Governor-General of Huguang, and Peng Zuxian, the Governor of Hubei, he compiled the General History of Hubei (湖北通志).[3]
He then served in a number of official posts including prefect of Kuizhou Prefecture (夔州府) in Sichuan, prefect of Chengdu Prefecture, and Provincial Surveillance Commissioner of Guangxi (广西按察使). After the Wuchang Uprising broke out he became an advisor of Li Yuanhong and helped stabilize the Hubei Military Government (中華民國軍政府鄂軍都督府). After the establishment of the Republic of China he served in a number of official posts including Civil Governor of Hubei and Governor of Hunan.[4] He died in Jiayu on 18 October 1915.[5]
References
- ^ 生年据刘心源在《刘氏宗谱》中的自述。《约法会议记录》作年六十八岁，按1915年68岁，则生于约1847年，与此差别不大。
- ^ 湖北档案 Issues 99-112 (in Chinese). 湖北档案编辑部. 2001. p. 42. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
- ^ a b 刘心源主修，刘氏宗谱，丙午年务本堂刻本，1906年
- ^ "洪湖史海先贤之金石学家刘心源，洪湖网，2011-11-8" (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 6 January 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
- ^ "贊助共和人又弱一個" (in Chinese). 26 October 1915. Retrieved 22 November 2025.