Reading "Han Shu" records Han the original journal of Emperor Gaozu . You often see others calling him Liu Bang, who has not yet made his fortune, as Liu Ji. According to the records of the "Mandarin Dictionary" and "Zuo Zhuan", "Meng, Zhong, Shu, and Ji are the words of brothers and sisters, the elders and young." At the same time, Bo, Zhong, Shu, and Ji also refer to the order of brothers and young. The dictionary explains it as: "The order of brothers is: the eldest brother is Bo, the second is Zhong, and the second is Shu, and the youngest is Ji." For example, the hero of the Three Kingdoms, Sun Jian, has four sons: the eldest son is Sun Ce, the courtesy name Bofu; the second son is Sun Quan, the courtesy name Zhongmou; the third son is Sun Yi, the courtesy name is Shubi; the fourth son is Sun Kuang, the courtesy name is Ji Zuo. For example, Emperor Guangwu, Emperor Guangwu, ranked third, with his courtesy name Wenshu; his second brother Liu Zhong; his eldest brother Liu Yan, whose courtesy name was Bosheng. The above two examples are typical representatives of the characters Bo, Zhong, Shu and Ji. Obviously, Liu Bang also has a third brother named Uncle Liu. What is confusing is that the Book of Han clearly records the deeds of Liu Bang's eldest brother Liu Bo and second brother Liu Zhong, but does not explain the whereabouts of Liu Shu. In fact, Liu Bang is not the youngest in the Liu family. He also has a half-brother, which is Liu Jiao .
Liu Jiao is Liu Bang's half-brother. He has loved studying since he was a child. It is in sharp contrast to his second brother Liu Zhong likes Jiarong's career and Liu Bang likes to wander and make friends. According to historical records, Liu Jiao "when he was young, he received poems with Lu Musheng, Bai Sheng and Shen Gong at Fuqiubo ." When Yan Shigu made an annotation for "Book of Han", he said that Fuqiubo was a great scholar in the Qin Dynasty and had received his career from Sun Qing. Sun Qing’s surname is Xun’s name, which is the well-known Xunzi in the Warring States Period. Sima Qian records his life in " Records of the Grand Historian: Biography of Mencius and Xunqing ". It is worth noting that The representative figures of the Legal Han Fei and Li Si are all his disciples. What is even more incredible is that after Xunzi traveled to , Qin , he accurately predicted that Qin would unify the world, but because of the harsh usage, the country's destiny would not last long. With this inheritance of clothing and fences, Liu Jiao's cultural level is undoubtedly the highest among the Liu Bang brothers.
Liu Jiao
After Liu Bang's rebellion , Liu Jiao followed him all the way. His favor was completely comparable to that of Liu Bang's close friend and was later named King Yan Lu Wan. When the world was settled, Liu Bang felt that the children of the Liu clan were too young, so he appointed Liu Jiao as King of Chu, controlled the vast territory of Xue County, Donghai, and 36 counties in Pengcheng, and lived directly next to the king of Huainan. Of course, Liu Jiao’s biggest task is to monitor Wang Yingbu, Huainan. Because he was worried that the scholar Liu Jiao was too weak and afraid that Ying Bu would not be able to resist the matter, he also named the Liu Jia of the same clan as Jingwang . Liu Jia's fate was very miserable. After the King of Huainan was launched, he was suddenly attacked and killed by him, and he did not even leave his descendants. His fief was later taken over by Liu Bang's second brother Liu Zhong's son Liu Bi . Liu Bi's biggest deed was that he and Liu Jiaotong-san King Chu Liu Wu launched the Seven Kingdoms .
