Liú Bèi 劉備 (161–223 CE; zì Xuándé 玄德; posthumous temple name Zhāolièdì 昭烈帝; referred to as Xiānzhǔ 先主 in the Sānguó zhì) was the founding emperor of Shǔ-Hàn 蜀漢, one of the Three Kingdoms. He claimed descent from the imperial Hàn house through Prince Jīng 靖 of Zhōngshān 中山. After decades of itinerant military service under various warlords, he established a stable base in Jīng 荊 (modern Húnán/Húběi), then conquered Yì 益 (Sìchuān) in 214, and in 219 received the title King of Hànzhōng 漢中王. Following Cáo Pī’s 曹丕 formal deposition of the Hàn in 220, Liú Bèi proclaimed himself emperor of Hàn (221), insisting on dynastic continuity. He died in 223 after the disastrous defeat at Yílíng 夷陵. His biography is in Sānguó zhì 三國志, Shǔzhì 蜀志 2. His few surviving official writings are reconstructed in KR4b0024.