Liú Chéng 劉承 (fl. ca. 1265–1273)
A late-Southern-Sòng follower of Zhēn Déxiù 真德秀 (1178–1235), based at the xué 學 (state school) under Zhēn Déxiù’s last governorship. Otherwise unfortunately attested. CBDB id 51714.
He is the editor of KR1h0024 Sìshū jíbiān 四書集編. After Zhēn Déxiù’s death in 1235, only the Dàxué (1 juàn) and Zhōngyōng (1 juàn) sections of his projected Sìshū jíbiān were complete. Zhēn’s son Zhēn Zhìdào 真志道 noted in his preface that for the Lúnyǔ and Mèngzǐ portions only marginal notes (diǎnjiào 點校) survived, not finished compilations. In Xiánchún 9 (1273), Liú Chéng — at the urging of the xuézhèng 學正 Liú Pǔxī 劉樸谿 — undertook to complete the work. He drew on three sources: Zhēn Déxiù’s surviving Lúnyǔ and Mèngzǐ marginal notes; the parallel Lúnyǔ and Mèngzǐ discussions in Zhēn Déxiù’s Dúshū jì 讀書記; and Zhēn’s Wénjí yǎnyì 文集衍義 and other writings. The work took ten months: five to compile, five to cut blocks. Liú Chéng’s role is therefore that of a posthumous biānjí 編輯 (compiler-editor) rather than original author.
The catalog meta annotates Liú Chéng’s function as 輯 (“compiled”), exactly recording the Sìkù tíyào’s reconstruction.