Liú Fú 劉黻 (1217–1276), zì Shēngbó 升伯, sobriquet Zhìwēng 質翁 (also styled Méngchuān 蒙川 by his followers), posthumous title Zhōngsù 忠肅, was a native of Lèqīng 樂清 in Wēnzhōu 溫州 (modern Zhèjiāng). He studied for over twenty years at a mountain monastery in the Yàndàng range, where he came to revere Chén Zǐ’áng 陳子昂 and built his study-pavilion the Cháoyánggé 朝陽閣. He entered the Imperial Academy (Tàixué 太學) at twenty-four. In Bǎoyòu 6 (1258) he was the leader of an Academy student protest against Chancellor Dīng Dàquán 丁大全, prostrating at the palace gate and submitting a memorial calling for the chancellor’s dismissal; for this he was banished and consigned to Nán’ānjūn 南安軍, returning when Dàquán fell. In the Rénxū (1262) palace examination he again, in his answer, contradicted Jiǎ Sìdào 賈似道, and lost the top placement he had been expected to receive.
He served thereafter as Sub-Editor of the Zhāoqìngjūn 昭慶軍 Bureau, in teaching office, as Censor, and rose to Lìbù shàngshū 吏部尚書 (Vice-Minister of Personnel). He withdrew from office on his mother’s death and did not return. After the fall of Hángzhōu in 1276 the loyalist remnant under Lù Xiùfū 陸秀夫 and Wén Tiānxiáng 文天祥 conscripted him to accompany the two princes (Zhào Shì 趙昰 and Zhào Bǐng 趙昺) by sea; he was offered, and declined, the seal of Chancellor. He died of illness at Luófúshān 羅浮山 in Guǎngdōng later that year. His widow Lady Lín 林氏 led the entire household into the sea — a notable jiārén jiùyì 一家就義 incident in the Sòng-loyalist memorial tradition. He is recorded in the Sòngshǐ Zhōngyì 忠義 chapter (j. 405).
His principal works (Jiànpō zòudú 諫坡奏牘, Wéiyuán zhìgǎo 薇垣制藁, Jīngwéi nàxiàn 經帷納獻) were carried with him on the sea-passage and lost. His surviving collected works, the Méngchuān yígǎo 蒙川遺稿 in four juàn (KR4d0355), were reassembled in the early Yuán Dàdé 大德 era from fragments and remembered pieces by his younger brother 劉應奎.