Liu Ping 留平

Liu Ping appears in the Biographies of the Three Successor Rulers in Records of Wu 3, in the Biographies of Wang, Lou, He, Wei and Hua in Records of Wu 20, and in the account of Lu Kai in Records of Wu 16. Chen Shou's main text does not record his courtesy name or origin. Records, Wu 3 §44–45Records, Wu 16 §33Records, Wu 20 §4

In the 10th month, in winter, of the 6th year of Yong'an (263), Shu reported that it was under attack by Wei. On the day jiashen, Sun Xiu had the Grand General Ding Feng lead the armies toward Shouchun in Wei, sent the general Liu Ping separately to Shi Ji in Nan Commandery to discuss where to direct the army, and had the generals Ding Feng (丁封) and Sun Yi go to Mianzhong. All this was to rescue Shu, but it was called off when word arrived that Liu Shan, the ruler of Shu, had surrendered to Wei. Records, Wu 3 §43–44

In the 2nd month, in spring, of the 7th year of Yong'an (264), the General Who Guards the Army Lu Kang, the General Who Pacifies the Army Bu Xie, the General Who Conquers the West Liu Ping and the Administrator of Jianping Sheng Man led troops to besiege Luo Xian, the commander guarding Badong for Shu. Wei gave the general Hu Lie twenty thousand infantry and cavalry to invade Xiling and rescue Luo Xian, and Lu Kang and the others withdrew their troops. Records, Wu 3 §45–46

In the 2nd year of Ganlu (266), under Sun Hao, when Ding Zhong returned from an embassy to Jin, Sun Hao held a great assembly of his ministers, and the Regular Attendant Wang Fan, very drunk, fell prostrate. Sun Hao, suspicious and displeased, had him taken out and then called him back in; when Wang Fan, still not sober, bore himself with composure, Sun Hao flew into a rage and shouted to his attendants to behead him below the hall. The General of the Guards Teng Mu and the General Who Conquers the West Liu Ping pleaded for his life but could not obtain it. Records, Wu 20 §3–4

At the end of the Biography of Lu Kai, Chen Shou records, introducing it with 'some say,' that in the 12th month of the 1st year of Baoding (266) Lu Kai plotted with the Grand Marshal Ding Feng and the Imperial Counsellor Ding Gu to depose Sun Hao while he was visiting the ancestral temple and to set up a son of Sun Xiu. Because the General of the Left Liu Ping was then to lead troops in the vanguard, they spoke to Liu Ping in secret, but Liu Ping refused, would not consent and swore not to divulge it, and for this reason the plot came to nothing. Records, Wu 16 §32–33

Liu Ping's name appears in Chen Shou's main text only up to this point; his later career and death are not recorded. The assessments of Volumes 3, 16 and 20 also say nothing about him in particular. Records, Wu 3 §88Records, Wu 16 §57Records, Wu 20 §84