Liu Mao 劉瑁

Liu Mao was the son of Liu Yan, Governor of Yi Province. Liu Yan, courtesy name Junlang, was a man of Jingling County in Jiangxia Commandery and a descendant of Prince Gong of Lu of the Han. He went out as Army Supervisor Envoy concurrently holding the post of Governor of Yi Province and was enfeoffed as Marquis of Yangcheng. Records, Shu 1 §2 · 5

At the time when Liu Yan's ambitions were steadily growing and he had more than a thousand sets of carriages and fittings of the kind used by the Son of Heaven made, his sons Liu Fan as General of the Household of the Left, Liu Dan as Secretary Censor and Liu Zhang as Chief Commandant of Imperial Equipages were all in Chang'an attending Emperor Xian, and only his son Liu Mao, Major of a Separate Command, had always stayed with Liu Yan. Emperor Xian sent Liu Zhang to admonish Liu Yan, but Liu Yan kept Liu Zhang with him and did not send him back. Records, Shu 1 §9

Liu Yan and Liu Fan conspired with Ma Teng to make a surprise attack on Chang'an, but the plot leaked out; Liu Fan was soon put to death, and Liu Dan too was seized and executed. Liu Yan moved his seat of government to Chengdu, but grieving over the loss of his sons and shaken by the calamity of a fire from heaven that had burned his city, he died of a malignant ulcer that broke out on his back in the 1st year of Xingping (194). Zhao Wei and other senior officials of the province submitted a document putting Liu Zhang forward as Inspector of Yi Province, and an edict made Liu Zhang Army Supervisor Envoy concurrently holding the post of Governor of Yi Province. Records, Shu 1 §10–11

According to the Biography of Empress Mu, because Wu Yi's father had long been an old friend of Liu Yan, the whole family followed Liu Yan into Shu. Liu Yan, who harbored ambitions of his own, heard that a skilled physiognomist had read the features of Wu Yi's younger sister and said she would attain great nobility, and since he had his son Liu Mao with him at the time, he took her as Liu Mao's wife. Records, Shu 4 §9

Hearing that Lord Cao was campaigning against Jing Province and had already pacified Hanzhong, Liu Zhang sent Yin Pu of Henei to pay his respects to Lord Cao. Thereupon Liu Zhang received the additional title of General Who Spreads Awe, and his elder brother Liu Mao that of General Who Pacifies Bandits. Liu Mao died of madness. Chen Shou's main text does not state the year of his death. Records, Shu 1 §14

When Liu Mao died, his wife lived as a widow. After the First Sovereign had pacified Yi Province and Lady Sun had returned to Wu, his ministers urged the First Sovereign to take her, but he hesitated because he was of the same clan as Liu Mao. When Fa Zheng came forward and asked how, in terms of closeness of kinship, it compared with the relationship between Duke Wen of Jin and Ziyu, the First Sovereign took her as his consort, and in the 24th year of Jian'an (219) made her Queen of the King of Hanzhong. Records, Shu 4 §9–10

In his assessment in the Biographies of the Two Governors Liu, Chen Shou wrote that Liu Yan, heeding the words of Dong Fu, set his heart on the land of Yi, heeding the words of a physiognomist, sought a marriage with the Wu family, and hastily had the carriages and robes of the Son of Heaven made in an attempt to steal the sacred vessel of rule, and that his delusion was great. Records, Shu 1 §21