When Liu Bei was a teenager, he worshipped Lu Zhi as a teacher, and later participated in activities such as suppressing the Yellow Scarf Uprising and punishing Dong Zhuo. Because of his limited strength, Liu Bei repeatedly failed in the process of warlord melee, so he attached himself to Gongsun Zan, Tao Qian, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Liu Biao and other governors.

However, because he always adhered to the code of conduct of serving people with virtue, he was respected by celebrities at home and abroad. Even Tao Qian and Liu Biao gave up letting their sons inherit the inheritance, but chose to hand over their territories Xuzhou and Jingzhou to Liu Bei. After unremitting efforts, after Battle of Red Cliffs, Liu Bei successively won Jingzhou and Yizhou, and established the Shu-Han regime.

Later, because Guan Yu was killed, Liu Bei refused to listen to the dissuasion of ministers and insisted on going to war with Wu. The result was defeated by Yiling, and finally Zhangwu died in Baidicheng in 223, at the age of 63. Posthumous title Zhaolie, in the Book of Jin and Biography of Wang Mi, called him a fierce ancestor and buried Hui Ling.

Liu Bei Hongyi is generous, understanding and persevering. He was entrusted to Zhuge Liang by the whole country before his death, and was praised by Chen Shou as "a trace of ancient and modern prosperity". Many literary works in later generations featured Liu Bei. Chengdu Wuhou Temple is a memorial to the Han Zhaolie Temple.

Liu Bei's evaluation is:

Zhu is a poor man who sells shoes and weaves mats. He can only be ambitious, make friends with heroes and hire thieves for his country. Compared with Cao Aman, he served as a courtier and sent soldiers, and his difficulties and loyalty were different. He is not only from China, but also a eunuch.

Two people, just or suddenly, have become friends with Liu, but they can collude with each other and swear to share life and death. This shows that Liu has his own dumping on the heroes in his works and is willing to use his life, which angered Du You. Readers are happy, and they can relieve the corrupt officials in the future and pay the lash of heroes.