Is Liu Bei a descendant of Liu Bang? You may see that they are all surnamed Liu and think that Liu Bei is a descendant of Liu Bang. Liu Bang was born more than 400 years earlier than Liu Bei, who was really active in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. According to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei was originally a descendant of Liu Sheng, the king of Zhongshan. So what is the relationship between Liu Sheng and Liu Bang? Let's give you a detailed introduction. In fact, it may be difficult to tell where Liu Bei's roots are. However, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the governors were all independent, and everyone still wanted to work for the Han Dynasty, so Liu Bei's identity could attract others.

Since Liu Bei claimed to be a descendant of Liu Sheng, the king of Zhongshan in the Western Han Dynasty, who is this Liu Sheng? According to records, Liu Sheng is the son of Liu Qi, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, and the half-brother of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty. In other words, Liu Sheng and Emperor Wu were contemporaries. But Liu Sheng has never been an emperor, because Liu Qi passed the throne to Liu Che, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty. Everyone should be familiar with Liu Che, the emperor of the Han Dynasty. He was regarded as the most powerful and longest-serving emperor in the Han Dynasty, so Liu Sheng was much weaker than him. However, if you look at it this way, you can't say that Liu Bei and Liu Bang are not related by blood. If Liu Bei is a descendant of Liu Sheng, he must be a relative.

However, Liu Sheng was born more than 300 years before Liu Bei, and it is estimated that their blood relationship has been diluted to negligible. Moreover, the blood relationship between the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty has been broken, and it is even more impossible to ask whether Liu Bei and Liu Xiu will have any relationship. Otherwise, why didn't Liu Bei pick someone close to him and say he was his descendant? But he chose a Western Han Dynasty that had been dead for hundreds of years. Of course, even if it is diluted a lot, it will be regarded as a noble in the Han Dynasty. Therefore, Liu Bei may not be lying. After all, even if you are the son of the emperor, but the throne has not been passed to you, your status is still quite poor.

Moreover, according to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei is a descendant of the imperial clan of the Han Dynasty and Liu Sheng, the son of Emperor Jing of Han Dynasty, and Liu Sheng is the grandson of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, that is, the great-grandson of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, so Liu Bei is a descendant of Liu Bang.

Liu Bei's father, Rickas, recorded little about him in history, and hardly recorded his life story, only knowing that he died very early. Liu Bei lived with his mother since childhood, weaving straw sandals for a living and living a very hard life.