He was Liu Chen, the King of the Northern Lands, the grandson of Liu Bei, the Emperor Zhaolie of the Shu Han Dynasty, and the fifth son of Liu Chan, the lord of the Shu Han Dynasty.
In the winter of the sixth year of Jing Yao (263), Deng Aibing was under the gate of Chengdu, Liu Chan accepted Tan Zhou's suggestion to prepare to surrender to Deng Ai, Liu Chen said angrily: "The country has reached the point of exhaustion, there will naturally be a disaster of national subjugation, at this time it should be the father and son, the monarch and the monarch to make a final effort, for the Shu Han Jiangshan, so that you can also go to see the former emperor!" Liu Chan did not listen to him and still surrendered to Deng Ai. Liu Chen felt very bitter and angry about the demise of the country, so Liu Chen came to the Zhaolie Temple dedicated to Liu Bei and wept bitterly, and then killed his wife and son first, and then committed suicide.
In Luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Liu Chen appeared in "Weeping Ancestral Temple, a King Dies filial piety and enters Xichuan Ershi Zhenggong", is Liu Chan's fifth son, intelligent and wise since childhood, heroic and insensitive, after dissuading Liu Chan from surrendering, he was indignant and indignant, first killed his wife and children, and later the Zhaolie Temple wept to worship the ancestors and committed suicide at the Zhaolie Temple.
Kong Ming's sons Zhan and Sun Shang were killed in battle, Zhang Fei's grandson Zun, Zhao Yun's second son Guangye was killed in battle, the King of Beiping wept at the Zhaolie Temple, killing his wife first was suicide, Wei Yishu Palace people gave soldiers, Li Zhaoyi did not humiliate himself. Zen is not particularly ashamed of the soldiers, nor is it ashamed of the woman.
In the Wuhou Ancestral Hall in Chengdu, Sichuan, there is a statue of Liu Chen, and the lower sandalwood is engraved with the life of Liu Chen to commemorate Liu Chen's noble sentiment of committing suicide and martyrdom and preferring to die.