When it comes to the Three Kingdoms, many people will say Wei Shu Wu.
The State of Wei was founded by Cao Cao's eldest son Cao Pi, the State of Wu was founded by Sun Ce's younger brother Sun Quan, and the State of Shu was founded by Liu Bei.
But the real Three Kingdoms were not Wei Shu Wu, but Wei, Han, and Wu.
In other words, the state established by Liu Bei was not "Shu", but "Han".
In 221 AD, Cao Pi established Wei in Han dynasty and the Han Dynasty collapsed. In order to continue the Han Dynasty, Liu Bei was proclaimed emperor in Chengdu, with the name of the country han and the historical title of Shu Han. Liu Bei himself claimed to be the queen of Zhongshan Jing, and the then Han Emperor Liu Xie (that is, the tianzi who Cao Cao held tianzi hostage to order the princes) called him emperor, so Liu Bei was naturally qualified to inherit the legal system of the Han Dynasty.
Zhou Shan said a few more words here, although Liu Xie was an emperor at that time, it was not good to let Cao Cao be held hostage, so he found a few of his own people and insisted on calling Liu Bei the emperor's uncle. In fact, whether his Uncle Liu Huang is still difficult to say, someone checks the family tree of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bei should be several generations lower than Liu Xie, if it is really divided according to the generation, Liu Bei should be called Liu Xie's grandfather. According to Liu Bei's self-described family lineage, we can know that Liu Bei's ancestor was the Han Jing Emperor, and Liu Bei happened to be the 18th grandson of the Han Jing Emperor, and it is very coincidental that the genealogy of the Han Xian Emperor can also be traced back to the Han Jing Emperor, who was after Liu Fa ( the 6th son of the Han Jing Emperor) the Prince of Changsha Ding, according to the genealogical calculations in the history books, the 6th grandson of the Han Jing Emperor was Liu Xiu, the Guangwu Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the Han Xian Emperor himself was the 7th grandson of Liu Xiu. In this way, Liu Bei is 5 generations lower than Emperor Xiandi of Han, and he is estimated to be able to call Emperor Xiandi of Han a grandfather, how can he still let Emperor Xian of Han call Liu Bei "Uncle Emperor"? Maybe looking at Liu Bei is bigger than himself (Liu Xie)?!
In fact, calling Shu Han is also closer to the truth than Shu.
But Liu Bei himself, as well as other courtiers of the Shu Han Dynasty, never considered himself to be "Shu Han", and the official title they used was always "Han".
For example, taking Zhuge Liang's famous passage before and after the "Table of Teachers" as an example, it is written that "the long of the Han Room can be counted and waited for the day", "the Han Room is revived, and it is still in the old capital", which proves that Zhuge Liang and others all think that they are Han.