trad kingdom simp death_date wg pinyin title zi birth_date article_title name
劉劭 cao wei 刘劭 -lrb- unknown -rrb- liu shao líu shào official kongcai -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- unknown -rrb- liu shao -lrb- three kingdoms -rrb-
 liu shao
liu shao -lrb- three kingdoms -rrb-

liu shao , courtesy name kongcai -lrb- 孔才 -rrb- , was an official of the state of cao wei during the three kingdoms period .
he often provided advice to the emperor cao rui , and was praised by cao rui for his good advice , even though cao rui did not frequently actually act on the advice .
he also wrote poems to try to discourage cao rui from military and palace-building projects .
when the rival state eastern wu 's emperor sun quan attacked hefei in 234 , according to `` records of the three kingdoms '' , it was at liu shao 's suggestion that cao rui sent his forces to try to cut off sun quan 's supply route , rather than engage sun quan directly , a strategy that forced sun quan to withdraw .
-lrb- however , according to sima guang 's `` zizhi tongjian '' , it was tian yu who offered this advice , not liu shao . -rrb-
liu shao was also the author of the `` people records '' -lrb- 人物志 -rrb- , an early chinese treatise on cadres evaluation .
