Liu Xinyuan

Liu Xinyuan (; 1848 – 1915), courtesy name Ya Fu , was a calligrapher, epigrapher, numismatist, writer and official in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.

Biography He was a native of Tengyunzhou, Longkou, Jiayu County, Hubei Province (now Longkou Town, Honghu). He participated in the provincial examination and became the sixty-seventh juren among the students with government stipends.

In the second year of the Guangxu era (1876), he was the 37th in the second class of the imperial examination, thus becoming a jinshi, and the 16th in the first class of the court examination. He was appointed as a probationary official in the Hanlin Academy. In the eighth year of the Guangxu era (1882), at the invitation of Li Hanzhang (李瀚章), the Governor-General of Huguang, and Peng Zuxian, the Governor of Hubei, he compiled the General History of Hubei (湖北通志). He died in Jiayu on 18 October 1915.