Sources: Historical Records, Hanshu, Xunzi, Zhuangzi and Mencius.
Liu was the leader of the slave uprising during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In pre-Qin ancient books, they were falsely accused of "stealing feet" and "ignoring feet".
About 475 BC, at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Liu Xiatun (now Liu Tun, Puyang, Henan Province) in the northwest of Shandong led a slave uprising of 9,000 people, known as Liu Xiazhi (Xia Liu, place name; Foot, barefoot slaves) uprising.
The rebels fought in the Yellow River valley, and the vassal states were invincible. It dealt a heavy blow to the rule of slave owners and promoted the transformation of China's history from slavery to feudalism. The scale, duration, scope and influence of the uprising are unprecedented.
According to historical records, the slave uprising led by Liu was huge, and it grew to nearly ten thousand people in a short time. Historically known as the Wei Liu Uprising. He pursues an equal society in which "the tiller has his food, the weaver has his clothes, and he has no intention of harming each other".