When Liu Bei was young, he became a teacher under Lu Zhi and later participated in suppressing the Yellow Scarf Uprising. 
Due to his limited strength, Liu Bei suffered repeated failures in the process of warlord battles, and successively relied on multiple feudal lords such as Gongsun Zan, Tao Qian, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and    

Liu Biao. However, due to their consistent adherence to the code of conduct of conquering others with virtue, they were respected by renowned scholars from all over the world.
Tao Qian and Liu Biao expressed their willingness to give up allowing their sons to inherit the foundation, and instead chose to give up their territories of Xuzhou and Jingzhou to Liu Bei for command.

 Through unremitting efforts, Liu Bei successively took Jingzhou and Yizhou after the Battle of Chibi, and established the Shu Han regime. 
 Later, due to Guan Yu being killed by Eastern Wu, Liu Bei refused to listen to the advice of his courtiers and insisted on launching a war against the state of Wu. 
 As a result, he was defeated by Yiling and eventually passed away in the third year of Zhangwu at the age of 63. He was posthumously named Emperor Zhaolie and buried in Huiling. 
 The Shu Han regime did not bestow a temple name on Liu Bei, and during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, Liu Yuan referred to his temple name as Liezu.