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Xi Zheng (died 278), courtesy name Lingxian, was a Chinese essayist, poet, and politician of the state of Shu Han during the late Three Kingdoms period of China. He also served as an official in the early years of the Jin dynasty.
Xi Zheng's foremost contribution to history was his composition of Liu Shan's surrender document to the Cao Wei general Deng Ai, which survives in the Records of the Three Kingdoms. Records of the Three Kingdoms, 33.900 Xi Zheng remained extremely loyal to Liu Shan, and was one of two former high-ranking Shu officials who abandoned their families and travelled with Liu Shan to Luoyang during Zhong Hui's Rebellion in 264. He was one of five former Shu officials to be enfeoffed as marquises by the Wei government. Records of the Three Kingdoms, 33.902
In Luoyang, Liu Shan relied on Xi Zheng in matters of deportment and propriety. According to Xi Zuochi's Han Jin Chunqiu, the Wei regent Sima Zhao once asked Liu Shan if he thought much about Shu, to which Liu Shan famously responded that he was too happy to think of Shu. Xi Zheng sought out Liu Shan and advised him that were he asked this again, the appropriate response was to lament how far he had been removed from his family tombs. Records of the Three Kingdoms, 33.902 n 1
In 273, Xi Zheng was appointed as the Administrator of Baxi Commandery (巴西郡), in present-day eastern Sichuan and northern Chongqing. This would have allowed him to return west in his old age. Of his works, only Liu Shan's surrender document to Deng Ai and one other essay survive, both carried in the base text of the Records of the Three Kingdoms.
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