Liu Yanzuo (Chinese: 劉延祚) was a son of the late Chinese Tang dynasty/early Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period warlord Liu Shouwen, the military governor (Jiedushi) of Yichang Circuit (義昌, headquartered in modern Cangzhou, Hebei), who tried to defend Yichang against the attacks of his uncle Liu Shouguang after his father was captured by his uncle in 909.
His grandfather Liu Rengong had taken over the nearby, larger Lulong Circuit (盧龍, headquartered in modern Beijing) in 895,[1] and had sent Liu Shouwen to conquer Yichang in 898, leaving Liu Shouwen in command there.
Liu Shouguang put him under house arrest and tried to advance to take over Yichang.
Liu Shouwen's secretaries Lü Yan (呂兗) and Sun He (孫鶴) supported Liu Yanzuo as Liu Shouwen's successor and tried to put up a defense at Yichang's capital Cang Prefecture (滄州).
Curiously, historical accounts do not describe what Liu Yanzuo's fate was, even though it explicitly stated that Liu Shouguang killed Lü and his household while sparing Sun.