Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Philosopher and Official

He Yan 何晏

Attested AD 240 - AD 249

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

He Yan was a Philosopher and Official.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Pingshu	平叔	Pingshu

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 240 to AD 249 平叔（何晏）
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 191
AD 240 to AD 249 正始
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 259

Places and affiliations

Polity Cao Wei 曹魏 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 191

Works and attributed material

Laozi / xuanxue
Relation Commentator
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 191
Book of Changes 周易
Relation Interpreter
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 259

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 191
could not fathom seven points in the Changes, including the timely import within the hexagrams
Mode named-person-report Source Person Id Zhang Xu (張緒)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 259

References in the histories

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 33Volume 33 Biographies 14: Wang Sengqian, Zhang Xu · 2 passages

汝開《老子》卷頭五尺許，未知輔嗣何所道，平叔何所說，馬、鄭何所異，《指》《例》何所明，而便盛於麈尾，自呼談士，此最險事。 You unfold the Laozi a foot or five into the first fascicle, yet cannot say what Fusi argued, what Pingshu taught, where Ma and Zheng part company, what the Pointers and Examples make plain—and already you brandish the fly-whisk and call yourself a talker. That is the deadliest folly.

常云何平叔所不解《易》中七事，諸卦中所有時義，是其一也。 He often remarked that of the seven points in the Changes He Yan could not fathom, the timely import within each hexagram was one of them.