Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Scholar

Ruan Xian 阮咸

Ruǎn Xián

Attested AD 234 - AD 305

Passages: 3
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Ruan Xian was a scholar.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Zhongrong	仲容
Alternate name	Ruan Zhongrong	阮仲容

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 234 to AD 305 君欲高斅山公，而以仲容見處，徒以
Directly stated · Book of Song 62, passage 116

Key source chapters

Book of Song, Chapter 73 Volume 73 Biographies 33: Yan Yanzhi 2 passages
Book of Song, Chapter 62 Volume 62 Biographies 22: Yang Xin, Zhang Fu, Wang Wei 1 passage

Places and affiliations

At Shiping 始平郡 · Relation Banished to · Mode quoted-historical-example Source Person Id Xie Hui (謝晦)
Directly stated · Book of Song 73, passage 23

Works and attributed material

Odes to the Five Lords 五君詠
Relation Subject of poem
Directly stated · Book of Song 73, passage 48

References in the histories

Book of Song, Chapter 62Volume 62 Biographies 22: Yang Xin, Zhang Fu, Wang Wei · 1 passage

君欲高斅山公，而以仲容見處，徒以搥提禮學，本不參選，鄙夫瞻彼，固不任下走，未知新沓何如州陵耳。 You wish to take Mount Gong as your model yet treat me like Ruan Zhongrong; raised on ritual learning, I was never on the selection rolls—a coarse man like me cannot serve as your runner, and I do not know how the new appointee compares with you, Zhouling.

Book of Song, Chapter 73Volume 73 Biographies 33: Yan Yanzhi · 2 passages

領軍將軍謝晦謂延之曰：「昔荀勗忌阮咸，斥為始平郡，今卿又為始安，可謂二始。」 Xie Hui, General-in-Chief, told him: "Long ago Xun Xu envied Ruan Xian and sent him off to Shiping; now you are posted to Shi'an—you might call it a pair of 'Shi' banishments."

詠阮咸曰：「屢薦不入官，一麾乃出守。」 Of Ruan Xian: "Recommended again and again, yet never given office—a single gesture, and he is sent to rule a province."