Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Tribal Leader

Ruoluohe 若洛廆

Ruòluòhuī

Attested AD 290 - AD 330

Passages: 8
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Ruoluohe was a Tribal Leader.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 290 to AD 330 與渾分部牧馬及作阿干之歌
Strongly inferred · Book of Song 96, passages 5, 22

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Sibling of Tuyuhun (吐谷渾)
elder brother 兄 · Paternal half siblings
Directly stated · Book of Song 96, passages 2, 4-5
Child of Yiluohan (弈洛韓)
father 父
son 子
Directly stated · Book of Song 96, passages 2, 4

Origins and identity

Xianbei 鮮卑
Directly stated · Book of Song 96, passages 1, 3
Murong clan 慕容氏
Directly stated · Book of Song 96, passage 3

Career and standing

legitimate heir 正嫡
Legitimate heir
Directly stated · Book of Song 96, passage 4

Places and affiliations

At Liaodong 遼東
Directly stated · Book of Song 96, passages 1, 3

Works and attributed material

Song of Aghan 阿干之歌
Relation Author
Directly stated · Book of Song 96, passage 22
Speech · Speaker · Mode direct-quotation
Directly stated · Book of Song 96, passage 5

Events and relationships

Song of Aghan 阿干之歌
Cultural · Author · Composed
Directly stated · Book of Song 96, passage 22

References in the histories

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History

8 passages

Book of Song, Chapter 96Volume 96 Biographies 56: Xianbei and Tuyuhun Peoples · 8 passages

父弈洛韓，有二子，長曰吐谷渾，少曰若洛廆。 Their father Yiluohan had two sons—the elder named Tuyuhun, the younger Ruoluohe.

若洛廆別為慕容氏。 Ruoluohe's descendants formed the Murong clan as a separate line.

渾庶長，廆正嫡。 Hun was the elder son of a concubine, while Hui was the legitimate heir.

父在時，分七百戶與渾，[2]渾與廆二部俱牧馬，馬鬭相傷，廆怒，遣信謂渾曰：「先公處分，與兄異部，牧馬何不相遠，而致鬭爭相傷？」 While their father was still alive he allotted seven hundred households to Hun. [2] The two divisions of Hun and Hui pastured their horses together; when the herds fought and injured one another, Hui grew angry and sent a messenger to Hun, saying, "Our late father placed you and me in separate divisions—why not pasture farther apart, instead of letting the horses fight and wound each other?"

經數頓，廆悔悟，深自咎責，遣舊父老及長史乙那樓追渾令還。 After several days' march Hui repented and reproached himself deeply; he sent the old clan elders and Chief Clerk Yi Nalou to overtake Hun and bring him back.

渾謂其部落曰：「我兄弟子孫，並應昌盛，廆當傳子及曾孫玄孫，其間可百餘年，我乃玄孫間始當顯耳。」 Hun told his tribesmen, "My brother's line and mine will both prosper; Hui's house will pass from son to great-grandson and beyond for perhaps a hundred years or more, while my line will not come to prominence until the generation of my great-great-grandsons."

後廆追思渾，作阿干之歌。 Later, missing Hun, Hui composed the Song of Aghan.

廆子孫竊號，以此歌為輦後大曲。 When Hui's descendants assumed royal titles, they made this song the great processional hymn played behind the imperial carriage.