Lady Ruan (阮氏) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Lady Ruan as a family member. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese
Personal	Lady Ruan	阮氏
Descriptive kinship	Grandmother of Xie Zhen	祖母阮氏
Personal name	Lady Ruan	阮氏

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · chenshu:032:s0066

Roles

Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 梁 · Western Interval: Start: AD 502 · End: AD 557
Explicit · chenshu:032:s0066

Family

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Parent of Xie Zhen (謝貞)
Kinship Term: grandmother / 祖母 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
Parent of Xie Lan (謝藺)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological

Assessments and attributes

Kind: illness · Statement: wind dizziness
Explicit · chenshu:032:s0066

References in the histories

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Book of Chen, Chapter 32Volume 32: Filial Piety · 2 passages

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祖母阮氏先苦風眩，每發便一二日不能飲食，貞時年七歲，祖母不食，貞亦不食，往往如是，親族莫不奇之。 His grandmother Lady Ruan had long suffered from wind dizziness; whenever it flared she could not eat or drink for a day or two. Zhen was then seven; when his grandmother did not eat, Zhen also did not eat. Often it was so, and kin on both sides all marveled at him.

初，父藺居母阮氏憂，不食泣血而卒，家人賓客懼貞復然，從父洽、族兄暠乃共往華嚴寺，請長爪禪師為貞說法，仍謂貞曰：「孝子既無兄弟，極須自愛，若憂毀滅性，誰養母邪？」 Earlier, his father Lin in mourning for his mother Lady Ruan had not eaten and wept blood until he died. Family and guests feared Zhen would do the same. His father's younger brother Qia and his clansman Hao together went to Huayan Temple and asked the monk Long Claw to preach the law for Zhen, and also told Zhen, "A filial son has no brothers and must cherish himself utterly. If grief destroys your nature, who will nourish your mother?"