Qin and Han · Hermit

Lord Yuan 園公

Yuan gong

Attested BC 200 - BC 180

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Lord Yuan was a Hermit.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 200 to BC 180 南山四皓有園公
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 40, passage 198

Places and affiliations

Polity Western Han 西漢 · Relation Active under
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 40, passage 198

Assessments and attributes

Assessment praised-for-hidden-virtue · Mode named-speaker Speaker Wenju (文舉)
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 40, passage 198

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 40, passage 187

References in the histories

Book of Later Han, Chapter 40Volume 35: Biographies of Zhang, Cao, Zheng · 1 passage

又南山四皓有園公、夏黃公，潛光隱耀，世嘉其高，皆悉稱公。 Among the South Mountain Four, Lord Yuan and Lord Xia Huang hid their light; the world praised their height, and each was called lord.