Yuan · Scholar and Historian

Ouyang Xuan 歐陽玄

Ōuyáng Xuán

Attested AD 1314 - AD 1354

Passages
7
Chapters
4
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Ouyang Xuan as an editor, historian, official, and scholar. This record brings together 7 passages from 4 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

PeriodYuan

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Ouyang Xuan 歐陽玄 Ōuyáng Xuán
Title Hanlin Academician Recipient of Edicts 翰林學士承旨
Surname Ouyang 歐陽 Ōuyáng
Surname Ouyang 歐陽 Ouyang
Surname Ouyang 歐陽
Personal name Ouyang Xuan 歐陽玄 Ōuyáng Xuán
Personal name Ouyang Xuan 歐陽玄 Ouyang Xuan
Personal Ouyang Xuan 歐陽玄 Ouyang Xuan
Personal name 玄 Xuan

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Editor
  • Historian
  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Writer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Career and standing

  • Label: Chief compiler / 總裁官 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:117:s0037
  • Label: Hanlin Academician Recipient of Edicts / 翰林學士承旨 · Action: held
    Explicit · yuanshi:066:s0017
  • Label: Hanlin Academician / 翰林學士 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:117:s0037

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History of Liao, Chapter 117Appendix: History of the Liao Table · 1 passage
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於是命臣脫脫以中書右丞相領都總裁，中書平章政事臣鐵睦爾達世、中書右丞今平章政事臣賀惟一、御史中丞今翰林學士承旨臣張起巖，翰林學士臣歐陽玄、侍御史今集賢侍講學士兼國子祭酒臣呂思誠、翰林侍講學士臣揭傒斯奉命為總裁官。 Thereupon Your Majesty appointed your subject Toqto'a, Right Chancellor of the Secretariat, as overall chief compiler, and ordered the Secretariat Councilor Tiemuer Dashi, Right Vice Chancellor and now Councilor He Wei, Censor-in-Chief and now Hanlin Expositor-in-Chief Zhang Qiyan, Hanlin Academician Ouyang Xuan, Attending Censor and now Academician Lecturer of the Hall of Gathered Worthies and Concurrent Director of the Imperial Academy Lü Sicheng, and Hanlin Lecturer Jie Xisi to serve as chief compilers.
History of Yuan, Chapter 66Volume 66 Treatises 19: Rivers and Canals 3 · 4 passages
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帝遣貴臣報祭河伯，召魯還京師，論功超拜榮祿大夫、集賢大學士，其宣力諸臣遷賞有差，賜丞相脫脫世襲答剌罕之號，特命翰林學士承旨歐陽玄制河平碑文，以旌勞績。 The emperor sent high officials to report the sacrifice to the River Lord and summoned Jia Lu back to the capital. For his service Jia Lu was promoted beyond the usual grades to Grand Master for Glorious Emolument and Grand Academician of the Hall of Gathered Worthies; other officials who had labored on the project received promotions and rewards in varying measure; Chancellor Toghto was granted the hereditary title of Darqan; and Hanlin Academician Ouyang Xuan was commissioned to compose the Stele on Pacifying the River, to commemorate the achievement.
玄既為河平之碑，又自以為司馬遷、班固記河渠溝洫，僅載治水之道，不言其方，使後世任斯事者無所考則，乃從魯訪問方略，及詢過客，質吏牘，作《至正河防記》，欲使來世罹河患者按而求之。 After composing the pacification stele, Ouyang Xuan reflected that Sima Qian and Ban Gu, in their treatises on rivers and canals, recorded only general principles of water control, not the practical methods—leaving later engineers nothing concrete to follow. He therefore interviewed Jia Lu about his methods, questioned travelers who had witnessed the work, checked official records, and wrote the Record of Zhizheng River Control so that future generations facing river disasters might find actionable guidance within it.
History of Yuan, Chapter 171Volume 171 Biographies 58: Liu Yin, Wu Cheng · 1 passage
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History of Yuan, Chapter 196Volume 196 Biographies 83: Loyal and Righteous Acts 4 · 1 passage
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