Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Court Favorite and Official

Ru Faliang 茹法亮

Attested AD 457 - AD 498

Passages: 19
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Ru Faliang as a courtier, official, and priest. This record brings together 19 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Ru Faliang	茹法亮	Ru Faliang
Given name	Faliang	法亮	Faliang
Surname	Ru	茹	Ru
Personal name	Ru Faliang	茹法亮	Ru Faliang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · nanqishu:056:s0120

Roles

Courtier
Official
Priest

Life and dates

Death

Age: 64
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0142

Age

Age: 64 · Reckoning: sui
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0142

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 元徽初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 473 · End: AD 473
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0126
Source Date: Text: 宋大明世 · Western Interval: Start: AD 457 · End: AD 464
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0121
Source Date: Text: 延興元年 · Western Year: AD 494
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0135
Source Date: Text: 建元初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 479 · End: AD 479
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0191
Source Date: Text: 永明二年 · Western Year: AD 484
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0196
Source Date: Text: 永明元年 · Western Year: AD 483
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0195
Source Date: Text: 永泰元年 · Western Year: AD 498
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0140

Career and standing

Label: petty clerk / 小史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宋大明世 · Western Interval: Start: AD 457 · End: AD 464
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0121
Label: Minister of Grand Food / 大司農 · Action: transferred
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0141
Title: Baron of Wangcai county / 望蔡縣男 · Action: enfeoffed · Households: 300 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永明二年 · Western Year: AD 484
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0196, nanqishu:056:s0200

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liu-song · Relation: served
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0121
Place: Wukang in Wuxing / 吳興武康
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0120

Learning and skills

Belief: Daoism / 道 · Relation: entered-clergy
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0123
Belief: Daoism / 道 · Relation: left-clergy
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0124

Events and relationships

Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: failed-to-pacify · Other Person Id: Prince of Badong Zixiang (巴東王子響)
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0127, nanqishu:056:s0128, nanqishu:056:s0129, nanqishu:056:s0130
Relation: client-of · Person Id: Ruan Tianfu (阮佃夫)
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0124

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: clever, capable, skilled at attendance · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0189

Source notes

Statement: Associated with Southern Qi (南齊); polity id not supplied in packet. · Label: Southern Qi / 南齊
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0191

References in the histories

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Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 56Volume 56 Biographies 37: Trusted Officials · 19 passages

紀僧真劉係宗茹法亮呂文顯呂文度 Ji Sengzhen, Liu Xizong, Ru Faliang, Lü Wenxian, and Lü Wendu

茹法亮，吳興武康人也。 Ru Faliang was a native of Wukang in Wuxing commandery.

法亮憂懼，因緣啓出家得爲道人。 Faliang, anxious and afraid, seized the opportunity to petition to leave the world and become a Daoist priest.

世祖鎮盆城，須舊驅使人，法亮求留爲上江州典籤，除南臺御史，帶松滋令。 When Emperor Wu was stationed at Pencheng and needed experienced dispatch runners, Faliang asked to stay on as chief clerk of Upper Jiangzhou, was appointed censor of the Southern Terrace, and concurrently served as magistrate of Songzi.

法亮便辟解事，善於承奉，稍見委信。 Faliang was quick and capable, skilled at attendance and service, and gradually won trust and responsibility.

明年，詔曰：「茹法亮近在盆城，頻使銜命，內宣朝旨，外慰三軍。 The next year an edict said: "Ru Faliang was recently at Pencheng, repeatedly bearing imperial commands, proclaiming the court's will within and comforting the armies without.

巴東王子響於荊州殺僚佐，上遣軍西上，使法亮宣旨慰勞，安撫子響。 Prince Zixiang of Badong killed his staff officers in Jingzhou. The emperor sent armies west and dispatched Faliang to proclaim the imperial will, offer comfort, and pacify the prince.

法亮至江津，子響呼法亮，法亮疑畏不肯往。 When Faliang reached Jiangjin, Zixiang summoned him, but Faliang, suspicious and afraid, refused to go.

又求見傳詔，法亮又不遣。 The prince again asked to see the edict-bearer, but Faliang would not send him in.

事平，法亮至江陵，刑賞處分，皆稱敕斷決。 When the affair was settled, Faliang reached Jiangling and decided punishments, rewards, and dispositions all in the name of imperial command.

軍還，上悔誅子響，法亮被責。 When the army returned, the emperor regretted executing Zixiang and blamed Faliang.

鬱林卽位，除步兵校尉。 When Emperor Yulin took the throne, Faliang was appointed colonel of footsoldiers.

二少帝竝居西殿，高宗卽位住東齋，開陰室出世祖白紗帽防身刀，法亮歔欷流涕。 The two young emperors both lived in the western hall. When Emperor Gao took the throne he lodged in the eastern studio, opened the private chamber, and brought out Emperor Wu's white gauze cap and self-defense knife. Faliang sobbed and wept.

高武舊人鮮有存者，法亮以主署文事，故不見疑，位任如故。 Few of Emperor Gao Wu's old associates still survived. Because Faliang handled documentary affairs at the secretariat, he was not suspected, and his rank and duties remained unchanged.

永泰元年，王敬則事平，法亮復受敕宣慰。 In the first year of Yongtai, when Wang Jingze's revolt was put down, Faliang again received orders to proclaim imperial comfort.

出法亮爲大司農，中書勢利之職，法亮不樂去，固辭不受，旣而代人已致，法亮垂涕而出。 Faliang was transferred out to serve as Minister of Grand Food. The Secretariat was a post of power and profit, and he was unwilling to leave; he firmly declined the transfer, but soon his replacement had arrived, and Faliang left in tears.

與茹法亮等迭出入爲舍人，竝見親倖。 He and Ru Faliang and others took turns serving as secretariat attendants, and all enjoyed the emperor's intimate favor.

上性尊嚴，呂文顯嘗在殿側咳聲高，上使茹法亮訓詰之，以爲不敬，故左右畏威承意，非所隷莫敢有言也。 The emperor was stern by nature. Lü Wenxian once coughed loudly beside the throne, and the emperor had Ru Faliang reprimand him for disrespect. Thereafter those at the emperor's side feared his authority and complied with his wishes, and none outside their jurisdiction dared speak up.

時茹法亮掌雜驅使簿，及宣通密敕； At that time Ru Faliang controlled miscellaneous service registers and the proclamation and transmission of secret edicts;