Ruan Xiaoxu (阮孝緒)

Overview

The translated histories identify Ruan Xiaoxu as a family member, hermit, and scholar. This record brings together 5 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Ruan Xiaoxu	阮孝緒	Ruǎn Xiàoxù
Surname	Ruan	阮	Ruǎn
Surname	Ruan	阮
Personal name	Ruan Xiaoxu	阮孝緒
Personal name	Ruan Xiaoxu	阮孝緒	Ruǎn Xiàoxù
Given	Xiaoxu	孝緒	Xiàoxù
Given name	Xiaoxu	孝緒

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liangshu:030:s0052, liangshu:047:s0242
Sex: male
Explicit · liangshu:030:s0199

Roles

Family Member
Hermit
Scholar

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: scholarly circle · Western Year: AD 526
Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:030:s0052
Source Date: Text: 舅阮孝緒聞之 · Western Interval: Start: AD 502 · End: AD 549
Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:047:s0258
Source Date: Text: 處士阮孝緒致書抑譬 · Western Interval: Start: AD 502 · End: AD 549
Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:047:s0242
Western Interval: Start: AD 479 · End: AD 536 · Source Date: Text: 阮孝緒常言
Strongly inferred · liangshu:030:s0199

Family

Kin of Xie Lan (謝藺)
Kinship Term: maternal uncle / 舅 · Line: maternal · Subject Role: maternal-uncle · Object Role: nephew · Intermediary Person Ids: Mother of Xie Lan (謝覽母)
Kinship Term: maternal uncle / 舅 · Line: maternal · Subject Role: nephew · Object Role: maternal-uncle · Intermediary Person Ids: Mother of Xie Lan (謝覽母)
Sibling of Mother of Xie Lan (謝覽母)
Kinship Term: sister / 姊 · Line: maternal · Shared Parentage: full
Kinship Term: maternal uncle / 舅 · Line: maternal · Subject Role: brother · Object Role: sister

Career and standing

Status: recluse · Action: held
Explicit · liangshu:047:s0242

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Text: At home this boy is like Zengzi; in serving a lord he would match young Lan. / 此兒在家則曾子之流，事君則藺生之匹。 · Other Person Id: Xie Lan (謝藺)
Explicit · liangshu:047:s0258
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Text: He is our house's Yangyuan. / 吾家陽元也 · Other Person Id: Xie Lan (謝藺)
Explicit · liangshu:047:s0261
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Statement: in Confucius's discussion of the four categories, he began with virtue and conduct and ended with letters and learning / 仲尼論四科，始乎德行，終乎文學 · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Yao Cha (姚察)
Explicit · liangshu:030:s0199

Events and relationships

Kind: personal · Role: advisor · Action: sent letter to restrain Liu Ji's mourning · Other Person Id: Liu Ji (劉霽)
Explicit · liangshu:047:s0242

References in the histories

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Book of Liang, Chapter 30Volume 30: Pei Ziye; Gu Xie; Xu Chi; Bao Quan · 2 passages

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子野與沛國劉顯、南陽劉之遴、陳郡殷芸、陳留阮孝緒、吳郡顧協、京兆韋棱，皆博極羣書，深相賞好，顯尤推重之。 Ziye, together with Liu Xian of Peiguo, Liu Zhilin of Nanyang, Yin Yun of Chen commandery, Ruan Xiaoxu of Chenliu, Gu Xie of Wu commandery, and Wei Leng of Jingzhao, had all read exhaustively and were close friends; Xian especially esteemed him.

陳吏部尚書姚察曰：阮孝緒常言，仲尼論四科，始乎德行，終乎文學。 Yao Cha, Director of the Ministry of Personnel of Chen, said: Ruan Xiaoxu often said that in Confucius's discussion of the four categories, he began with virtue and conduct and ended with letters and learning.

Book of Liang, Chapter 47Volume 47: Filial Acts · 3 passages

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處士阮孝緒致書抑譬，霽思慕不已，服未終而卒，時年五十二。 Ruan Xiaoxu wrote to restrain him, but Ji's longing never ceased; before mourning ended he died at fifty-two.

舅阮孝緒聞之，歎曰：「此兒在家則曾子之流，事君則藺生之匹。」 His uncle Ruan Xiaoxu sighed, "At home this boy is like Zengzi; in serving a lord he would match young Lan."

孝緒每曰「吾家陽元也」。 Xiaoxu often said, "He is our house's Yangyuan."