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In this Chinese name, the family name is Yan.
Yan Ruoqu (simplified Chinese: 阎若璩; traditional Chinese: 閻若璩; pinyin: Yán Ruòqú; Wade–Giles: Yen Jochü; November 11, 1636 – July 9, 1704) was an influential Chinese scholar of the early Qing dynasty. He was born to a scholarly family in Taiyuan, Shanxi. Yan Ruoqu is most famous for proving that the "Old Text" chapters of the Confucian classic Book of Documents were forgeries (see zh:尚書古文疏證).[1] He also made observations and theories about the motions of the Moon and the planets.
Yan's work on the Classic of History was independently verified and praised by Hui Dong (1697-1758), the verification work was finished by him and Sun Xingyan.
Liang Qichao praised Yan as being "number one textual scholar of the recent 300 years" (approx. translation from the Chinese Wiki quote 不能不認為近三百年學術解放之第一功臣, unreferenced). As such, he became an important precursor of the Doubting Antiquity School.
^伏胜 [Fu Sheng] (in Chinese). Guoxue.com. 2012-06-25. Retrieved 2013-05-21.
YanRuoqu (simplified Chinese: 阎若璩; traditional Chinese: 閻若璩; pinyin: YánRuòqú; Wade–Giles: Yen Jochü; November 11, 1636 – July 9, 1704) was an influential...
Yingda's project. It was only in the 17th century that Qing dynasty scholar YanRuoqu demonstrated that the "Old Script" were actually fabrications "reconstructed"...
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Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, wife of Ferdinand Maria (d. 1676) November 11 – YanRuoqu, Chinese scholar (d. 1704) November 14 – Pierre du Cambout de Coislin...
Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, wife of Ferdinand Maria (d. 1676) November 11 – YanRuoqu, Chinese scholar (d. 1704) November 14 – Pierre du Cambout de Coislin...
a number works on the Change classic and the Chunqiu. His support to YanRuoqu-Hui Dong's refutation of the Old Text Shangshu chapters stood in opposition...
chapter "Yue ming" 說命 represents a dialogue between Wu Ding and Fu Yue; YanRuoqu 閻若璩 demonstrated that this chapter is one of the 25 that he believed were...
(born 1627) June 18 – Tom Brown, English satirist (born 1662) July 9 – YanRuoqu (閻若璩), Chinese scholar and polymath (born 1636) July 24 – István Gyöngyösi...
with works of philosophers. By the mid-eighteenth century, Han learning (YanRuoqu, Hui Dong) had proved that various parts of the sacred classics were in...
than 1,000 years until the Qing Dynasty, when the 17th-century scholar YanRuoqu devoted much of his lifetime to the study of the Shangshu and conclusively...
famous textual criticism scholars of his day, such as Zhang Erqi [zh] and YanRuoqu. When he was editing, he made philological comments on the books he referred...
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