# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruan-xian
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:26:41.254Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruan-xian"
name: "Ruan Xian"
slug: "ruan-xian"
description: "Ruan Xian, courtesy name Zhongrong, was a Chinese scholar who lived in the Six Dynasties period. One of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, he was a skilled player of the Chinese lute, an old version of pipa which has been called ruan after his name since the Tang dynasty. His achievement in music reached such high as to be described as \"divine understanding\" in the Book of Jin. Ruan Xian had a Xianbei slave who gave birth to his son, Ruan Fu."
tagline: "3rd century Chinese scholar and musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rong_Qiqi_and_Ruan_Xian.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "234"
deathDate: "305"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.16
  momentum:             5.496351466961904
  historical:           6.561053333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%AE%E5%92%B8"
    title: "阮咸"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruan_Xian"
    title: "Ruan Xian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%AE%E5%92%B8"
    title: "阮咸"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%99%84%ED%95%A8"
    title: "완함"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruan_Xian"
    title: "Ruan Xian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%A1%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%8C"
    title: "Жуань Сянь"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%AE%E5%92%B8%E4%BB%B2%E5%AE%B9"
    title: "阮咸仲容"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3270479"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump