# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yan-ruoqu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:14:30.310Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yan-ruoqu"
name: "Yan Ruoqu"
slug: "yan-ruoqu"
description: "Yan Ruoqu 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. He also made observations and theories about the motions of the Moon and the planets."
tagline: "Chinese scholar (1636-1704)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1636-11-11"
deathDate: "1704-07-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.26
  momentum:             0.5660377358490567
  historical:           5.012096
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Ruoqu"
    title: "Yan Ruoqu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Ruoqu"
    title: "Yan Ruoqu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%96%BB%E8%8B%A5%E7%92%A9"
    title: "閻若璩"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%97%BC%EC%95%BD%EA%B1%B0"
    title: "염약거"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%96%BB%E8%8B%A5%E7%92%A9"
    title: "閻若璩"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q845480"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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