# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yan-yuan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:07:33.644Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yan-yuan"
name: "Yan Yuan"
slug: "yan-yuan"
description: "Yan Yuan, courtesy name Yizhi or Hunran, art name Xizhai \nwas a Chinese classicist, essayist, and philosopher. He founded the practical school of Confucianism to contrast with the more ethereal Neo-Confucianism that had been popular in China for the previous six centuries. Like the Han learning scholars, he rejected the abstract metaphysics of the Neo-Confucians. However, he considered Han learning as too obsessed with philology and textual criticism and not enough emphasis on pragmatism. His school promoted the Six Arts."
tagline: "Chinese philosopher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E9%A1%8F%E5%85%83.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1635-04-27"
deathDate: "1704-09-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.411088
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A1%94%E5%85%83"
    title: "顔元"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "يان يوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yan Yuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Yuan_(Qing_dynasty)"
    title: "Yan Yuan (Qing dynasty)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Yuan"
    title: "Yan Yuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%88%EC%9B%90_(1635%EB%85%84)"
    title: "안원 (1635년)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Yuan"
    title: "Yan Yuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Yuan"
    title: "Yan Yuan"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%AE%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C"
    title: "Янь Юань"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A1%8F%E5%85%83"
    title: "顏元"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump