A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Fan Hsüan
537 Fan Hsüan Fan Hsüan 范宣 (T. 宣子.) 4th cent. A.D. A clever youth, fond of solitude and of studying the Book of Rites. Extremely poor, he supported himself by farming, and proudly declined aid from an admirer, the Prefect of Yü-chang in Kiangsi. His fame attracted Tai K'uei and others from great distances, and to him and to Fan Ning is attributed the taste for classical studies which developed in Kiangnan and Chehkiang. Author of a work on the Rites and Canon of Changes, entitled 禮易論難.