Yan Hui

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Yan Hui

Yan Hui ( Chinese  颜回 ; * 521 BC in the Cai ; † 490 BC ) was the favorite disciple of Confucius and is one of the most revered personalities of Confucianism . In Confucian temples he is revered as one of the "four wise men".

Life

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In addition to around 3,000 followers, Confucius had 72 to 75 disciples who felt understood. Yan Hui was from Lu State in what is now Shandong Province . His father, Yan Wuyou (Yan Lu), was one of Confucius' earliest disciples. Yan Hui was about 30 years younger than Confucius and became a disciple of Master at a young age.

The professional biography of the consultant from Qufu shows gaps. In one of these times of asceticism , Confucius was traveling with Yan Hui through the states of Chen and Cai when they encountered an abandoned sack of rice . Yan Hui cooked the rice and Confucius watched, eyes sharpened with hunger, as Yan Hui ate the half-cooked rice. When Yan Hui offered the cooked rice to Confucius, the latter said that he had dreamed of his father and that part of the rice should now be sacrificed to him. Yan Hui then explained to him that the rice was contaminated by fine dust and therefore unsuitable as a sacrifice.

  • Temple with a figure of Yan Hui in Qufu .

  • Memorial plaque for Yan Hui in Qufu.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Confucius : The Analects of Confucius. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1997, ISBN 978-0-19-506157-4 , p. 201.
  2. ↑ Annping Chin : The authentic Confucius: a life of thought and politics. Simon and Schuster, 2007, ISBN 0-7432-4618-7 , p. 75
  3. ↑ Ed. Kuijie Zhou, A Basic Confucius : An Introduction to the Wisdom and Advice of China's Greatest Sage, 2005, 198 pp., 73
personal data
SURNAME Yan Hui
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 521 BC Chr.
PLACE OF BIRTH Cai
DATE OF DEATH 490 BC Chr.