辯正論 3.52

3.52

Xu Mian, Viscount Jiansu, Palace Attendant, Left Supervisor of the Department of State Affairs, General of the Central Guard, Specially Advanced, and Grand Master of the Household on the Right under the Liang: his warmth and elegance were long renowned, his gem-like virtue early recognised. From the canons of the Mingtang and the Qutai, to the texts of Zuo, Xia, Han, and Yi, the soaring writings of wind and flame, the studies of Yanzhong and Jixia, the half-pearl doctrine of the Dragon Palace, and the scrolls of Vulture Peak and Flower River—there was none of whose sources he did not reach and whose profundity he did not plumb, devoting his mind to each in turn.