冯良 / Feng Liang (late Han)

Overview

冯良 / Feng Liang enters the wiki through Hanji 799 as a Nanyang scholar recommended by 陈忠 alongside 周燮. His refusal of Emperor An’s summons makes him a paired early case of 原则性拒仕.

Current Profile

Hanji 799 presents Feng Liang through Chen Zhong’s recommendation. Like Zhou Xie, he is praised for learning and upright conduct, has public reputation outside the court, and receives an imperial summons with formal gifts. The source does not provide a long independent speech for Feng Liang, so his profile is tied closely to the paired refusal action.

After the summons, Zhou Xie and Feng Liang return to their county offices, claim illness, and lie at home rather than enter service. The episode’s synthesis links that refusal to the same theme as Yang Zhen’s refusal of appointment favors: principled actors judge circumstances and do not treat power’s invitation as automatically legitimate.

Key Characteristics

• Nanyang scholar with reputation for learning and upright conduct.
• Recommended by Chen Zhong as worthy of imperial summons.
• Refuses office through the same illness-return tactic as Zhou Xie.
• Paired evidence that recruitment can fail when court credibility is weak.
• Source-bounded figure whose independent biography remains undeveloped in this wiki.

Evidence

• Recommendation: Hanji 799 says Chen Zhong recommends Feng Liang and Zhou Xie as learned and upright men.
• Summons and refusal: Hanji 799 says Emperor An summons them and that both return to their counties claiming illness.
• Interpretive frame: Hanji 799 connects Feng Liang’s refusal with judging the political moment rather than taking office at any cost.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 799. It does not settle Feng Liang’s later career, teaching activity, family background, or exact private reasoning beyond the paired refusal record and the host’s interpretive frame.

What Changed

• Created Feng Liang as the Nanyang scholar whose refusal pairs with Zhou Xie under Emperor An.

Relationships

• 陈忠 - recommender whose praise brings Feng Liang to imperial attention.
• 周燮 - paired scholar in the same summons and refusal event.
• 汉安帝 - ruler who issues the summons Feng Liang does not accept.
• 原则性拒仕 - concept modeled by Feng Liang’s refusal to convert summons into service.
• 选官通道竞争 - broader selection field because Feng Liang’s public reputation contrasts with private appointment pressure elsewhere in the source.