[1]Name, dates, and degreeOu Lian lived from 1415 to 1474 and was a Ming-dynasty jinshi.
CBDBOu Lian (198289)The person record gives the name Ou Lian, birth year 1415, Ming affiliation, and a jinshi examination entry; it does not supply a death year.
Souyun歐廉 (111600)The biographical profile and narrative give 1415–1474, identify him as a Ming figure, and list the jinshi title.
WikidataOu Lian (Q45453693)The English label is Ou Lian, the description identifies him as a Ming-dynasty person, and the birth-date value corresponds to 1415; this item does not directly state the death year or the readable degree name.
[2]Courtesy name, birth order, and registrationOu Lian's courtesy name was Shijie; he was fifth in birth order, from Meizhou in Sichuan, and registered as a civilian household.
CBDBOu Lian (198289)The person record identifies Shijie as the courtesy name, gives 五 as the birth-order designation, and lists Meizhou as both basic origin and household place.
Souyun歐廉 (111600)The profile and narrative give the courtesy name, Sichuan Meizhou as the hometown, the fifth birth order, and the civilian registration.
WikidataOu Lian (Q45453693)The English alias and courtesy-name claim both give Shijie.
[3]Birth date and classical specializationOu Lian was born on the twenty-first day of the third month and studied the Spring and Autumn Classic.
Souyun歐廉 (111600)The narrative states that he was born on the twenty-first day of the third month and treated the Spring and Autumn Classic as his examination subject; the linked values give the date and classic's title.
[4]Provincial and metropolitan examinationsOu Lian entered the Shuntian Prefecture provincial examination from the National Academy, ranked twenty-fifth among the juren, and passed the metropolitan examination in three-hundred-and-thirty-fourth place.
Souyun歐廉 (111600)The narrative directly gives the National Academy background, the Shuntian Prefecture provincial examination rank of 25, and the metropolitan examination rank of 334.
CBDBOu Lian (198289)The examination and school entries separately identify a juren and a student, with the numerical values 334 and 25; the prefectural venue and sequence are stated explicitly in the narrative.
[5]Jinshi examination and ageIn 1454, Ou Lian passed the Jiaxu examination as a jinshi, ranked forty-second in the second class, at the age of forty.
Souyun歐廉 (111600)The narrative gives the Jingtai fifth-year Jiaxu examination, the second-class forty-second rank, the jinshi qualification, and age forty; the linked year value is Jingtai five, Jiaxu.
CBDBOu Lian (198289)The examination entry identifies the jinshi qualification and second-class forty-second rank, while the associated title contains Jingtai five.
WikidataOu Lian (Q45453693)The item also contains an academic-qualification claim with raw value Q420477; it can be compared with the readable jinshi evidence, but the raw item value does not spell out the degree in English.
[6]Family and marriageOu Lian's great-grandfather, grandfather, father, mother, stepmother, and wife were respectively Ou Zusan, Ou Junxiang, Ou Bin, Lady Fei, Lady Jin, and Lady Yang; the family information also includes the designation 慈侍下.
CBDBOu Lian (198289)The kinship entries name Ou Zusan, Ou Junxiang, Ou Bin, Fei, Yang, and Jin, with the corresponding ancestor, parent, spouse, and stepmother relationships.
Souyun歐廉 (111600)The narrative lists the great-grandfather, grandfather, father, mother, former mother, the designation 慈侍下, and wife Yang.
WikidataOu Lian (Q45453693)The item has separate father, mother, and spouse relationship claims whose raw values are entity identifiers; these support the relationship types but do not independently spell out the Chinese names.
[7]SiblingsOu Lian had four elder brothers: Ou Zhihai, Ou Zhiman, Ou Zhimin, and Ou Haishan.
CBDBOu Lian (198289)The kinship entries identify Ou Zhihai, Ou Zhiman, Ou Zhimin, and Ou Haishan as brothers.
Souyun歐廉 (111600)The narrative lists the four brothers as Zhihai, Zhiman, Zhimin, and Haishan.