Huáng Kǎn 皇侃 (488–545)
Liáng-period scholar of the Classics; native of Wújùn 吳郡 (modern Sūzhōu, Jiāngsū). Ninth-generation descendant of Huáng Xiàng 皇象, the noted Wú-period calligrapher and qīngzhōu cìshǐ 青州刺史. The graphic variant 皇偘 in the Liáng shū 梁書 is a different orthography of the same name.
Career as preserved in Liáng shū 梁書 Rúlínzhuàn 儒林傳 (juan 48): under the Wǔdì 武帝, served as Guózǐ zhùjiāo 國子助教 (Assistant Professor of the Imperial Academy); shortly afterward promoted to sànqí shìláng 散騎侍郎 while concurrently retaining the academy post. Died in Dàtóng 11 (545).
His Liáng shū biography lists two principal works: the Lǐjì yì 禮記義 in 50 juàn — long lost — and the Lúnyǔ yì 論語義 in 10 juàn. The latter, more fully titled Lúnyǔ jíjiě yìshū 論語集解義疏 (KR1h0006), is a sub-commentary on Hé Yàn’s 何晏 Lúnyǔ jíjiě. It is recorded in the Sòng Guóshǐzhì 國史志, the Zhōngxīng shūmù 中興書目, Cháo Gōngwǔ’s 晁公武 Dúshū zhì, and Yóu Mào’s 尤袤 Suíchūtáng shūmù; from the Qián-/Chúnxī era onwards no Chinese citation of it survives, and Chén Zhènsūn’s 陳振孫 Shūlù jiětí 書錄解題 already does not list it — i.e., the work was lost in China by the Southern Sòng.
It survived only through Japanese transmission. In Kāngxī 9 (1670) Yamai Kanae 山井鼎 and other Japanese scholars compiled the Qījīng Mèngzǐ kǎowén 七經孟子考文, in which they noted that this commentary still existed in Japan; Zhū Yízūn’s 朱彝尊 Jīngyì kǎo 經義考 marks it “wèi jiàn” 未見 (unseen). The text was reimported to China at the beginning of the Qiánlóng era, and incorporated into the Sìkù quánshū — the Sìkù tíyào at KR1h0006 celebrates this rediscovery as preserving “one thread of the HànJìn classical tradition” (HànJìn jīngxué zhī yīxiàn 漢晉經學之一綫). It is the principal early-medieval source for Liáng-period reception of Hé Yàn’s jíjiě and for the lost Hàn commentaries that the jíjiě itself excerpts.
(Huáng Kǎn does not appear in CBDB; the dates 488–545 are derived from the Liáng shū biography.)