Abstract: Ruan Yuan ( 1764-1849) was a very famous scholar-bureaucrat during the reigns of Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty He was deeply affected by the school of Han Learning in Anhui which originated from Dai Zhen ( 1723-1777) Ruan agreed with the scholastic method of finding the Y i-Li from phonetics and etymology Furthermore, he stood for the Han Learning and restrained the Song Learning in his works .Ruan advocated seeking truth from facts and the goal of applying scholarship to statecraft , but, as the Mount Taishan and the North Star of the academic circles of his time, Ruan Yuan w as not satisfied with the sectarian bias of the Han learners He worked hard to reconcile the debate between the Han and the Song schools of thought, because the Song learning served as the official philosophy and the Han Learning increasingly lost contact with reality. Ruan Yuan’s effort to reconcile the debate exerted a great influence on the academic circles of the Late Qing Dynasty, especially the Ling-Nan school which was lead by Lin Botong ( 1775-1845) and Chen L i ( 1810-1882).