Fu Yan 傅琰

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · liangshu:042:s0068, nanqishu:053:s0002

Roles

• Administrator
• Family Member
• Official

Family

• Parent of Fu Hui (傅翽)
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Parentage: biological · Generation Distance: 1 · Line: paternal · Subject Role: grandfather · Object Role: grandson
• Descendant of Fu Shao (傅邵)
  Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal · Intermediary Person Ids: Fu Sengyou (傅僧祐)
• Child of Fu Hongren (傅弘仁)
  Kinship Term: great-grandfather / 高祖 · Parentage: biological · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal · Subject Role: great-grandfather · Object Role: grandson
• Child of Fu Sengyou (傅僧祐)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
• Child of Mother of Fu Yan
  Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother

Career and standing

• Action: appointed · Appointments: Adjutant of the Pacify-the-Barbarians Army / 寧蠻參軍, Chief Clerk of his native province / 本州主簿, Records Officer of the Pacify-the-Barbarians Army / 寧蠻功曹
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0234
• Action: appointed · Appointments: Assistant Administrator of Wuxing / 吳興郡丞
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0236
• Action: appointed · Appointments: Consultant to the Left Army of the Prince of Shaoling / 邵陵王左軍諮議, Recorder-Adjutant to the Prince of Jiangxia / 江夏王錄事參軍
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0025
• Action: appointed · Appointments: Magistrate of Wukang in Zhuji / 諸暨武康令, General of Expansive Might / 廣威將軍, Gentleman of the Left People Section / 尚書左民郎, Magistrate of Wukang / 武康令 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永光元年 · Western Year: AD 465
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0235
• Label: Inspector of Yi Province / 益州刺史 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · liangshu:042:s0068
• Action: promoted · Appointments: Provisional Bearer of the Staff / 假節, Commander of military affairs in Yi and Ning / 督益寧二州軍事, General Who Establishes Might / 建威將軍, Inspector of Yizhou / 益州刺史, Grand Administrator of Songning / 宋寧太守 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 昇明二年 · Western Year: AD 478
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0237
• Action: promoted · Appointments: Right Assistant Director in the Masters of Writing / 尚書右丞 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元徽初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 473 · End: AD 477
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0022
• Action: reappointed · Appointments: Magistrate of Shanyin / 山陰令
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0026
• Action: recalled and appointed · Appointments: General of Valiant Cavalry / 驍騎將軍, Gentleman at the Yellow Gate / 黃門郎 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建元四年 · Western Year: AD 482
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0239
• Action: title advanced · Appointments: General Who Pacifies the North / 寧朔將軍 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建元元年 · Western Year: AD 479
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0238
• Action: transferred · Appointments: Chief Clerk to the Pacify-the-West Army under the Prince of Luling / 廬陵王安西長史, Interior Minister of Nan commandery / 南郡內史, Acting Governor of Jingzhou / 行荊州事 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明年（永明三年） · Western Year: AD 485
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0241
• Action: transferred · Appointments: General Who Establishes Might / 建威將軍, Chief Clerk to the Northern Gentlemen of the Interior under the Prince of Anlu / 安陸王北中郎長史, General Who Pacifies the North / 寧朔將軍 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永明二年 · Western Year: AD 484
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0240
• Action: transferred · Appointments: Magistrate of Shanyin / 山陰令 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 泰始六年 · Western Year: AD 470
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0019
• Action: imperial attendance ordered when his coffin was borne westward
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0243
• Title: Marquis of Xinting / 新亭侯 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 其年（泰始六年） · Western Year: AD 470
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0021

Places and affiliations

• Place: Lingzhou in Beidi / 北地靈州
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0016

Works and attributed material

• Work: Register of Governing Districts / 治縣譜 · Relation: family-transmitter · Provenance: Mode: hearsay · Access: kept from outsiders
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0031

Events and relationships

• Kind: filial-rescue · Action: held his mother's coffin during a spreading house fire and suffered scorching until neighbors saved it
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0023, nanqishu:053:s0024
• Kind: legal-adjudication · Action: resolved a chicken-ownership dispute by examining its crop and punished the false claimant
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0028
• Kind: legal-adjudication · Action: resolved a silk-ownership dispute by whipping the silk and finding iron filings, then punished the sugar seller
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0027

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: especially discerning and renowned for administrative ability · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0020
• Assessment: Fu Yan and his father both had extraordinary administrative records, rarely matched south of the Yangtze · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0030
• Assessment: hailed throughout the district as uncannily wise; theft ceased · Provenance: Mode: collective-reputation
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0029
• 美姿儀
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0234