Fu Yi (傅毅) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Fu Yi as a military officer, official, poet, and scholar. This record brings together 8 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Fu Yi	傅毅	Fu Yi
Surname	Fu	傅	Fu
Courtesy	Wuzhong	武仲	Wuzhong

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Military Officer
Official
Poet
Scholar
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died-young
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 建初中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 76 · End: AD 84
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Source Date: Text: 永元元年 · Western Year: AD 89
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Source Date: Text: 永平中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 58 · End: AD 75
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Family

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Descendant of Ancestor of Fu Yi (傅毅祖)
Kinship Term: ancestor / 祖
Child of Father of Fu Yi (傅毅父)
Kinship Term: honored father / 显考 · Parentage: biological

Career and standing

Label: Orchid Terrace clerk / 兰台令史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建初中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 76 · End: AD 84
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Label: Chief Clerk / 主记室 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永元元年 · Western Year: AD 89
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Label: Army Major / 军司马 · Action: appointed
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Label: Gentleman / 郎中 · Action: appointed
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Label: Major / 司马 · Action: appointed
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Status: dismissed · Action: suffered
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Places and affiliations

Place: Maoling in Fufeng / 扶风茂陵
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Place: Pingling / 平陵 · Relation: studied-at
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Works and attributed material

Work: Hymns for Emperor Ming / 显宗颂 · Relation: author
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Work: Poem Expressing Resolve / 迪志诗 · Relation: author
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Work: Seven Exhortations / 七激 · Relation: author
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Kind: fu · Role: author
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Kind: poem · Role: author
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Events and relationships

Kind: literary · Role: author · Action: presented-temple-hymns
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Relation: subordinate-of · Person Id: Dou Xian (窦宪)
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Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Ban Gu (班)
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Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Jia Kui (贾逵)
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Relation: protege-of · Person Id: Ma Fang (马防)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: Emperor Ming did not seek worthies earnestly enough · Provenance: Mode: self-report
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Source notes

Statement: left twenty-eight literary works including poems, fu, dirges, hymns, invocations, Seven Exhortations, and linked pearls
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References in the histories

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Book of Later Han, Chapter 89Volume 80a: Biographies of Writers 1 · 8 passages

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傅毅字武仲，扶风茂陵人也。 Fu Yi, called Wuzhong, came from Maoling in Fufeng.

毅以显宗求贤不笃，士多隐处，故作《七激》以为讽。 Fu Yi felt Emperor Ming courted talent too timidly and scholars stayed hidden, so he wrote 《Seven Exhortations》 to needle the throne.

建初中，肃宗博召文学之士，以毅为兰台令史，拜郎中，与班固、贾逵共典校书。 Midway through Jianchu, Emperor Zhang called literati widely—named Fu Yi to the Orchid Terrace, made him a gentleman, and paired him with Ban Gu and Jia Kui to collate the canon.

毅追美李明皇帝功德最盛，而庙颂未立，乃依《清庙》作《显宗颂》十篇奏之，由是文雅显于朝廷。 Fu Yi argued that Emperor Ming's deeds topped every predecessor yet lacked a temple hymn, so he echoed 《Qing Temple Ode》 in ten 《Hymns for Emperor Ming》; afterward his style dominated court letters.

车骑将军马防，外戚尊重，请毅为军司马，待以师友之礼。 Ma Fang, General of Chariots and Cavalry and favored kinsman, took Fu Yi as army chief of staff and honored him like a mentor.

永元元年，车骑将军窦宪，复请毅为主记室，崔骃为主簿。 Yongyuan 1 saw Dou Xian, General of Chariots and Cavalry, recall Fu Yi as chief clerk and name Cui Yin registrar.

及宪迁大将军，复以毅为司马，班固为中护军。 When Dou rose to Grand General, Fu Yi returned as army major while Ban Gu guarded headquarters.

毅早卒，著诗、赋、诔、颂、祝文、《七激》、连珠凡二十八篇。 Fu Yi died young, leaving verse, fu, laments, songs, prayers, 《Seven Exhortations》, and linked pearls—twenty-eight works.