Fu Yan 傅琰

Other names

Family

• Parent of Fu Hui (傅翽)
  son 子
  grandfather 祖 · paternal line
  Sources vary in certainty · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 33; Book of Liang 42, passages 68-69
• Descendant of Fu Shao (傅邵)
  grandfather 祖 · paternal line · 2 generations · Through Fu Sengyou (傅僧祐)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 17
• Child of Fu Hongren (傅弘仁)
  great-grandfather 高祖 · paternal line · 2 generations
  Strongly inferred · Book of Liang 42, passages 67-68
• Child of Fu Sengyou (傅僧祐)
  father 父
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 18
• Child of Mother of Fu Yan
  mother 母
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 23

Career and standing

• 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
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 234
• Appointed
  Appointments Assistant Administrator of Wuxing 吳興郡丞
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 236
• 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
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 25
• Appointed
  AD 465 永光元年 · 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
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 235
• Inspector of Yizhou 益州刺史
  AD 478 昇明二年 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Song 10, passage 82
• Inspector of Yi Province 益州刺史
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 42, passage 68

Places and affiliations

• Polity Id liu-song · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Song 10, passage 82
• At Lingzhou in Beidi 北地靈州
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 16

Works and attributed material

• Register of Governing Districts 治縣譜
  Relation Family transmitter · Mode hearsay · Access kept from outsiders
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 31

Events and relationships

• Held his mother's coffin during a spreading house fire and suffered scorching until neighbors saved it
  Filial rescue
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passages 23-24
• Ordered to advance
  AD 479 to AD 480 建元元年 · Military · Commander
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 59, passage 99
• Resolved a chicken ownership dispute by examining its crop and punished the false claimant
  Legal adjudication
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 28
• Resolved a silk ownership dispute by whipping the silk and finding iron filings, then punished the sugar seller
  Legal adjudication
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 27

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment especially discerning and renowned for administrative ability · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 20
• Assessment Fu Yan and his father both had extraordinary administrative records, rarely matched south of the Yangtze · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 30
• Assessment hailed throughout the district as uncannily wise; theft ceased · Mode collective-reputation
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 29
• handsome in bearing
  Appearance · 美姿儀
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 234