Overview
Fu Yan was a Marquis of Kongxiang.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Attested activity
BC 7 to BC 1 哀帝之時
BC 7 to AD 5 哀帝至平帝時
Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
- Kinship Role wife and children · Quantity wife and multiple children; exact count unstated
Career and standing
- grand marshal and general of the guards 大司馬衛將軍
Specially Advanced 特進
Marquis of Kongxiang 孔鄉侯
Held
- Marquis of Kongxiang 孔鄉侯
Marquis of Kongxiang 孔鄉侯
Places and affiliations
- At Hepu 合浦 · Relation Relocated to · Companions wife and children
References in the histories
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Book of Han, Chapter 93Volume 82: Wang Shang, Shi Dan and Fu Xi · 2 passages
Book of Han, Chapter 94Volume 83: Xue Xuan and Zhu Bo · 9 passages
孔鄉侯傅晏亦太后從弟，諂諛欲順指，會博新徵用為京兆尹，與交結，謀成尊號，以廣孝道。
Her cousin Fu Yan of Kongxiang toadied to her; Zhu Bo, newly named metropolitan governor, allied with Yan to push the title through in the name of filial piety.
傅太后怨傅喜不已，使孔鄉侯晏風丞相，令奏免喜侯。
Grand Empress Dowager Fu still hated Fu Xi and sent Fu Yan to lean on the chancellor to memorialize for stripping Fu Xi of his title.
博曰：「已許孔鄉侯有指。
Zhu Bo replied, "I gave Fu Yan my word.
宣等劾奏：「博宰相，玄上卿，晏以外親封位特進，股肱大臣，上所信任，不思竭誠奉公，務廣恩化，為百寮先，皆知喜、武前已蒙恩詔決，事更三赦，博執正道，虧損上恩，以結信貴戚，背君鄉臣，傾亂政治，奸人之雄，附下罔上，為臣不忠不道；
Peng Xuan and the others impeached them, saying: "Zhu Bo is chancellor, Zhao Xuan is an upper minister, and Yan, as an outside relative, holds enfeoffed rank as Specially Advanced. They are great ministers, arms and thighs of the state, trusted by the sovereign, yet they did not think to exhaust loyalty in serving the public, broaden grace and transformation, and lead the hundred offices. They all knew that Xi and Wu had already received a merciful edict and decision, and that the matter had passed through three amnesties. Bo abandoned the straight Way and damaged the sovereign's grace in order to bind trust with honored in-laws; he turned his back on the ruler and faced the ministers, overturned and disordered government, became a champion among wicked men, attached himself below and deceived above. As a minister he is disloyal and without the Way;
晏與博議免喜，失禮不敬。
Fu Yan conspired with Zhu Bo to ruin Fu Xi—another breach of propriety.
臣請詔謁者召博、玄、晏詣廷尉詔獄。」
We ask that Zhu Bo, Zhao Xuan, and Fu Yan be taken to the imperial prison under the commandant of justice."
今晏放命圯族，干亂朝政，要大臣以罔上，本造計謀，職為亂階，宜與博、玄同罪，罪皆不道。」
Fu Yan defied the throne, stirred the court, extorted senior ministers, and hatched the plot—he should share Zhu Bo and Zhao Xuan's guilt; all three are guilty of capital disloyalty."
上減玄死罪三等，削晏戶四分之一，假謁者節召丞相詣廷尉詔獄。
The emperor commuted Zhao Xuan's death sentence three steps, trimmed Fu Yan's fief by a quarter, and sent the usher with credentials to take Zhu Bo into the imperial prison.
世主已更，好惡異前，復附丁、傅稱順孔鄉。
A new emperor brought new tastes; Zhu Bo hitched himself to the Ding and Fu clans and echoed Fu Yan.
Book of Han, Chapter 96Volume 85: Gu Yong and Du Ye · 1 passage
Book of Later Han, Chapter 31Volume 28a: Biographies of Huan Tan; Feng Yan · 4 passages