Fu Xian, Fu Xian Chronicle

Fu Xuan and Fu Xian, branches of the Fu clan family in Beidi, both were politicians, writers and thinkers in Wei and Jin Dynasty and had wide and deep influence on the time and afterworld.Fu Xuan, born in Later Han Dynasty, was Zhuzuolang in Cao Wei and then became a devoted founder of Western Jin Dynasty. In his youth, metaphysical talking of Zhengshi was prevalent but he was not confused by the current popularity and devoted himself seeking the theory and method to the practical problems. He was a prolific writer. Fu Zi was a classic with substantial content and broad thinking and Fu Xuan Ji, with abundance of materials and diversity of styles, carried on the legacy of Jian’an and deeply influenced the stylistic transformation of Western Jin.Fu Xian, son of Fu Xuan, was also a loyal like his father in Western Jin and he was famous for his outstanding loyalty. Concerning literature writing, his works distinctively showed the pure features of Confucianism and it was his conscious pursuit. His Qi Jing Poetry initiated the Ji Ju poetry and“Fu Xian style”was also outstanding in Chinese literature.This chronicle, based on prior achievement, plans to reorganize relative documents as much as possible and carry on further research. This thesis contains two parts:The first part is the study of Fu Xuan and Fu Xian, including studies of the clan family, the relationship of that era and the works concerned. Each study contains basic reorganized documents and places particular emphasis on certain subjects, such as the political relationship of the large and influential clan families of Beidi, the social intercourse of Fu Xuan and Fu Xian and ideology study of FU Zi and the discrimination of“Fu Xuan style”. Particular attentions are paid on the discuss of the essence of the thinking in Fu Zi and the discrimination of “Fu Xuan style”.The second part is the chronicle of Fu Xuan and Fu Xian. In this section, this thesis plans to examine the materials, rationalize the life trace of Fu Xuan and Fu Xian, rationalize the life trace of relative personages of Fu Xuan and Fu Xian based on textual research. To achieve this, certain research techniques are adopted, such as documentcollecting, close reading and comparative analysis, mutual reflection of literature and history, and macroscopic and microscopic method. This chronicle makes full use of documents of Fu Xuan and Fu Xian and aims to lay a preliminary groundwork for a further study.