A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Fu Hsüan

by Herbert A. Giles

586 Fu Hsüan 傅玄 (T. 休奕). Died A.D. 278. A scholar and statesman who rose to be Censor and Chamberlain under the Emperor Wu Ti of the Chin dynasty. He was of such an impatient disposition that whenever he had any memorial or impeachment to submit, he would proceed at once to the palace, no matter at what hour of the day or night, and sit there until audience at the following dawn. It was while thus waiting that he caught the chill of which he died. Canonised as 剛.