A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Fu Yao-yü

by Herbert A. Giles

603 Fu Yao-yü 傅堯俞 (T. 欽之). A.D. 1024-1091. An upright official of the Sung dynasty, and a vigorous opponent of the reforms of Wang An-shih, for which opposition he was banished to act as a superintendent of pastures. At his death, the Empress said, “Truly he was a perfect man, as it were of gold or jade!”