Yan Fu, male, original name, word spirit, later renamed Fu, word road, Han nationality, post-official of Fujian, influential bourgeois enlightenment thinker in modern times, famous translator, educator and representative of Neo-Legalism school.

He graduated from Fujian Ship Administration School and Royal Naval Academy successively, and served as director of the office of the Translation Bureau of Shi Jing University, dean of Shanghai Fudan College, dean of Anqing Teachers College, and editor-in-chief of the terminology museum in Qing Dynasty. During his teaching in Beiyang Naval Academy founded by Li Hongzhang, he trained the first batch of naval talents in modern China, translated the theory of evolution and founded the National Newspaper.

Introduce western democracy and science systematically, publicize the thought of reform and political reform, and introduce western sociology, politics, political economy, philosophy and natural science to China. Published the Complete Works of Yan Fu. 192 1 year 10 died in Langguan Lane, Fuzhou at the age of 67.

Yan Fu's translation criteria of faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance had a far-reaching impact on later translation work. He was an influential bourgeois enlightenment thinker in the late Qing Dynasty and one of the advanced China people who sought truth from the West in China's modern history.

Yan Fu's main achievements:

In the Restoration Movement, Yan Fu was a reformist thinker who opposed stubborn conservatism and advocated restoration. He not only expounded the necessity, importance and urgency of political reform, but also translated Huxley's theory of evolution, which regarded natural selection, survival of the fittest, keeping pace with the times and being better than today as the theoretical basis for saving the country, which had great influence at that time.

After the Reform Movement of 1898, he devoted himself to the translation of western bourgeois philosophy and social theory and natural science works, and was a bourgeois enlightenment thinker. Yan Fu believes in Darwin's theory of evolution and Spencer's vulgar theory of evolution. This is the theoretical basis of his political thought and educational thought.