104 years ago today, October 27, 1921 (September 27, 1921, the lunar calendar), the thinker Yan Fu passed away. Yan Fu On October 27, 1921, Yan Fu, a modern thinker, writer and translator in my country, passed away. Yan Fu was originally named Zongguang, the word Youling, and the word Jidao. Later, he was called Yuye Old Man. Born in 1853. A native of Hou Guan, Fujian (now Fuzhou). In 1866, he was admitted to Fuzhou Shipbuilding School to study the Navy. In 1877, he went to England to study. He graduated and returned to China in 1879 and served as a teacher at the Fujian Shipbuilding School. In 1880, he served as chief instructor of the Tianjin Navy Academy and in 1889, he served as chief administrator. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 - 1894, he published an article in Zhi Bao, advocating reform and reform. In 1897,"Guo Wen Bao" was founded in Tianjin and co-organized with Tongyi School. During the Hundred Days Reform in 1898, he participated in hundreds of words to the Qing Emperor and proposed specific program for the reform. In 1900, he served as Vice Chairman of the China National Assembly of Shanghai Tang Caichang Initiative. In 1902, he served as the chief executive of the Translation and Publishing Company of the Capital University, the chief editor of the terminology department of the academic department, and a member of the Council of Ministers. From 1896 to 1908, he successively translated "Tianyan Lun","Yuan Fu","Qun Xue Yan","Fa Yi","Muller Mingxue", etc. After the Revolution of 1911, thinking tended to be conservative and retrogressive and did not approve of the democratic revolutionary movement. In 1915, he served as a director of the "Chouan Association". In his later years, he advocated respecting Confucius and reading the scriptures and opposed the "May 4th" Movement. He died of illness in Fuzhou on October 27, 1921. The compilations include "Yu Fantang's Poetry Collection","Yan Jidao's Poetry Notes","Hou Guan Yan's Collection","Yan's Translation of Famous Works", etc.