171 years ago today, on January 8, 1854 (December 10, 1853 lunar calendar), Yan Fu, the translator of "Evolution", was born. Yan Fu, the translator of "Evolution", was born on January 8, 1854. Modern Chinese Enlightenment thinker and translator. The first name was passed down at the beginning, and he changed his name to Zong Guang, and his character was also Ling, who was a Hou Guan of Fujian (now Hou Min). He graduated from the first class of Fuzhou Ship Administration School, and later studied at the British Naval School. In 1880 (the sixth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty), he served as the general teacher of the Beiyang Navy School, and was later promoted to the general office. After the Sino-Japanese War, he published articles such as "On the Urgent Change of the World", "Yuan Qiang", "Peihan", and "The Decision on Salvation", opposing stubborn conservatism and advocating reform and reform. Expose and criticize Cheng Zhu's "reason is the first" and Lu Wang's "conscience and conscience". Translating "Evolution of Heaven", with the argument of "natural selection, survival of the fittest", called on people to save the nation and "compete with heaven to win", which had a great impact on the ideological circle at that time. But it also promoted the vulgar theory of evolution and the idealist views such as "it is a real person, not an illusion, but only a will". He once hosted the "National News Daily" co-organized the General Arts School. After the Wuxu Reformation, he translated "Yuan Fu", "Group Learning", "Fa Yi", "Mill Mingxue", etc., and spread the Western bourgeois political and economic thought and logic. For the first time, the translation standard of "letter, achievement and elegance" was proposed. After the Revolution of 1911, the ideology became increasingly conservative. In 1913, it was listed and launched the "Confucius Church, and in 1915 it was listed" in the Chiao'an Association. The works are translated and edited as "Hou Guan Yan's Series" and "Yan Yi Famous Works Series".