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Fu Liang
Statesman of late Jin and early Liu Song, courtesy name Jiyou, who drafted the Jin abdication edict for Liu Yu and was executed in 426.
In a council hall, a long table holds an unrolled map scroll, a brass-cornered chest and a brush pot, with tall-backed chairs around it and a bronze lamp at the left; a figure stands with their back turned on the balcony at the right, with palace roofs beyond.
Also known as Jiyou
Fu Liang, courtesy name Jiyou, was from Lingzhou in Beidi and lived from 374 to 426. After serving Huan Xuan and Meng Chang, he entered the Jin secretariat in 405 and handled imperial edicts; in 420 he drafted the abdication decree by which Emperor Gong of Jin yielded to Liu Yu. He became Director of the Secretariat and one of the regents named by Liu Yu. In 424 he joined Xu Xianzhi and Xie Hui in deposing Emperor Shao, and in 426 Emperor Wen had him executed. A fluent prose writer, he left a lost 31-volume collection, and several pieces are in the Wen xuan.
Life and times
Dates 374 CE–426 CE