Fù Gōng 傅肱

Mid-Northern-Sòng pǔlù author, Zǐyì 子翼, self-styled Guàishān 怪山 (after the famous Fēilái shān 飛來山 [“Flown-Here Mountain”] at Yuèzhōu, also known as Guàishān; per Chén Zhènsūn’s Shūlù jiětí identification). Native of Kuàijī 會稽 in Shàoxīng (modern Zhèjiāng). His career and exact lifedates are not documented; CBDB has no entry.

His one surviving work, the Xièpǔ 蟹譜 (KR3i0046) — the world’s first systematic monograph on crabs — is dated by self-preface to Jiāyòu 4 (1059), but per the Sìkù editors’ analysis the date should probably be Yuányòu 4 (1089) since the work refers to events of the Shénzōng / Xīníng period (specifically the case of Zhào Gài 趙槩 being demoted to Xúzhōu in Xīníngjiā / c. 1068, which the work elaborately tabooes by name) — too late for a Rén-zōng-period work.

The traditional dating per the Shūlù jiětí and the Sìkù recensions of the preface is Jiāyòu 4 (1059); the Sìkù editors’ suggestion of Yuányòu 4 (1089) requires a single-character emendation of the preface. Either way, his fl. is in the second half of the eleventh century.