Fu Yue

Who is Fu Yue?

Fu Yue was a premier and minister from the Fu Cliffs under the Emperor Wu Ding of the Yin dynasty, who reigned BC 1324-1265.

Fu Yue was originally a slave, skilled at making walls for defense. Being unable to subscribe towards the repair of certain roads, worked upon them himself. After Wuding heard of Fu Yue, he wanted to bring him to the Imperial court, but worried that his status as a slave would have a negative effect on some of his court members. Wuding concocted a dream that Heaven sent him an able Minister; and on seeking for the man according to the features seen in the dream, Fu Yue was discovered in a workshed and received the appointment. At his death, it is said that he became the constellation known as the Sieve, one of the twenty-eight constellations of the zodiac, which forms a part of Sagittarius.