Documents and Writing: A Textual Research on Yang Fuye’s Records

Abstract

Yang Fuye is the largest folk worship among the people in southern Zhejiang, and he has been worshiped for more than a thousand years. At present, however, there is no exact statement about who Yang Fuye is and what his deeds in his life are. There are few historical materials about Yang Fuye, posing many difficulties in the investigation of Yang Fuye. With the popularization of the database, the Chinese local chronicles library was used, and the scope was limited to Zhejiang. The historical records of Yang Fuye recorded in the local chronicles were searched, and then the inscriptions and related system history were used for textual research. It was found that there is common information about Yang Fuye. There are certain discrepancies in historical data. Combined with the exquisite records of Yang Fuye’s historical records in local chronicles and inscriptions, we hope to explore so as to have a better understanding of Yang Fuye.