You Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Shell (bèi) Fu Kangxi Dictionary strokes: 15 Page 1210, Entry 03 Pronounced fu (falling tone) To levy or extract. Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters): To collect or gather. Erya (Approaching Elegance), Shiyan (Explaining Words): Fu means to estimate or assess. Commentary: Fu tax is that which is used to measure and assess. Yangzi Fangyan (Regional Dialects of Master Yang): Fu means to disturb or agitate. Commentary: Fu collection is that which is used to disturb the common people. Classic of History (Shujing), Yu Gong (Tribute of Yu): The taxes there are classified as the highest grade and collected through a system of interchanged levies. Commentary: Fu refers to that which is produced by the land and used to provide offerings to the Son of Heaven. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Heaven Officials, Great Minister: Using eight regulations to govern the capital and rural areas, the fifth is the tribute tax, used to control expenses. Commentary: Fu is the money collected in proportion to the population. Book of Han (Hanshu), Treatise on Law and Finance: Within a thousand miles of the capital, there are both taxes and levies; taxes are used to satisfy the need for grain, and levies are used to satisfy military needs. Commentary: Fu refers to the collection of taxes and the hoarding of wealth. Also, according to Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes), it means to receive or to bestow. Book of Rites (Liji), Doctrine of the Mean (Zhongyong): What is decreed by Heaven is called nature. Commentary: Nature is what a person receives from Heaven. Zhu Xi Commentary: Vital energy congeals to form the physical body, and the principle is simultaneously bestowed within it. Also means to promulgate. Classic of Poetry (Shijing), Daya (Greater Odes): Clear orders make men promulgate them. Commentary: Fu means to promulgate. Jianshu: To cause the subjects to execute and promulgate it. Also means to narrate or spread out. Classic of Poetry (Shijing), Zhounan, Guanju Preface: Poetry contains six principles, the second of which is called fu. Subcommentary: The meaning of fu is to narrate; it directly narrates the goodness or badness of the politics and teachings of the present day. Ban Gu, Preface to the Two Capitals Rhapsody (Liangdu Fu): The rhapsody (fu) is a tributary stream of the ancient poetry. Also, to present a scholar is called fu. Book of Han (Hanshu), Biography of Chao Cuo: Thereupon, he caused the minister Chao Cuo to serve as a fu. Commentary: Ru Chun said: It is like saying to make up the numbers. Chen Zan said: It is like the allocation of taxes.