Writings
According to the biography of his in the Book of Jin, Fu Xuan wrote "文集百余巻" and Fu Zi (傅子) 120 books, however only a small fraction of his books survived to this day. According to the Fu Zi (傅子) books, which survived only in the form of annotations of Records of the Three Kingdoms by Pei Songzhi, Fu Xuan had negative views on the people from the Sima Zhao's close personal to anti-Sima Zhao people like Cao Shuang. Fu Zi contains many poems, these poems are of songs, depicted the feelings of women.
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