born in 1933, is a famous architectural historian, cultural relic appraisal expert, and a follower of Mr. Qi Gong.

Fu Xinian, born in 1933, is a famous architectural historian, cultural relic appraisal expert, and a follower of Mr. Qi Gong. He graduated from the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University in 1955. He is currently an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, a member of the Science and Technology Committee of Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, a researcher of the Institute of Architecture History of the China Academy of Building Technology, a member of the National Ancient Books Collection and Publication Planning Group, a member of the National Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee, and council member of the Archaeological Society of China, and part-time professor of School of Architecture, Tsinghua University. He has been engaged in research of Chinese architectural history, focusing on the planning, layout techniques and building design rules of ancient Chinese cities, palaces, altar temples and other large architectural complexes. With the modulus law already understood, he made a restoration research on a series of architectural relics of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Warring States Period, the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty. Nearly 30 papers have been published and compiled into Fu Xinian's Papers Collection of Architectural History. He also completed the second volume of the five-volume History of Ancient Chinese Architecture, i.e. Architecture History of the Period of the Three Kingdoms, Western and Eastern Jin Dynasties, Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties and the Research on Ancient Chinese Urban Planning, Architectural Complex Layout and Architectural Design Methods. He was the editor-in-chief of Paintings in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties: Volume I and Volume II and Paintings in the Yuan Dynasty in the Complete Works of Chinese Fine Arts·Painting.