Fu Yue ("Mentor Yue"[1]), also known as Hou Que (侯雀; Hóu Què, "Lord Sparrow"), was an official who served as minister from Fuyan (present-day Pinglu County, Shanxi) under the king Wu Ding 武丁 of the Shang 商 dynasty, who reigned around c. 1250–c.

According to the Records of the Historian,[3] Wu Ding dreamt he would obtain a sage person named Yue 說, and dispatched his officials throughout his reign to find him according to the features seen in the dream, Fu Yue was discovered in a workshed and received the appointment.

The life is also narrated in the voice of minister Bai Gong Zi Chang (白公子張) in the Guoyu.

[5][6] The Shangshu chapter "Yue ming" 說命 represents a dialogue between Wu Ding and Fu Yue; Yan Ruoqu 閻若璩 demonstrated that this chapter is one of the 25 that he believed were created by Mei Ze (Fl.

[9] While initial claims were made that this represents the "real" (zhenzheng 真正) chapter "Yue ming" originally belonging to the Shangshu and later replaced by Mei Ze,[10][11] this seems unlikely for several reasons, among which: This Chinese biographical article is a stub.