Abstract: Yan Fu is an important figure in modern Chinese history. His significance is associated with his contribution to the field of ideology and culture All through his fife, he advanced his own viewpoint about various ethos, but he is not a person who believed in overall westernization, nor one who had faith in autbority in a strict sense, nor a pure libemlist. His tboughts in a certain period can not be used as an excuse to evaluate his life. He didn't break away from the procedure of exploration to save China. In a word, Yan Fu is a thinker who made an attempt to save China by reformtion in the field of ideology and culture.