Feng Youlan was born in tanghe county. 19 18 graduated from the philosophy department of Peking University, 19 19 entered the philosophy department of Columbia University as a graduate student, and 1923 received a doctorate in philosophy. After returning to China, he served as a professor in Zhongzhou University, Guangdong University and yenching university Philosophy Department. 1928 to 1952 was the professor and dean of the philosophy department of Tsinghua university, 1929 to 1952 was the professor and dean of the philosophy department of The National SouthWest Associated University. 1952 Professor of Philosophy Department of Peking University, member of Philosophy and Social Sciences Department of China Academy of Sciences.

Feng Youlan not only engaged in teaching for a long time, but also wrote a lot of works on philosophy and philosophy history. The Philosophy of Life, published in 1926, combines China's traditional philosophy with pragmatism and neo-realism, and puts forward a "golden mean" outlook on life. The first volume of China's Philosophy was published in 1930, and the second volume of China's Philosophy was published in 1934. There are English and Japanese translations, which have great influence at home and abroad. During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's period, he successively wrote Neo-Confucianism, Neo-realism, Neo-World Training, Neo-Primitive Man, Neo-Daoism and New Knowledge, all of which were called works in Zhenyuan period, which combined Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism with Western Neo-realism and formed a speculative philosophy system. 1946 to 1947. When he was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, he wrote A Brief History of China's Philosophy in English. 1948 was published in new york with Italian and French translations. After the founding of New China, there were one or two new volumes of the History of Philosophy of China, the first draft of historical materials of the history of philosophy of China, and many new volumes of the History of Philosophy of China.