Yuán-period 元 Jiāngxī polymath: commentator on the Yì, Shū, Yùnpǔ, Liùshū; Tōngjiàn-classical exegete; prose-stylist. Zì Tàixū 太虛. Native of Lèān 樂安 in Fǔzhōu 撫州 (Jiāngxī) — the same county as Wú Chéng 吳澄 KR4d0446 (his biǎodì / cousin-relation). CBDB 35415 records 1265–1332.
Works (per Hé’s self-preface):
Surviving in the Sìkù:
- Tōngjiàn gāngmù cèhǎi 通鑑綱目測海 (3 juàn) — separately catalogued
- Tōngshū wèn 通書問 (1 juàn) — separately catalogued
- Zhīfēitáng gǎo 知非堂稿 (6 juàn remnant from original 17+16 = 33 juàn) — KR4d0483
Lost:
- Shūzhuàn bǔyí 書傳補遺 (10 juàn; Sìkù jīngbù listing)
- Yì lèixiàng 易類象 (3 juàn)
- Wú Cáilǎo Yèyùn bǔyí 吳才老叶韻補遺 (1 juàn)
- Liùshū gānglǐng 六書綱領 (1 juàn)
- Bǔ Liùshūgù 補六書故 (32 juàn) — major Yuán-period Chinese-character-classification scholarship
- Sūqiū shùyóu lù 蘇丘述遊錄 (1 juàn)
- Zhīyí lù 搘頤錄 (10 juàn)
Reception. Wú Chéng’s preface to the Zhīfēitáng gǎo (Zhìshùn 2 = 1331, one year before Hé’s death) places Hé Zhōng in the HànSòng eight-masters prose-tradition — evaluating him as having “reached” the Hàn-master level. A remarkable late-life endorsement from the major Yuán Confucian patriarch.
Within the Kanripo corpus. KR4d0483 Zhīfēitáng gǎo 知非堂稿 (撰).