Yuán Hǎowèn 元好問 (1190–1257), zì Yùzhī 裕之, hào Yíshān 遺山 (“Remnant of the Mountains”), native of Xiùróngxiāng 秀容鄉 in Xīnzhōu 忻州 (modern Shānxī), descended from the Xianbei Tuōbá 拓拔 clan converted to the surname Yuán by the Northern Wèi. The foremost Jīn-dynasty literary figure — poet, historian, anthologist — and one of the canonical Chinese poets of the second millennium. Adopted by his uncle Yuán Gé 元格 (a long-time Jīn local administrator); studied under Hǎo Tiāntǐng 郝天挺. A Xiántóngjí (re-classified as jìnshì) of Jīn Xīngdìng 5 (1221) at age 32, on Zhào Bǐngwén’s 趙秉文 recommendation. Held office under Āizōng’s reign as Magistrate of Chénliú, Nèixiāng, and Nányáng; rose to Shàngshūshěng yuánwàiláng and Hànlín zhīzhìgào. Held in Kāifēng through the Mongol siege of 1232; on the Jīn dynasty’s fall in 1234 he was briefly held captive at Liáochéng in the Yán Shí 嚴實 family compound, then permitted to retire to his native Xiùróngxiāng and to his uncle’s grave-site, where at the Yěshǐtíng 野史亭 (“Wild-History Pavilion”) he composed the Rénjīn lèi and the Nánguān lù manuscript histories of the Jīn dynasty (both lost as discrete works but absorbed by the Yuán-period Tuōtuō Jīnshǐ compilers). For the next twenty-three years he refused all Yuán-state appointment and supported himself by composing bēizhìmíng and xíngzhuàng for late-Jīn-and-post-conquest figures on commission. Major works: the Yíshān jí KR4d0420 in 40 juàn; the Zhōngzhōu jí 中州集 (anthology of 109 Jīn poets); the Zhōngzhōu yuèfǔ 中州樂府 (cí-anthology); the Xù Yíjiān zhì 續夷堅志 (continuation of Hóng Mài’s Yíjiān zhì) KR3l0026; the Lùnshī juéjù 論詩絕句 in 30 pieces (the foundational Jīn-period poetics document). CBDB person 10074. Yuánshǐ j. 192.