Gōngsūn Hóng 公孫弘 (200–121 BCE), zì Jì 季 (or Cìqīng 次卿), was a leading Western Hàn statesman and the first commoner-born bóshì to rise to the chancellorship. Native of Zīchuān 菑川 (Shāndōng). Recommended at age 60 in Yuánguāng 1 (134 BCE); rose to Chéngxiàng (Chancellor) under Wǔdì in Yuánshuò 5 (124 BCE). Major patron of the Wǔdì-period Confucianisation of the imperial court. Biography: Shǐjì j. 112, Hàn shū j. 58. The Kanripo catalog and SKQS use the form 公孫宏 (taboo-substituted 弘 → 宏 under Qiánlóng); the personal name is 弘. He is traditionally credited with the jiě (commentary) of the Wòjī jīng 握奇經 (KR3b0001), but the SKQS tíyào judges this attribution apocryphal — the Hàn shū yìwén zhì records no such commentary by him.