Liú Cìzhuāng 劉次莊 (fl. early 12th century, fl. dates 1092–1102 per the Kanripo catalog), zì Zhōngsǒu 中叟, was a Northern Sòng official and calligraphy connoisseur of Chángshā 長沙 (Húnán). He passed his jìnshì in the early Yuányòu era (ca. 1086–1093), held a censorial post (yùshǐ 御史) during the Chóngníng era (1102–1106), and lived in retirement at Línjiāng 臨江 (modern Qīngjiāng 清江, Jiāngxī). His Línjiāng studio the Xìyútáng 戲魚堂 (Studio of Playing Fish, named after the Yī jīng hexagram Wèijì 未濟) gave its name to the famous Xìyútáng tiè 戲魚堂帖 — a calligraphic-model anthology Liú cut into stone in the Yuányòu era based on his family copy of the Chúnhuà gétiè 淳化閣帖, with the original juan-end zhuàn (seal-script) headings stripped out and a new shìwén 釋文 (small-kǎi transcription gloss) added beside each piece. This was the prototype of the fǎtiè shìwén genre. Liú’s Fǎtiè shìwén KR2n0015 in the WYG copy is a later compilation of these glosses extracted from the Xìyútáng tiè into a separate book. Cèng Mǐnxíng’s 曾敏行 Dúxǐng zázhì 獨醒雜志 records that Liú had a passion for calligraphy from childhood. CBDB 1244 confirms the figure but lacks dates.