Wú Zǐliáng 吳子良, zì Míngfǔ 明輔, hào Jīngxī 荊溪, was a native of Línhǎi 臨海 (modern Tāizhōu 台州, Zhèjiāng). CBDB id 14293 gives his birth as 1197 and his floruit-latest as 1256; the death year is not preserved. Jìnshì of Bǎoqìng 寶慶 2 (1226). His official career took him to Húnán yùnshǐ 湖南運使 (Fiscal Intendant of Húnán) and Tàifǔ shàoqīng 太府少卿 (Vice-Director of the Court of the Imperial Treasury). He was a disciple of Yè Shì 葉適 (1150–1223), the leader of the Yǒngjiā 永嘉 school of gōnglì 功利 (“utility-statecraft”) philosophy, and his lifelong literary loyalties run through that affiliation: his Jīngxī línxià ǒután 荊溪林下偶談 KR4i0039 reads at every turn as an apology for Yè Shì’s poetics and prose style and an attack on the Late-Táng affectations of the Yǒngjiā 永嘉 sìlíng 四靈 school and their successors among the jiānghú poets. He is mentioned by Chén Lì 陳櫟 (1252–1334) in Qínyǒutáng suílù 勤有堂隨錄 alongside Chén Qíqīng 陳耆卿 (Yúnchuāng 筠窓, zì Shòulǎo 壽老) as the two principal literary heirs of Yè Shì. His separate Jīngxī jí 荊溪集 is lost; only a single quatrain on the sunflower (葵花) survives, preserved in Chén Jǐngyí’s 陳景沂 Quánfāng bèizǔ qiánjí 全芳備祖前集 KR3l0014.