Late Northern-Sòng / early Southern-Sòng poet (fl. late Xuānhé through Shàoxīng; active c. 1120–1160), zì Shèngqiú 聖求, of Jiāxīng 嘉興. Chén Zhènsūn 陳振孫’s Shūlù jiětí gives his name as Wèilǎo 渭老, but Zhào Shīshàn 趙師㞧’s preface to his Shèngqiú cí dated Jiādìng rénshēn (1212) writes Bīnlǎo 濱老, which the Sìkù tíyào takes as authoritative. Lǚ achieved high reputation as a shī-poet during the late Northern Sòng; his “anxious-for-the-state” (yōuguó), “grief-bereft” (tòngshāng), and “release-of-anger” (shìfèn) shī, composed at the captivity of Huīzōng and Qīnzōng in 1127, were widely circulated. The couplet shàngxǐ shānhé guī dìzǐ, kělián mílù rù wánggōng 尚喜山河歸帝子，可憐麋鹿入王宫 shows him still alive at the southern crossing. His shī corpus was incomplete by Shīshàn’s day (1212); his cí (some 134 pieces in the Quán Sòng cí) survive in the one-juǎn Shèngqiú cí KR4j0017, descending through Máo Jìn 毛晉’s Sòng-cut text. Yáng Shèn 楊慎’s Cí pǐn rates his Wàng hǎi cháo, Zuì pénglái, Pū húdié jìn, Xī fēn chāi, Bó xìng, Xuǎn guānzǐ, Bǎi yí jiāo “not below Qín Shàoyóu 秦觀” and his Dōng fēng dìyī zhī · Yǒng méi “not below Sū Shì 蘇軾’s Lǜmáo yāofèng.” Lǚ is conventionally read as a key transitional figure between the gélǜ tradition of Zhōu Bāngyàn 周邦彥 and the post-1127 patriot-cí line of Zhāng Yuángàn 張元幹 and Yuè Fēi 岳飛.