Kǒng Píngzhòng 孔平仲 (fl. 1065–1100; lifedates not securely known), zì Yìfǔ 毅父 (alt. 義甫). Native of Qīngjiāng 清江 (modern Yīngtán, Jiāngxī). One of the Qīngjiāng sān Kǒng 清江三孔 (three Kǒng brothers, with elder brothers Kǒng Wénzhòng 孔文仲 and Kǒng Wǔzhòng 武仲); all three were jìnshì and major Northern Sòng literary figures. Zhìpíng 2 (1065) jìnshì. Career: Tídiǎn Jīngxī xíngyù; banished to Yīngzhōu 英州 under the Yuányòu dǎng bēi purge of 1102; recalled briefly as Hùbù jīnbù lángzhōng and Tíjǔ Yǒngxīnglù xíngyù; final demotion to sinecure-status. Aligned with Sū Shì and the Shǔ dǎng (Sìchuān faction) against Chéng Yí 程頤 and the Luò dǎng in the Yuányòu faction-debate — for which the later Lǐxué tradition treated him harshly. Compiler of the Héng huáng xīn lùn / Kǒngshì zá shuō 孔氏雜說 (KR3j0095), the Tán yuàn 談苑, and a substantial poetry-and-prose collection.