Kǒng Wénzhòng 孔文仲 (1038–1088)
Zì Jīngfù 經父. Eldest of the Qīngjiāng sān Kǒng — Wénzhòng, Wǔzhòng 武仲, and Píngzhòng 平仲 — of Xīnyú 新喻 (Línjiāngfǔ, modern Jiāngxī), descendants of the 47th generation of Confucius. Son of Kǒng Yánzhī 孔延之. Jìnshì of Jiāyòu 6 (1061). His career: rose through the Censorate and the Zhōngshū shěrén office; impeached for his outspoken opposition to the New Policies and demoted under Shénzōng; rehabilitated under Zhézōng’s Yuányòu reforms and rose to Zhōngshū shěrén before his death in Yuányòu 3 (1088). With his brothers and the Sū brothers (Shì and Zhé) he formed the literary heart of the Yuányòu circle. Huáng Tíngjiān’s famous tribute placed them as a literary pair to the Sūs: “Èr Sū liánbì, Sān Kǒng fēndǐng” 二蘇聯璧三孔分鼎. The Qīngjiāng sān Kǒng jí KR4h0029 of 1198 preserves his work in juǎn 1–2 (only 7 poems by the SKQS editor’s count, supplemented by zhìgào and other prose). CBDB has no firm entry; standard biographies and the Sòngshǐ fix the dates 1038–1088.