Fāng Féngchén 方逢辰 (1221–1291), original name Mèngkuí 夢魁, zì Jūnxī 君錫, hào Jiāofēng 蛟峰, was a late-Sòng zhuàngyuán 狀元, court official, and Sòng-loyalist refuser. A native of Chúnʼān 淳安 (Yánzhōu 嚴州, modern Zhèjiāng), he placed first in the jìnshì examination of Chúnyòu 10 (1250); Lǐzōng 理宗 himself conferred on him the new given-name “Féngchén” in lieu of “Mèngkuí”.
He served in a series of central and provincial offices, rising to Vice-Minister of the Board of Personnel (吏部侍郎). His tenure spanned the chancellorships of Dīng Dàquán 丁大全 and Jiǎ Sìdào 賈似道, against both of whom he submitted memorials. His most consequential submissions — the Bǎoyòu 3 (1255) memorial requesting the dismissal of eunuchs (請除內豎), and the later memorials on the thunder-omen, on border defense, and on Wú Qián’s removal and Jiǎ Sìdào’s concealment of the late-1250s defeats — established his reputation as one of the most upright voices of mid–late-Lǐzōng politics. He held the regional posts of Circuit Investigator of Justice for Western Sìchuān (川東提㸃刑獄) and Vice Transport-Commissioner of Jiāngxī (江西轉運副使), both with administrative distinction.
He returned home on mourning leave for his mother in the late Sòng. Early in the Déyòu period (1275) he was named Minister of Rites (禮部尚書), but his father’s illness prevented him from taking up the post; the Sòng then fell. After the conquest, Yuán Shìzǔ in 1276 or 1277 dispatched Censor-in-Chief Cuī Yù 崔彧 to summon him out from retirement; Féngchén firmly declined on grounds of illness. He spent the remainder of his life as a recluse and teacher at his family-academy on Jiāofēng 蛟峰 in Chúnʼān, dying in 1291 at age 71. Because his official-conduct file was unavailable when the Yuán compiled the Sòngshǐ, no biography was made for him there; the principal Yuán-era source is Huáng Jìn’s 黃溍 mùbiǎo 墓表. His surviving works are gathered in the eight-juàn Jiāofēng wénjí 蛟峰文集 KR4d0387 (with four-juàn wàijí) compiled by descendants in the Míng. CBDB id 3294 records 1221–1291, followed here.