Cháo Gōngsù 晁公遡 (Sòng, fl. mid-12th c.)
Zì Zǐxī 子西. Native of Jùyě 鉅野 (in modern Shāndōng), of the great Cháo lineage of Northern Sòng biéjí writers (cousin/uncle/brother lines: Cháo Bǔzhī 晁補之, Cháo Yuèzhī 晁說之, Cháo Yǒngzhī 晁詠之). Younger brother of the bibliographer Cháo Gōngwǔ 晁公武, the compiler of [[KR3a0017|Jùnzhāi dúshū zhì]]; their grandfather was Cháo Jiǒng 晁迥. By Cháo Gōngsù’s generation the family had long settled in Sìchuān.
No biography in the Sòng shǐ; lifedates not in CBDB (id 10878). The Sìkù editors reconstruct his career from internal references in his own Sōngshān jí KR4d0206:
- Liángshānjūn Liángshānxiàn wèi 梁山軍梁山縣尉 (early posting; signed as Zuǒ Dígōngláng).
- Fúzhōu jūnshì pànguān 涪州軍事判官 (Fúzhōu, Sìchuān).
- Shīzhōu tōngpàn 施州通判 (vice-prefect of Shīzhōu, in Shàoxīng 30 / 1160).
- Zhī Méizhōu 知眉州 (prefect of Méizhōu, in bǐngxū / Qiándào 2 / 1166).
- A Tíxíng (provincial-justice surveillance) post of unidentified location, by which his disciple Shī Xuán 師璿 styles him Bùshǐzhě in the 1168 preface to his collected works.
Lǐ Xīnchuán’s Cháoyě zájì preserves substantial citations from his lost Jīshān rìjì 箕山日記.
Surviving in Kanripo:
- KR4d0206 Sōngshān jí (54 juǎn, WYG; the only complete surviving Cháo-lineage biéjí of his generation, though Cháo Gōngwǔ’s own Zhāodé wénjí is lost).
CBDB id 10878 (no dates).