Northern-Sòng councillor and cí-master, zì Tóngshū 同叔, posthumous Yuánxiàn 元獻, of Línchuān 臨川 (Jiāngxī). Child prodigy: summoned at age 14 in Jǐngdé 1 / 1004 and granted jìnshì status by Zhēnzōng. Rose through the Hànlín and Shūmì offices to Jíxián diàn dàxuéshì tóng píngzhāngshì (Zǎixiàng) under Rénzōng in Qìnglì 4 / 1044. Patron of the Qìnglì reform generation: presided over the examinations that produced Fàn Zhòngyān 范仲淹, Ōuyáng Xiū 歐陽修, Hán Qí 韓琦, Fù Bì 富弼; sponsored their early careers. The canonical first-generation Sòng master of the xiǎolìng 小令 cí tradition; father of Yàn Jǐdào 晏幾道, also a major cí poet. His original 240-juǎn literary collection was almost entirely lost; what survives is the small Yuánxiàn yíwén KR4d0016 (1 juǎn) — a Kāngxī-era gleaning by Hú Yìtáng 胡亦堂 — together with his cí preserved in anthology. CBDB id 2073, lifedates 991–1055.