Méi Fú 梅福 (zì Zǐzhēn 子真), native of Shòuchūn 壽春 in Jiǔjiāng 九江 commandery (modern Anhui), Western Han thinker and minor official. A jīnshì in classics under Emperor Chéng 漢成帝 (r. 33–7 BCE), he served as Nánchāngxiànwèi 南昌縣尉 (commandant of Nánchāng county, Yùzhāng commandery, modern Jiāngxī). During the Yángshuò 陽朔 era he repeatedly submitted memorials denouncing the political dominance of the Wángshì 王氏 imperial in-laws (Wáng Fèng 王鳳 and his kin); the memorials, which include extended quotations of Shījīng and historical exemplars and warn against the imminent loss of the dynasty, are preserved in the Hànshū j. 67 Méi Fú zhuàn and partially in the Daozang’s KR5b0305. When his counsel went unheeded he is said to have abandoned wife and family during the rise of Wáng Mǎng 王莽 and fled to the south, where, by tradition, he was last seen as a gatekeeper in Wúshì 吳市 and ultimately attained Daoist transcendence. The cult of Méi as the Shòuchūn zhēnrén 壽春真人 — invested under that title by imperial decree in Yuánfēng 5 (1082) — was centred on Méixiānguàn 梅仙觀 at Fēngchéng 豐城 (Jiāngxī) and is the subject of the KR5b0305 gazetteer.