Yáng Jué 楊爵 (1493–1549), zì Bóxiū 伯修, hào Húshān 斛山, posthumous title Zhōngjiè 忠介, was a mid-Míng official from Fùpíng 富平 (Xī’ān 西安, Shǎnxī 陝西) and one of the principal Jiājìng-era loyalist martyrs. He passed the jìnshì examination in Jiājìng jǐchǒu 嘉靖己丑 = 1529 and rose to Investigating Censor of the Shāndōng Circuit (Shāndōng dào jiānchá yùshǐ 山東道監察御史). In Jiājìng 20 (1541) he submitted a memorial sharply criticizing the Jiājìng emperor’s promotion of Daoist auspicious-omen reports (fúruì 符瑞), was thrown into the Imperial Prison (Zhàoyù 詔獄), and remained imprisoned for seven years (released 1547) before dying two years later. His biography is in the Míng shǐ 明史. His Zhōuyì biàn lù 周易辯錄 (KR1a0096) was composed in prison together with his fellow imprisoned ministers Zhōu Yí 周怡 and Liú Kuí 劉魁; the title alludes to the Xìcí’s phrase kùn dé zhī biàn yě 困德之辨也 (“the discrimination of virtue in straits”).