Hóng Hào 洪皓 (1088–1155), zì Guāngbì 光弼, posthumously canonized Zhōngxuān 忠宣, was a Southern-Sòng official from Póyáng 鄱陽 (modern Jiāngxī). He took the jìnshì in Zhènghé 5 (1115). In the early-Jiànyán crisis after the Jīn capture of Bīanjīng, he was appointed Drafter of the Huīyóu Pavilion 徽猷閣待制 with the temporary rank of Vice Director of Ceremonies (lǐbù shàngshū 禮部尚書) and despatched in Jiànyán 3 (1129) as Sòng “Inquiry Envoy” to the Jīn — nominally to negotiate the return of the captured emperors. Refusing to take office under the Jīn-installed puppet Liú Yù 劉豫 of Qí 齊, he was banished to Lěng Mountain 冷山 (some 100 lǐ from the Jīn supreme capital), and then to Yānjīng 燕京. After fifteen years’ captivity he was returned to Sòng in 1143; his refusal to bow to Qín Huì 秦檜’s appeasement policy led to demotion and assignment to Yīngzhōu 英州, where he died in 1155. He was posthumously restored as Academician of the Huīyóu Pavilion and canonized Zhōngxuān 忠宣. His record is in the Sòngshǐ (juǎn 373). His fifteen years’ captivity in the Jīn realm produced the Sōngmò jìwén 松漠紀聞 KR2e0012, the principal Sòng-period firsthand record of the Jīn court and its peripheries. He is also the father of three of the most distinguished mid-Southern-Sòng scholars and officials: 洪适 (1117–1184), 洪遵 (1120–1174), and 洪邁 (1123–1202, author of the Yíjiān zhì 夷堅志 and the Róngzhāi suíbǐ 容齋隨筆).