Dòu Píng 竇苹
Mid-Northern-Sòng scholar and antiquarian, zì Zǐyě 子野. Native of Wènshàng 汶上 (modern Shāndōng). His career and exact lifedates are not recorded; Cháo Gōngwǔ’s 晁公武 Jùnzhāi dúshū zhì places him before Wú Zhěn 吳縝 (the famous Xīn-Tang-shū jiūmiù author), implying that he was active in the late Rénzōng to early Shénzōng period (c. 1050–1075). Cháo Gōngwǔ praises Dòu’s “jīngbó” learning (refined-and-broad).
Some recensions of his works print the name as Dòu Gǒng 竇鞏 — but the original name Píng 苹 (a kind of duckweed mentioned in the Shījīng “Lùmíng” ode Yōuyōu lù míng, shí yě zhī píng) makes sense with his zì Zǐyě (Master Wild — i.e., the yě “wild” complementing the wild-plant píng), so the Píng reading is correct.
His attested works are: (1) the Xīn-Tang-shū yīnxùn 新唐書音訓 in 4 juàn — a phonetic-and-gloss commentary on the Xīn Tang shū, predating Wú Zhěn’s much-better-known Xīn-Tang-shū jiūmiù; and (2) the Jiǔpǔ 酒譜 (KR3i0027) — a one-juàn miscellany of wine-anecdotes in the bǐjì style. The Jiǔpǔ is the principal Sòng anecdotal-collection on wine, complementing Zhū Yìzhōng’s technical KR3i0026.