Hú Hóng 胡宏 (1106–1162), zì Rénzhòng 仁仲, hào Wǔfēng xiānsheng 五峯先生, was the founder of the HúXiāng xuépài 湖湘學派 (“Hu-nan school”) of mid-Southern-Sòng Lǐxué. Native of Chóngān 崇安 (Fújiàn). Son of Hú Ānguó 胡安國 (KR3a0039 co-recorder); brother of Hú Yìn 胡寅. Took refuge from the Jīn invasion at Húnán’s Héshān 衡山 (Mt. Héng) and settled at Wǔfēngshān, where he taught — including Zhāng Shì 張栻, the principal channel of his teaching to the larger Sòng Lǐxué mainstream. The Hu-Xiāng school stands in tension with Zhū Xī’s Mǐnxué — Zhū wrote a Zhī yán yí yì 知言疑義 against Hú’s Zhī yán (KR3a0049), and the Hu-Xiāng / Mǐn divergence on xìng 性 doctrine was one of the major mid-Southern-Sòng Lǐxué doctrinal disputes. Major works: the Huáng wáng dà jì 皇王大紀 (history); the Zhī yán 知言 (KR3a0049); the Wǔfēng jí 五峯集. Biography: Sòng shǐ j. 435 (Rúlín zhuàn). CBDB id 7252, dates 1106–1162.