Hú Cìyàn 胡次焱 (1229–1306), zì Jìdǐng 濟鼎, hào Méiyán 梅巖, late hào Yúxué 餘學, was a late-Sòng jìnshì of Wùyuán 婺源 (Huīzhōu 徽州) and one of the locally venerated Sòng-loyalist refusers of the Huīzhōu region. His family carried a genealogical legend of Táng-imperial descent: an ancestor of the Táng imperial house had reportedly been raised in the Hú household during the chaos of the Five Dynasties, and the family had adopted the Hú surname.
Hú passed the jìnshì examination in Xiánchún 4 (1268) and was appointed Defender of Guìchí County (Guìchí xiànwèi 貴池縣尉). When Yuán troops reached Guìchí in Déyòu 1 (1275) and the marshal Zhāng Lín 張林 surrendered the town, Hú took his elderly mother on his back and fled home to Wùyuán, where he spent the remaining thirty years of his life teaching the local young. He refused all Yuán solicitations and was buried in Wùyuán in Dàdé 大德 10 (1306). CBDB 27829 records 1229–1306.
In addition to his own poetry, prose, and fù — preserved in the Míng-compiled Méiyán wénjí 梅巖文集 KR4d0393 — Hú produced supplementary annotations (Zhuìjiān 贅箋) to the Táng Quatrains selection of Zhào Fān 趙蕃 (Zhāngquán 章泉) and Hán Hù 韓淲 (Jiànquán 澗泉) as already annotated by Xiè Fāngdé 謝枋得 (Diéwēng 疊翁); this work is now lost. His best-known surviving pieces are the Xuěméi fù 雪梅賦 (Plum-in-the-Snow rhapsody) and the Méilí wèndá shī 媒嫠問答詩 (Matchmaker-and-Widow Question-Answer poem), both functioning as transparent allegories of loyalist refusal in dialogue with the yímín literature of his generation. He is grouped with the WùyuánHuīzhōu Cǎo (Cáo) Hóngzhāi 曹弘齋 and Chén Dìngyǔ 陳定宇 (Chén Lì 陳櫟) circle as a defender of ChéngZhū lǐxué under Yuán rule.