Hú Cuìzhōng 胡粹中
Early-Míng Yuán-history scholar. Original name Yóu 由; styled by his zì Cuìzhōng 粹中. Native of Shānyīn 山陰 (modern Shàoxīng 紹興, Zhèjiāng). Lifedates undocumented. CBDB id 555893 confirms Míng dynasty.
Held office in the Yǒnglè era (1402–1424) as Chǔfǔ chángshǐ 楚府長史 (Senior Counsel to the Chǔwáng princely household at Wǔchāng). His sole surviving work is the Yuán shǐ xù biān 元史續編 (KR2b0036) in 16 juǎn — a continuation-cum-supplement to the official Yuán shǐ (compiled in early Míng under Sòng Lián and Wáng Yī, 1370). Hú’s premise: the Yuán shǐ was rushed in compilation and is detailed on the pre-Shìzǔ wars but sketchy on the post-Shìzǔ administrative-political record and on Shùndì’s reign — Hú’s Xù biān aims to remedy this. The work runs from Shìzǔ Zhìyuán 13 / 1276 (the year of the Yuán’s effective conquest of the Sòng) through Shùndì Zhìzhèng 28 / 1368 (the Yuán’s flight north before the Míng founding). The form is Tōngjiàn gāngmù-style with attached lùn (judgments). The Sìkù editors find the yì lì mostly imitative of Sòng Lǐxué historiography but praise certain specific judgments, particularly on the Yuán Wénzōng’s covert murder of his elder brother (Hú reveals the affair from old-elders’ transmissions).
Of particular significance: the imperially-commissioned Xù gāngmù of the Chénghuà era (Shāng Lù 商輅 et al., 1476) took Hú’s work as its principal base for the Yuán-period coverage.