Late-Yuán / early-Míng official and Confucian scholar of Xīnyú 新喻 (modern Xīnyú, Jiāngxī). Style-name Jūjìng 居敬; sobriquet Chūyǐn 樗隱 (“Recluse-by-the-Useless-Tree”). He passed the Zhìzhèng 2 (1342) jìnshì; appointed Guózǐ jiān zhùjiào; served as Hànlín xiūzhuàn; Jiāngnándào yùshǐ; Jiāngxī liánfǎngsī jīnglì. When the disorders broke out he requested to retire home; back in his native place he taught Classical studies. In Hóngwǔ 2 (1369) he was among the eight gāojié bóyǎ (high-clean, broadly-elegant) scholars summoned to participate in the Míng ritual book compilation; he served on that project (as evidenced by the Hóngwǔ dated inscriptions in his collection: Yàngōngmiào bēi and Yú Zhēnrén bēi). The Míng Tàizǔ shílù records a separate later summons (with Liú Yú 劉于) to court for office; both Hú and Liú declined on age and illness, and the emperor sent them home with silk. So Hú never accepted formal Míng office. His Chūyǐn jí 樗隱集 (KR4d0583) is reconstructed from the Yǒnglè dàdiǎn. He was associated with Wú Gāo 吳臯 — see KR4d0565 — as one of the writers of prefaces for that collection.