Fàn Chéngdà 范成大 (1126–1193), zì Zhìnéng 致能, hào Shíhú Jūshì 石湖居士, posthumous title Wénmù 文穆, of Wújùn 吳郡 (Sūzhōu, modern Jiāngsū). One of the four great Southern Sòng poets (alongside 陸游, Yáng Wànlǐ 楊萬里, and Yóu Mào 尤袤); a major travel-diarist; and a senior official whose career spanned several Southern Sòng courts. He passed the jìnshì in 1154 and rose through court office to Zhōngshūshèrén 中書舍人, then served on the strategically critical embassy to the Jin court at Yānjīng in 1170 (recorded in his Lánpèi lù 攬轡錄, KR2g0033); subsequently Zhī Jìngjiāngfǔ / Jīnglüè ānfǔshǐ of Guǎngxī from 1172 (recorded in his Cānluán lù 驂鸞錄 KR2g0054 and Guìhǎi yúhéng zhì 桂海虞衡志); then Zhìzhìshǐ 制置使 of Sìchuān at Chéngdū from 1175; and finally his return to court in 1177 (recorded in Wúchuán lù 吳船錄 KR2g0055). He retired to his estate at Shíhú 石湖 outside Sūzhōu in 1186, dying in 1193. Fàn’s poetic œuvre — over two thousand surviving poems, especially the Sìshí tiányuán záxìng 四時田園雜興 60-piece pastoral cycle — established him as the dominant pastoral voice of his age. CBDB id 7211 confirms 1126–1193 (standard Sòng shǐ-derived dating). Hargett’s translations and studies (2006, 2008, 2010, 2018) are the principal English-language entry into Fàn’s prose corpus.