Huá Yuè 華岳 (d. 1221), zì Zǐxī 子西, hào Cuìwēi 翠微, was a Southern Sòng wǔxué (Military Academy) student, military theorist, poet, and political dissident from Guìchí 貴池 (modern Chízhōu, Anhui). In Kāixǐ 1 (1205) he submitted a celebrated direct memorial to Níngzōng demanding the execution of chief councillor Hán Tuōzhòu 韓侂冑 and his ally Sū Shīdàn 蘇師旦; he was sent to the Dàlǐsì (Court of Judicial Review), branded, and biānguǎn (penal-banished) to Jiànníng 建寧, where the prefect Chuán Bóchéng 傳伯成 unofficially loosened his confinement. After Hán Tuōzhòu’s assassination (1207) Huá was released, returned to the wǔxué, and passed the wǔjǔ jìnshì with first-place ranking, becoming a Diànqiánsī guān. Embittered, he plotted to remove chief councillor Shǐ Míyuǎn 史彌遠; the plot was discovered and Huá was sent to the Línān prison and beaten to death (zhàngsǐ in the eastern market) in Jiādìng 14 (1221), Shǐ Míyuǎn declaring “This is the man who would have killed me”. His extant works comprise the literary-political Cuìwēi nánzhēng lù 翠微南征錄 KR4d0318 (11 juǎn) and the separate military treatise Cuìwēi běizhēng lù 翠微北征錄 (14 juǎn; not in the Sìkù biéjí recension), the latter an important source for Sòng frontier-defense doctrine.