Yú Chóu 虞儔 (Sòng, fl. 1168–1201)
Zì Shòulǎo 夀老. Hào (hall) Zūnbáitáng 尊白堂 (“Hall-That-Honors-Bái-Jū-yì”). Native of Níngguó 寜國 (modern Ānhuī). CBDB id 27301 (no dates).
Career: Lóngxīng-era (1163–1164) Tàixué member; jìnshì shortly thereafter. Began as Magistrate of Jìxī; recommended for governance; transferred to Jiānchá yùshǐ; struck the powerful-and-noble. Zhèdōng tíxíng; Zhī Húzhōu during a famine year (with documented relief work). Ended as Bīngbù shìláng with sinecure-temple retirement. In Tàihé 1 / Jiātài 1 (1201) 3rd month, accompanied Zhāng Zhòngshū to the Jin court as bàoxiè (thanks-returning) embassy (confirmed in the Jīn shǐ Jiāopìn biǎo).
His enduring scholarly self-presentation: explicit lifelong admiration of Bái Jūyì 白居易 / Bó Lètiān, expressed by naming his hall and collection Zūnbái (“Honor-Bái”) and by composing a Dú Bái Lètiān shī whose closing line — “Liáoliáo qiānzǎi shì wú shī” (“over a thousand years he is my master”) — is the principal documentary anchor. The Sìkù editors detect his self-modeling on Bái as both strength and weakness in his prose-style.
Surviving in Kanripo:
- KR4d0244 Zūnbáitáng jí (6 juǎn, WYG; reconstructed from the Yǒnglè dàdiǎn — 4 poetry + 2 prose; reduced from the original 24-juǎn recension).