Shào Bówēn 邵伯溫
Style name Zǐwén 子文. Native of Hénánfǔ 河南府 (modern Luòyáng). Lifedates 1057–1134 (Northern through early Southern Sòng). Son of 邵雍 (Shào Yōng, 1011–1077) — the xiāntiān 先天 Yì-numerologist and one of the canonical Běi Sòng wǔzǐ 北宋五子 (“Five Masters of the Northern Sòng”) — and the principal posthumous editor of his father’s corpus.
Held court and provincial appointments under late Northern Sòng and (after the southern crossing of 1127) under the early Southern Sòng. Rose to Lìlù zhuǎnyùn fùshǐ 利路轉運副使 (“Associate Fiscal Commissioner of the Lì circuit,” in modern Sìchuān). The Sòngshǐ Rúlín zhuàn (juan 433) gives him a biography.
His principal surviving works:
- [[KR1a0017|Yìxué biànhuò]] 易學辨惑 — short polemical defence of Shào Yōng’s Yì-numerological lineage against the appropriator Zhèng Guài 鄭夬; the principal early source for the Chén Tuán → Mù Xiū → Lǐ Zhīcái → Shào Yōng transmission narrative that the Sòngshǐ incorporated.
- Wénjiàn qián lù 聞見前錄 (“Earlier Record of Things Seen and Heard”) in 20 juan — the major source for the early Northern-Sòng intellectual milieu and the Shào Yōng circle (including Zhōu Dūnyí, the Chéng brothers, Zhāng Zài).
- Yì xué jìng yǔ 易學經語 / Hénán Shào shì wénjí 河南邵氏文集 — collected prose-and-verse pieces.
- Editorial responsibility for his father’s Huángjí jīng shì shū 皇極經世書, the central work of Shào Yōng’s chart-cosmology corpus.
His son Shào Bó 邵博 continued the Wénjiàn records as Wénjiàn hòu lù 聞見後錄, extending the family record into the early Southern Sòng. Together the two Wénjiàn records form one of the most important bǐjì 筆記 cycles for late-Northern-Sòng intellectual and political history.