Dèng Sù 鄧肅 (1091–1132), zì Zhìhóng 志宏, hào Bīnglú 栟櫚, native of Nánjiàn 南劍 (modern Nánpíng 南平, Fújiàn). Initial fame at the Imperial Academy in Xuānhé rényín 宣和壬寅 (1122): when the Gènyuè 艮岳 imperial garden was completed, Lǐ Zhì 李質 and Cáo Zǔ 曹組 each presented fù; only the tàixué shēng 太學生 Dèng Sù offered ten poems detailing the huāshí gāng 花石綱 abuses, ending: “dàn yuàn jūnwáng ān wànxìng; pǔzhōng hérì bù chūnfēng” (only-wishing the lord-king to pacify the myriad-people; in the garden, what day is not spring-wind?). For this he was expelled from the Academy.
In Jìngkāng (1126) Lǐ Gāng 李綱 (= Lǐ Bójì 李伯紀) re-opened his case and recommended him; recalled-and-interviewed, granted jìnshì chūshēn. When Zhāng Bāngchāng 張邦昌 usurped (the Chǔ 楚 puppet state of 1127), Dèng jiànháng (took back-roads) to the temporary capital Nánjīng to join Gāozōng — promoted Yòu zhèngyán 右正言 (Right Rectifier-of-Speech). The Sìkù editors compare his great-cause to Dù Fǔ’s Fèngxiānxiàn yǒnghuái (the famous Tang-period flight-of-the-loyal-poet) — and indeed his poems Jìngkāng yíngjià háng and Hòu yíngjià háng echo Dù’s pieces.
Theological/historiographic significance: Dèng’s Shū Yáng Xióng shì 書揚雄事 single-handedly classified Yáng Xióng as a pànchén (rebel-minister), precluding any place for him yú tiāndì zhī jiān (between heaven and earth). This — together with the parallel argument of Shěn Yǔqiú 沈與求 沈與求 — anticipates Zhū Xī’s Tōngjiàn gāngmù “Mǎngdàfū Yáng Xióng sǐ” entry. The relative chronological priority of Dèng vs. Shěn cannot be established.
Personal connection: Dèng was a close friend of Zhū Sōng 朱松 朱松 (Zhū Xī’s father). Lù Shēn’s 陸深 Xīshān yúhuà preserves the famous zuìliú guāndài yǐ zhì zhǐbǐ (drunkenly-leaving cap-and-belt as pawn for paper-and-brush) anecdote between Dèng and Zhū Sōng — Dèng’s Jì Zhū Wéizhāi poem describes the affair. The Gāngmù’s reading of Yáng Xióng possibly traveled through this Dèng-Zhū Sōng-Zhū Xī chain.
CBDB id 27770 confirms 1091–1132.
His collection survives as Bīnglú jí 栟櫚集 KR4d0168 in 16 juǎn — apparently a later, possibly Jīn-period re-editing of the original 30-juǎn Bīnglú yíwén recorded by Wáng Míngqīng’s 王明清 Huīzhú hòulù. The original 30-juǎn version (with poetry as appendix) is no longer extant.