Late-Táng official, satirical poet, and brief chancellor; zì Yùnwǔ 藴武, of Xíngyáng 滎陽 (modern Hénán); died Guānghuà 2 / Qiánníng 6 (899). Jìnshì under Xuānzōng; rose through Jiānchá yùshǐ, Diànzhōng shìyùshǐ, Cāngbù yuánwài láng, Hùbù yuánwài láng, Jīnbù, Xíngbù, Yòusī (three) lángzhōng, then Lǐbù yuánwài láng. As prefect of Lúzhōu 廬州 he resisted Huáng Cháo’s rebels and proved an honest local administrator. Under Xīzōng and Zhāozōng he served as Yòu jiànyì dàfū, Yòu sànqí chángshì, then in Qiánníng 1 (894) was made Lǐbù shìláng tóng zhōngshū ménxià píngzhāngshì — i.e., grand councillor — though he himself wrote a quatrain refusing to take up office: Qián qī shǐ wéi dào, jì lǎo lái zuò xiàng 前期始為盜既老來作相 (preserved in his biography). He earned the soubriquet Xiēhòu Zhèngwǔ 歇後鄭五 (“Lame-line Zhèng-the-fifth,” fifth-born) for his habitual use of xiēhòu yǔ 歇後語 (proverbial second-half-cut ditties) for veiled remonstration. Jiù Táng shū j. 179, Xīn Táng shū j. 183 give canonical biographies. Author of KR3l0113 Kāitiān chuánxìn jì 開天傳信記, a one-juǎn collection of KāiTiān nostalgia anecdotes that became a standard reference for later writers on Xuánzōng’s reign. CBDB id 93883 records death-year 899 (consistent with the Jiù Táng shū biography).