Zhèng Xīngyì 鄭興裔 (1126–1199)
Zì Guāngxī 光錫. Original given name Xīngzōng 興宗 (later changed). Third-generation male-line great-grandson of Empress Xiǎnsù 顯肅 (Empress Wáng, principal wife of Huīzōng) — i.e., a member of the Sòng imperial wàijiā (maternal-affine) lineage. Posthumous shì Zhōngsù 忠肅 (“Loyal-and-Solemn”). CBDB id 15347, lifedates 1126–1199.
Career advanced through the guānyì (privileged-clan-recommendation) system characteristic of imperial-affine officials: from Chéngzhōngláng he rose through Jiāngdōnglù qiánxiá (commissioner of the Jiāngdōng circuit), Jūnzhōu fángyùshǐ (Defense Commissioner of Jūnzhōu), Bǎojìngjūn jiédùshǐ (Military Governor of the Bǎojìng army), recalled to Wǔtàijūn jiédùshǐ concurrent with charge of an Inner-Sacrificial office. Posthumously honored Tàiwèi. Biography in Sòng shǐ j. 465 (the biographies of imperial affines).
The principal documentary value of his career rests on his memorials, preserved in his collection KR4d0212: the famous Qǐng qǐjū Chónghuágōng memorial — requesting Guāngzōng to visit his retired father Xiàozōng — is one of the central documentary sources for the 1191–1194 filial-piety crisis that precipitated Guāngzōng’s effective abdication and Hán Tuōzhòu’s rise. Other prominent pieces document the Huáixī famine administration, the zhébóqián (cloth-equivalent currency) abuses, and recommendations of Lù Jiǔyuān 陸九淵, Gōng Míngzhī 龔明之, Yán Dù 顔度, and Chén Zào 陳造 for office.
Surviving in Kanripo:
- KR4d0212 Zhèng Zhōngsù zòuyì yíjí (2 juǎn, WYG; principally memorials and zhuàng).