Kuàng Lù 鄺露 (1604–1650), zì Zhànruò 湛若, hào Hǎixuě 海雪. Native of Nánhǎi 南海 in Guǎngzhōu. Late-Míng cí-poet, calligrapher, traveller, qín-master, and Míng-loyalist martyr. Failed in the prefectural exam in his youth for writing the four legs of an eight-legged essay each in a different calligraphic script (zhēn, cǎo, lì, zhuàn) — earning him a reputation as a fàngdàn zhī shì (wild-and-unrestrained scholar). Travelled extensively in the late 1630s; spent time in Guǎngxī as zhǎngshūjì to the Yáo chieftainess Yúntuǒniáng — producing the Chìyǎ 赤雅 (KR2k0147). His youthful association with Ruǎn Dàchéng 阮大鋮 (each writing prefaces for the other’s collected works; Kuàng’s Qiáoyǎ 嶠雅 calling Ruǎn Shícháo fūzǐ) gave him a politically compromised reputation. On the Qīng capture of Guǎngzhōu in Shùnzhì 7 (1650), Kuàng refused to surrender, embraced his treasured ancient gǔqín (the Lǜqǐ 綠綺 lute), and starved himself to death — a death commemorated by Wáng Shìzhēn’s famous line Nánhǎi jīrén sǐ bào qín “the singular man of Nánhǎi died holding the qín.” The Sìkù tíyào explicitly notes that his loyalist death partially redeems but does not match the unimpeachable integrity of Huáng Chúnyào and other martyrs. CBDB id 73479. Major works: Qiáoyǎ 嶠雅 (collected verse); Chìyǎ 赤雅 (KR2k0147); Yān shǐ 嬾史; Xīngyán shū 性研書 (calligraphy treatise).