Chén Hú 陳鵠 (hào Xītáng 西塘), Southern-Sòng literatus and bǐjì compiler, native of Nányáng 南陽. His official career, native sub-prefecture, and lifedates are not recoverable from the standard biographical sources; the Sòng shǐ contains no biography, and the Sìkù compilers, examining the two extant title-page inscriptions of his Qíjiù xùwén 耆舊續聞 (“Recorded and corrected by Chén Hú of Nányáng” and “Composed by Chén Hú of Xītáng”), could fix him only as “a person of Kāixǐ (1205–1207) and after” on the strength of his record of personal travel with Lù Zǐyì 陸子逸 (a nephew of 陸游 Lù Yóu) during Lù Zǐyì’s tenure as zhīzhōu 知州 of Chénzhōu 辰州, plus the work’s notice of 陸游 (d. 1210) and 辛棄疾 Xīn Qìjí (d. 1207). The CBDB returns five entries under the name 陳鵠 (c_personid 11579, 203181, 212435, 474626, 689695), none with confirmable dates that match the Qíjiù xùwén compiler; CBDB id 203181 carries a birth year 1509 — clearly a Míng homonym — and the other four are undated. No confident CBDB match.
Chén Hú’s literary affiliation, as preserved through the Qíjiù xùwén KR3l0074, is firmly within the SūShì 蘇軾 circle and the early Jiāngxī shīpài 江西詩派 tradition: the work transmits anecdotes and shīhuà on 蘇軾, 黃庭堅 Huáng Tíngjiān, 陳師道 Chén Shīdào, 秦觀 Qín Guān, 張耒 Zhāng Lěi, 歐陽修 Ōuyáng Xiū, and the post-Nándù survivors of the Yuányòu generation. His maternal cousin Zhào Chéngguó 趙承國 figures as an interlocutor in a Zhènghé 3 (1113) dialogue on xué preserved in the work — though the Sìkù compilers identify the underlying material as drawn from Lǚ Hǎowèn 呂好問’s hand-letters and incorporated by Chén Hú into the dialogue frame.