Hán Jū 韓駒 (d. 1135), zì Zǐcāng 子蒼, native of Shǔ Xiānjǐngjiān 蜀仙井監 (modern Sìchuān). Under Zhènghé (1111–18) called-and-tested; granted jìnshì chūshēn. Cumulatively appointed Zhōngshū shèrén and Quánzhí Xuéshìyuàn 權直學士院. At the southward crossing’s beginning he served as Prefect of Jiāngzhōu. Sòng shǐ j. 445 Wényuàn zhuàn.
Hán’s poetic learning originally derived from the Sū’s (= Sū Shì); Lǚ Běnzhōng 呂本中’s Jiāngxī zōngpài tú listed Hán among the Jiāngxī-school members, which much-displeased Hán. The Sìkù editors note that Hán’s poetry — although having distinct Yùzhāng (= Huáng Tíngjiān) features in mócuì jiǎnjié (polished-and-clipped) — does belong in the school. Lù Yóu 陸游 in colophon to Hán’s poetry-drafts records that Hán fǎnfù túyì (repeatedly revised), tracking down sources of every line; even after a poem was given away, sometimes for months, sometimes from a thousand lǐ away, he would call back and re-fix it — wú háofā hèn nǎi zhǐ (until without a hair’s regret, only-then-stopped). The standard portrait of a kǔyín (bitter-chanting) poet.
Liú Kèzhuāng 劉克莊 in Hòucūn shīhuà criticised Hán (and others) for zìyù qíjì zhì guìxiǎn (selling their skill to attain prominence) — referring to Hán’s Tàiyǐ zhēnrén tú poem, which (per Cháo Gōngwǔ’s Dúshū zhì) was solicited by Wáng Fǔ 王黼, much-praised at the time. The poem’s lines Yùtáng xuéshì jīn Liú Xiàng zhī jù (the Jade-Hall scholar today is the [new] Liú Xiàng) constituted a major tuīxǔ (recommendation-praise) of the powerful minister.
CBDB id 11957 has deathyear 1135 only.
His collection is Língyáng jí 陵陽集 KR4d0173 in 4 juǎn. The Língyáng title derives from his xiāngguān (former native-place / sobriquet).