Wèi Liǎowēng 魏了翁 (1178–1237), zì Huáfū 華夫 (also Huáfù 華父), hào Hèshān 鶴山, posthumous title Wénjìng 文靖. Of Pújiāng 蒲江 in Línqióng 臨卭 (modern Pújiāng county, Sìchuān, Chéngdū metropolitan region). CBDB id 4001. Sòngshǐ biography in juan 437.
Jìnshì of Qìngyuán 5 (1199). Career under Níngzōng / Lǐzōng included high central-government posts: Lǐbù shàngshū 禮部尚書 (Minister of Rites), Cānzhī zhèngshì 參知政事 (Vice Chief Councillor), Qiānshū Shūmìyuàn shì 僉書樞密院事 (Joint Senior Officer of the Bureau of Military Affairs); final post Zīzhèngdiàn dàxuéshì 資政殿大學士.
Studied with Lǐ Fán 李燔 (1163–1232, zì Jìngzǐ 敬子), one of Zhū Xī’s principal late disciples. The Qiánlóng Imperial Topic-Poem prefixed to the Sìkù base of his Zhōuyì yào yì makes this pedagogical lineage prominent: “Huáfū studied under Master Jìngzǐ; his learning transmits Zǐyáng [= Zhū Xī].”
Demoted to Jìngzhōu 靖州 (modern Jìng county, Hunan) in Bǎoqìng 1 (1225) following the political crisis triggered by the death of Níngzōng and the Shǐ Míyuǎn 史彌遠 chief-ministership’s irregular elevation of Lǐzōng (the hēi yī cānzhèng 黑衣參政 / “black-coat-attendance” affair, where Shǐ Míyuǎn allegedly arranged for the new emperor’s attendance in mourning-attire to legitimize the deposition of Níngzōng’s adopted heir Zhào Hóng 趙竑). The Jìngzhōu exile (1225 onward) was when the Jiǔjīng yào yì 九經要義 (“Essentials of the Nine Classics”) project was substantively compiled. Eventually recalled to high office under Lǐzōng’s later years.
Within the Kanripo corpus he is the compiler of KR1a0054 Zhōuyì yào yì 周易要義 (10 juan; the Yì portion of the Jiǔjīng yào yì). He also separately compiled the Zhōuyì jí yì 周易集義 (64 juan, Lián-Luò-and-after great-ru’s Yì-expositions, recovered by the Sìkù editors from Yǒnglè dàdiǎn — Zhū Yízūn conflated this with the Yào yì; the Sìkù editors corrected the conflation).
Methodologically Wèi Liǎowēng is one of the most balanced Hàn-and-Sòng synthesizers of the late Southern Sòng. The Yào yì + Jí yì compilation pair gives the late-Sòng student of the Yì both the substantive HànTáng zhùshū base (Kǒng Yǐngdá’s Zhèngyì + Lù Démíng’s Shì wén + Mǎ Róng / Zhèng Xuán / Wáng Sù glosses, pruned of apocryphal citations) and the substantive Sòng yìlǐ superstructure (the Lián-Luò-and-after great-ru line).
Substantial collected works: Hèshān xiānshēng dàquán wénjí 鶴山先生大全文集 (110 juan, in the Sìkù).