Lí Lìwǔ 黎立武 (ca. 1242–1305)
Zì Yǐcháng 以常. Native of Xīnyú 新喻 (modern Xīngàn 新干, Jiāngxī). Late-Sòng / Yuán-transition Confucian; took the jìnshì third place (tànhuā 探花) in Xiánchún 1265. Held office through Jūnqì shǎojiàn 軍器少監 兼 Guózǐ sīyè 國子司業 under Sòng Lǐzōng / Dùzōng. After the fall of the Sòng (1279) he refused all Yuán office, retiring for some thirty years to private scholarly life until his death.
Pupil-line: when he served as examiner in Fǔzhōu, he selected Wú Chéng 吳澄 (1249–1333) for the gòng candidate-list — Wú Chéng later wrote Lí Lìwǔ’s tomb-inscription, in which he describes himself as Lí’s “ménrén” 門人. Lí Lìwǔ’s own teacher (per the same tomb-inscription) was Xiè shàngshū 謝尚書 of Xīnyú, who had served as governor of Yílíng 夷陵 and had transmitted the Zhōngyōng learning of the second Guō Zhōngxiào 郭忠孝 of Hénán to the South. Lí Lìwǔ thus stands in the lineage Chéng Yí 程頤 → Guō Zhōngxiào 郭忠孝 → Guō Yōng → Xièshàngshū → Lí Lìwǔ — a marginal but distinctive branch of Lǐxué that read the Zhōngyōng through Guō Zhōngxiào’s “zhōng = xìng, yōng = dào” gloss (rejected in the Cheng-Zhu mainstream but preserved here).
Surviving works in Kanripo:
- KR1h0027 Zhōngyōng zhǐguī 中庸指歸 (1 juàn) + Zhōngyōng fēnzhāng 中庸分章 (1 juàn) + Dàxué fāwēi 大學發微 (1 juàn) + Dàxué běnzhǐ 大學本旨 (1 juàn) — four short texts on the Dàxué and Zhōngyōng combined into the WYG entry as a single 4-piece work.
The Cheng-Zhu mainstream took its Zhōngyōng reading through Yóu Zuò 游酢 and Yáng Shí 楊時; Lí Lìwǔ’s lineage took it through Guō Zhōngxiào — a divergent reading that, as the Sìkù tíyào notes, reflects “Chéngzǐ’s late-life settled doctrine” but never became orthodox.
(CBDB id 33517; conventional dates 1242–1305 are derived from Wú Chéng’s tomb-inscription; CBDB gives “1276–1343” which is incorrect — the catalog meta gives the same erroneous figure. Followed here are the corrected lifedates from the Wú Chéng wénjí.)