Hé Mèngchūn 何孟春 (1474–1536), zì Zǐyuán 子元, hào Yānquán 燕泉, posthumous Wénjiǎn 文簡, was a Míng official from Chēnzhōu 郴州 (modern Húnán). He passed the jìnshì in Hóngzhì guǐchǒu 弘治癸丑 (1493) and rose through Bīngbù zhǔshì, Hénán cānzhèng, Tàipúsì qīng 太僕寺卿, Yúnnán xúnfǔ, and Lìbù zuǒ shìláng 吏部左侍郎 — the last under early Jiājìng. As a young man he studied at Lǐ Dōngyáng’s 李東陽 mén (school) and acquired wide learning, though his prose was considered direct rather than ornate.
In the Dàlǐ yì (Great Ritual Controversy) Hé played a major and tragic role. Aligned with Yáng Tínghé and the senior officialdom against the Jiājìng emperor’s wish to elevate his biological father, Hé led the Zuǒshùnmén 左順門 demonstration of Jiājìng 3 / 7 / 15 (1524) — the famous standing-protest in front of the palace gate by 220 senior officials, in which they were beaten and many died. Hé survived but was demoted to Nánjīng gōngbù zuǒ shìláng 南京工部左侍郎 and shortly after struck off the official rolls (xuē jí 削籍). He died in disgrace; only under the Lóngqìng emperor was he posthumously restored as Lǐbù shàngshū with Wénjiǎn as posthumous title.
His memorials, lost to common circulation after his death, were rescued in early Wànlì (c. 1573–80) when the Húguǎng xúnfǔ qiāndū yùshǐ Zhào Xián 趙賢 (from Rǔyáng) collected and printed his prose at Yǒngzhōu and his memorials separately at Héngzhōu. The latter is the KR2f0023 Hé Wénjiǎn shūyì 何文簡疏議 in 10 juàn. Míng shǐ j. 191 has his biography. CBDB id 30315 (1474–1536), confirmed by Míng shǐ.