Wú Jǐng 吳儆 (1127–1183)
Zì Yìgōng 益恭. Original given name Chēng 偁, changed to Jǐng 儆 to avoid the name-taboo of Xiùdǐ 秀邸 (the prince of Xiù, second son of Gāozōng’s adoptive heir; thus the name change occurred c. 1162 on Xiàozōng’s accession). Hào Zhúzhōu 竹洲. Native of Xiūníng 休寧 (in modern Ānhuī). Lifedates 1127–1183, CBDB id 17527. Posthumous shì Wénsù 文肅.
Jìnshì of Shàoxīng 27 (1157). Career: rose through Cháosànláng to Guǎngnán Xīlù ānfǔshǐ (Pacification Commissioner of the Guǎngnán Western Circuit — modern Guǎngxī, a frontier post bordering Annam) and ended on a sinecure-temple appointment as Zhǔguǎn Táizhōu Chóngdàoguàn.
In late life intimate of Zhāng Shì 張栻 (Nánxuān), and held in high regard by Zhū Xī 朱熹. With his elder brother (also a teacher) he taught at Dìhuá (the family teaching-grounds), where students came from neighboring zhōu in the hundreds annually. His Letter to the Privy Councilor Jiǎng analyzing the zhànhéshǒu (war / peace / defense) triple-error, and his Letter to Wāng Chǔcái on the Yīchuān (Chéng Yí) disciples, are the principal documents of his political and intellectual stances.
Surviving in Kanripo:
- KR4d0222 Zhúzhōu jí (20 juǎn + 1-juǎn Dìhuá zázhù appendix, WYG; with a prefatory genealogy by Chéng Bì of 1235 placing his prose in the Yuányòu / Chén Shīdào lineage).