Late Yuán Fújiàn literatus and Daoist-leaning recluse. Style-name Cháozōng 朝宗; native of Mǐn County (Fúzhōu, modern Fúzhōu City). At the close of the Zhìzhèng era he was caught in the warfare engulfing southeast China and resolved to abandon any pursuit of office. In the early Hóngwǔ era a local supervising official wished to recommend him to court; he refused vigorously and was excused. Soon after he was summoned to the Shǐjú (Historiography Office) and again refused. His biography is in Míng shǐ, yǐnyì zhuàn (chapter on recluses). He was the closest friend of the loyalist suicide Wáng Hàn 王翰 (KR4d0551); after Wáng’s death he raised Wáng’s son Wáng Chēng 王偁 (his student) and saw him to adulthood. Wú reportedly held strong polemical views — naming YángMò and Buddhism/Daoism as “robbers of the Sage’s Way”, GuǎnShāngShēnHán as “robbers of the Way of governance”, bàiguān and yěchéng (apocryphal histories) as “robbers of the Way of history”, and ornate verse as “robbers of literature” — calling for state ratification of an orthodox book-list. He named his studio Wénguò zhāi 聞過齋 (“Studio for Hearing One’s Faults”) because, says the tíyào, he received correction joyfully and changed at once.