Zhōu Bìdà 周必大 (1126–1204), zì Zǐchōng 子充 (also Hóngdào 洪道), enfeoffed as Yìguógōng 益國公, posthumously canonised Wénzhōng 文忠. Native of Lúlíng 廬陵 (modern Jí’ān 吉安, Jiāngxī). Major Southern-Sòng statesman, chief councillor (Yòu chéngxiàng 右丞相, 1188; Zuǒ chéngxiàng 左丞相, 1189) under Sòng Xiàozōng 孝宗 and Guāngzōng 光宗. Jìnshì of Shàoxīng 21 (1151), with subsequent appointments at the Hànlín Academy, the Mìshūshěng, and as Director of the Sānxué 三學. As Chief Councillor he was a leading conservative voice; he retired in 1190 and held a string of honorific titles to his death. A bibliophile and patron of scholarship, he sponsored the printing of the great Sòng cóngshū and wrote prefaces for many Sòng works of history and literature, including those for Xiāo Cháng’s Xù HòuHànshū (KR2d0012, 1200) and for the Wénhǎi 文海 (a major Sòng anthology). His own Wénzhōnggōng jí 文忠公集 (200 juǎn) survives and is the principal source for late-twelfth-century court politics. CBDB id 7197, dates 1126–1204 (confirmed). His biography is in Sòngshǐ 391 (KR2a0017).