Yáo Hóng 姚宏 (d. c. 1146), zì Lìngshēng 令聲 (some sources give Bóshēng 伯聲), was a native of Shànchuān 剡川 (modern Shèngxiàn 嵊縣, Zhèjiāng) of the Southern Sòng. He served as Deletion Officer (shāndìng guān 刪定官) in the Bureau of Government Compilation under Gāozōng 高宗. A determined opponent of the appeasement policy of the chief minister Qín Huì 秦檜, he was eventually arrested on Qín Huì’s orders, sent to the Court of Judicial Review (dàlǐ 大理) prison in Lín’ān, and died there of disease (some sources say in 1146). His name appears in the catalogues of literati who refused to bow to the Qín Huì faction. His major scholarly accomplishment is the recension and supplementary annotation (xùzhù 續注) of the Zhànguó cè KR2e0003: where the surviving Hàn-period commentary of 高誘 had been lost from most juǎn, Yáo Hóng worked through the entire text, drew on the recensions of Zēng Gǒng 曾鞏, Qián Zǎo 錢藻, Liú Chǎng 劉敞, and the Jíxián Yuàn 集賢院 manuscript, and provided systematic continuous annotation marked xù 續 to distinguish his contributions from Gāo Yòu’s. The Sìkù editors regard his recension as the de facto received text of the Zhànguó cè and credit him as much for his integrity in resisting Qín Huì as for his philological work. (He should not be confused with the unrelated 姚寬 姚寬, his younger brother, also a Sòng scholar.)