Yáo Rǔxún 姚汝循 (hào Luófúshānrén 羅浮山人, holding the Tàifù 太傅 / Grand Tutor honorific rank; fl. late Wànlì era, ca. 1590s–1610s), late-Míng senior official and one of the most prominent Wàn-lì-period anti-eunuch memorialists. Yáo’s principal political-historical claim is his strong memorial against the Kāicǎi (mining-opening) policy of the 1590s — during which the emperor had despatched eunuch tax-collectors to open mines across the realm, causing severe popular distress. Yáo’s memorial — accompanied by his illustrated Kāicǎi shuō tú 開採說圖 — reportedly moved the emperor to halt the policy and brought Yáo’s zhíshēng (upright-name) to broad public acclaim.
In his leisure he pursued the zhūzǐ bǎijiā (the classical philosophers and hundred-houses literature) and produced the Lùzhútáng yīfāng / jíyàn fāng 菉竹堂醫方 / 集驗方 (KR3ed148) — a clinical formulary representing his medical-philological side. The 1696 (Kāngxī 35) reprint by a Zhèjiāng Provincial Commander brought the work into Qīng circulation as part of the early-Qīng moral-political rehabilitation of late-Míng anti-eunuch officials. The standard Míngshǐ biography is in juǎn 235; lifedates not securely fixed.