Yuán-period 元 Neo-Confucian scholar, the principal second-generation transmitter of Liú Yīn 劉因 (1249–1293)‘s tradition; the historical pivot between Liú Yīn and Sū Tiānjué 蘇天爵 蘇天爵 (1294–1352) in the Héběi Lǐxué lineage. Zì Jìngzhòng 敬仲; hào Mòān 默庵 (“Silent-Hut”). Native of Gǎochéng 藁城 (modern Héběi).
Discipleship. Young, Ān admired Liú Yīn’s reputation and wished to study with him; Liú Yīn was willing to transmit his learning to Ān — but Liú Yīn died (1293) before this could be carried out. Ān thereafter devoted his lifelong learning to following Liú Yīn’s tradition (a sīshū posthumous-discipleship rather than direct shīchuán).
Doctrinal defence. Sū Tiānjué’s xíngzhuàng records Ān’s forceful defence of Zhū Xī’s Sìshū jízhù against its northern critics — first the JīnYuán transition philosopher Wáng Ruòxū 王若虛 (Hǔ-nán-school Sìshū dissenter), then the later attacker Chén Tiānxiáng 陳天祥. The xíngzhuàng tradition relates that Ān forced Chén Tiānxiáng to burn his anti-Zhū book — though the Sìkù editors note that Chén Tiānxiáng’s book in fact survives.
Reception. Ān’s pupil Sū Tiānjué 蘇天爵 KR4d0523 composed the xíngzhuàng, gathered his poetry-and-prose into a 10-juàn collection, and secured Yú Jí 虞集 (1272–1348) to compose the preface. The original 10 juàn survive only in 5 juàn in the Sìkù base.
Within the Kanripo corpus. KR4d0462 Mòān jí 默庵集 (撰).
Reference. Yuánshǐ j. 189 (Rúlín zhuàn 2).