Mid-Northern-Sòng gǔwén polemicist and Sòng-Xī-Xià frontier official, zì Shīlǔ 師魯, of Hénán 河南 (Luòyáng). Jìnshì of Tiānshèng 2 / 1024 (the same cohort as the Two Sòngs and Yú Jìng). Disciple of Mù Xiū 穆修; the third link in the canonical gǔwén lineage Liǔ Kāi → Mù → Yǐn → Ōuyáng Xiū. One of the famous “Four Worthies” Sì xián of Jǐngyòu 3 / 1036 (with Fàn Zhòngyān, Yú Jìng, Ōuyáng Xiū) defended in Cài Xiāng’s 蔡襄 Sì xián yī bù xiào shī. Served as aide to Hán Qí 韓琦 on the Sòng-Xī-Xià frontier during the Hǎoshuǐchuān defeat of 1041; demoted in the post-defeat reckoning. Died at Càizhōu in 1047 in poverty, age 47. Author of the Wǔdài chūnqiū 五代春秋 (a Confucian re-reading of the Five Dynasties in Chūnqiū style — proximate model for Ōuyáng’s Xīn Wǔdài shǐ KR2c0014). Surviving collection: Hénán jí KR4d0026 (27 juǎn). The gǔwén polemic stylist whose deliberately compressed prose set the model for Ōuyáng Xiū’s mature jì and xù. CBDB id 7104.