Áo Jìgōng 敖繼公 (Yuán, fl. late 13th – early 14th c.). Zì Jūnshàn 君善. Native of Chánglè 長樂 (in Fúzhōu prefecture, Fújiàn). Settled at Wúxīng 吳興 (modern Húzhōu, Zhèjiāng). Zhào Mèngfǔ 趙孟頫 (1254–1322) — the great Yuán-period painter and calligrapher — once received instruction from Áo Jìgōng. Áo was subsequently recommended by JiāngZhè píngzhāng (Provincial Director of JiāngZhè) Gāo Yànjìng 高彥敬 and appointed as Xìnzhōu jiàoshòu 信州教授 (Education Officer of Xìnzhōu).
Author of KR1d0035 Yílǐ jíshuō 儀禮集說 in 17 juan, completed in Dàdé xīnchǒu (Dàdé 5 = 1301). The work is a major Yuán-period commentary on the Yílǐ (KR1d0025), distinguished by its critical reassessment of Zhèng Xuán’s annotation. Áo’s autograph preface explicitly judges Zhèng’s notes “more flawed than sound” and proposes to retain the sound and replace the flawed with material from the sub-commentary, the Lǐjì, earlier Confucians, and his own original interpretation. He further questions the attribution of the Sāngfú zhuàn to Bǔ Shāng (Zǐxià). Despite this Sòng-school anti-Hàn orientation, Áo’s actual treatment is judicious — selecting from Zhèng what he accepts without polemical attack on what he rejects — and the Sìkù tíyào praises the work as “the equal of Sòng restraint.” CBDB id 511339.