Fāng Yuè 方岳 (1199–1262), zì Jùshān 巨山, sobriquet Qiūyá 秋崖, was a native of Shèxiàn 歙縣 in Huīzhōu 徽州 (modern Anhuī) and one of the most idiosyncratic late-Sòng literary figures. He took the jìnshì in Shàodìng 5 (1232), the same examination class as Xú Yuánjié 徐元杰 (see KR4d0351). His official career was a series of provincial postings interrupted by confrontations with chancellors: he served as Adjunct (Cānyìguān 參議官) to the Huái front commander Zhào Kuí 趙葵, then as Prefect of Nánkāngjūn 南康軍, where he had river-soldiers flogged in a manner that incurred the enmity of Jiǎ Sìdào 賈似道; later, as Prefect of Yuánzhōu 袁州, he ran afoul of the chancellor Dīng Dàquán 丁大全 and was impeached and sent home. He spent his last years in retirement in Huīzhōu and died there in 1262.
His literary reputation rests above all on his parallel prose (piánwén 駢文): the Sìkù editors pair him with Liú Kèzhuāng 劉克莊 (1187–1269) as the leading parallel-prose stylists of late Sòng. He was also a substantial poet in the broader Jiānghú 江湖 tendency, though never strictly part of the Chén Qǐ 陳起 Jiānghú xiǎojí circle. His collected works survive as the Qiūyá jí 秋崖集 in 40 juàn (KR4d0353), reconstituted by the Sìkù editors from three earlier recensions (the Bǎoyòu 1257 Sòng print of the Xīngǎo, the Míng Jiājìng reprint of the Xiǎogǎo, and the separately circulating Qiūyá xiǎojiǎn letters).
Not to be confused with the Míng-era homonym Fāng Yuè (b. 1442, CBDB 199364).