Zēng Mǐnxíng 曾敏行 (1118–1175), zì Dáchén 達臣, self-styled Fúyún jūshì 浮雲居士 (“Floating-Cloud Recluse”), Dúxǐng dàorén 獨醒道人 (“Solitary-Sober Daoist”), and Guīyú lǎorén 歸愚老人 (“Returning-to-Folly Old Man”). Native of Jíshuǐ 吉水, Lúlíng 廬陵 prefecture (mod. Jiāngxī). His great-grandfather Zēng Xiàoxiān 曾孝先 and grandfather Zēng Jūnyàn 曾君彥 had both refused to embrace Wáng Ānshí’s “New Learning” (xīnxué) for the examinations during the Xīníng period (1068–1077), and the family kept its anti-reform stance into the third generation. Zēng Mǐnxíng was crippled by illness at age twenty and never held office (yǐ bìng fèi bù néng shìjìn 以病廢不能仕進). He devoted himself to xuéwèn and to gathering anecdotes from old men and friends; among his close associates were three of the most prominent twelfth-century Jiāngxī literati: 胡銓 Hú Quán (1102–1180), 楊萬里 Yáng Wànlǐ (1127–1206), and 謝諤 Xiè È (1121–1194). His one work — the Dúxǐng zázhì 獨醒雜志 KR3l0073 in 10 juàn — was edited posthumously by his son Zēng Sānpìn 曾三聘 from the manuscripts left at his death in Chúnxī 2 (1175), with the xíngzhuàng (record of conduct) by Fán Rényuǎn 樊仁遠 and the āicí (lament) by Hú Quán appended. Yáng Wànlǐ wrote the preface in Chúnxī yǐsì (1185); Xiè È, 趙汝愚 Zhào Rǔyú, 周必大 Zhōu Bìdà, and 樓鑰 Lóu Yuè later wrote postfaces. CBDB id 13236 confirms 1118–1175; the date is consistent with the internal evidence of his own work and with the standard biographical notice in Sòngrén zhuànjì zīliào suǒyǐn.