Southern-Sòng courtier and cí-writer (1109–1180), zì Chúnfǔ 純甫, hào Hǎiyě lǎonóng 海野老農 (“Old Farmer of the Sea-Wild”), of Biàn (Kāifēng). Entered service as a gémén zhīhòu (Court-Gate attendant) under Gāozōng’s Shàoxīng; became Nèizhīkè in the future Xiàozōng’s Jiànwáng household during the 1150s. On Xiàozōng’s accession in Lóngxīng 1 / 1163, rose rapidly to Quán zhī Gémén shì, then Kāifǔ yítóng sānsī and Shǎobǎo in Chúnxī. With Lóng Dàyuān 龍大淵, Zēng was the principal political enemy of the qīngliú purist party at Xiàozōng’s court; his Sòng shǐ biography is in the Nìngxìngzhuàn 佞倖傳 (“Favorites and Sycophants,” vol. 470). Despite the political opprobrium, Zēng was a writer of considerable literary flair. His Hǎiyě cí KR4j0034 in one juǎn (around 88 cí in the Quán Sòng cí) contains widely-praised Shǔlí (loss-of-the-north) pieces composed during his Lóngxīng 1 / 1163 diplomatic mission to the Jīn — Jīnrén pěng lùpán at Biànjīng, Yì Qíné on the Hándān road, Gǎn huángēn on return to Línān; Huáng Shēng 黃昇’s Huāān cí xuǎn singles them out as carrying “qīrán shǔlí zhī bēi” 凄然有黍離之悲. The Sìkù compilers defended his inclusion on the precedent of admitting Cuī Shí and Zōng Chǔkè to the Táng-poetry anthologies.