Ōuyáng Xuán 歐陽玄 (1283–1357), zì Yuángōng 原功, hào Guīzhāi 圭齋, native of Liúyáng 瀏陽 (Tánzhōu, Húnán). The Sìkù tíyào and YuánMíng catalogs name him 歐陽元 (Yuán) because xuán 玄 was a Qiánlóng-era taboo (康熙 = Xuányè); both forms refer to the same person. Yányòu 2 (1315) jìnshì; “three times Chéngjūn, twice Jìjiǔ, six times into the Hànlín, three times chéngzhǐ” — the dominant editor of late-Yuán court rhetoric; chief editor of the Sòngshǐ, Liáoshǐ, Jīnshǐ. Yú Jí himself early recognized Ōuyáng as his peer; in his Sòng Yuángōng yègào huán Liúyáng poem he wrote “hànmò tóngcháo yòu shí nián” — affirming the pairing. Kǒng Qí 孔齊 in his Zhìzhèng zhíjì records that Ōuyáng’s prose was held inferior to that of Yú Jí, Jiē Xīsī, and Huáng Jìn in formal wénfǎ, but exceeded all three in factual reliability. Sòng Lián compared his prose to “léidiàn huǎnghū, yǔbáo jiāoxià” “lightning-flashes recovered, hail and rain falling together — terrifying and astonishing — and when the cloud passes and the rain ends, ten thousand lǐ of clear blue sky.”