Hóng Zūn, zì Jǐngyán 景嚴, was the second of the three illustrious Hóng brothers — sons of the loyalist diplomat Hóng Hào 洪皓 — and a major mid-Southern Sòng official, scholar, and editor. Native of Póyáng 鄱陽 in Ráozhōu 饒州 (modern Jiāngxī). He passed the jìnshì in Shàoxīng 12 (1142) together with his elder brother Hóng Shì 洪适 and their younger brother Hóng Mài 洪邁 (1123–1202; later author of Róngzhāi suíbǐ 容齋隨筆). Hóng Zūn rose through the Hànlín Academy to become Hànlín Academician Recipient of Edicts (翰林學士承旨) and Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs. In Qiándào 9 (1173) he edited the Hànyuàn qúnshū 翰苑羣書 (KR2l0004), preserving the foundational Tang and Northern Sòng treatises on the Hànlín Academy. He also compiled the first systematic Chinese numismatic monograph, Quán zhì 泉志, in 15 juǎn. Posthumous title 文安. Lifedates 1120–1174 confirmed in CBDB and Sòngshǐ 373.