Xióng Pénglái 熊朋來
Style name Yǔkě 與可. Native of Nánchāng 南昌 in Jiāngxī. Jìnshì of Xiánchún 咸淳 10 (1274), the last metropolitan examination held under Sòng Dùzōng before the dynasty’s fall. Took the post of Fúqīng xiàn pànguān 福清縣判官 (Vice Magistrate of Fúqīng) under the Sòng; with the Yuán conquest he refused continued government service and lived for the remaining four-and-a-half decades of his life as a teacher in Jiāngxī, with periods at the Yùzhāng 豫章 prefectural school and the Lóngxīng 隆興 academy. He was one of the most respected Confucian scholars of the early Yuán in the Sòng yí mín (Sòng-loyalist) generation, and the Yuán shǐ Rúlín zhuàn (j. 190) gives him a substantial biography.
His scholarship retained the orthodox Sòng Dào xué framework (his Yì is xiāntiān hòutiān, Hé tú Luò shū; his Shū uses the Cài Shěn zhāngjù scheme; his Shī moves away from the Máo preface; his Chūnqiū moves away from the three commentaries) but his Lǐ exegesis is independently philological. His chief surviving work is the Jīng shuō 經說 (KR1g0013) in 7 juàn — recorded sayings on the Five Classics, posthumously assembled by his disciples. Other works include the Wǔ jīng yīn xùn 五經音訓 (lost), the Lǐ jì jiě 禮記解 (partially preserved), the Xióng xiānsheng wén jí 熊先生文集 (personal collected works, partially preserved through Yǒnglè dàdiàn fragments), and the famous Sè pǔ 瑟譜 — a treatise on the playing of the sè zither (in the imperial-cult context) that is among the most detailed surviving descriptions of pre-modern Chinese musical performance.
Note: The KR1g catalog meta gives his name as Xióng Mínglái 熊明來, a typographical slip; the source tíyào itself (and all standard catalogues from the Yuán shǐ onwards) give Xióng Pénglái 熊朋來 — followed here. CBDB id 30361 confirms the standard form. Lifedates 1246–1323 from CBDB and the Yuán shǐ.