Wáng Yánwǔ 王炎午 (1252–1324), originally named Wáng Yìngméi 王應梅, zì Dǐngwēng 鼎翁, hào Méibiān 梅邊, native of Nánwènyuán 南汶源 in Ānchéng 安成 (modern Ānfú 安福 in Lúlíng 廬陵, Jiāngxī). He was admitted to the Imperial University by the suílù hùnbǔ in Xiánchún jiǎxū (1274). On his father’s death he returned home; the following year Línān fell. When Wén Tiānxiáng 文天祥 raised troops, Wáng presented a memorandum proposing the conversion of the Wén family estate into army provisions and the recruitment of Huái cavalry as instructors; Wén accepted and retained him in the staff. Wáng soon returned home on his mother’s illness. When Wén was captured, Wáng composed the famous Shēng jì Wénchéngxiàng wén 生祭文丞相文 (“Living-Sacrifice Eulogy for the Prime Minister Wén”) — over 1,500 words — exhorting Wén to die so as to fix the gāngcháng (cardinal moral order); after Wén’s actual execution in 1283 he wrote the corresponding Wàng jì wén 望祭文 (“Distant-View Sacrifice Eulogy”). Thereafter he changed his name to Yánwǔ and renamed his collection Wúwèn gǎo KR4d0408 — both gestures of Sòng-loyalist refusal. He spent the next five decades in private literary life in Ānfú. His collected works were issued in the Yuán Yìtǒng era (1334) with prefaces by Jiē Xīsī 揭傒斯 and Ōuyáng Xuán 歐陽玄. CBDB person 35269.