Wáng Ruòxū 王若虛 (1174–1243), zì Cóngzhī 從之, self-styled Yōngfū 慵夫 (“the Lazy Fellow”) and Hūnán yílǎo 滹南遺老 (“Old Remnant South of the Hūtuó”), native of Gǎochéng 槁城 (modern Héběi). Jīn Chéngān 2 (1197) jīngyì (Classics-specialist) jìnshì. Held office sequentially as Magistrate of Guǎnchéng 管城 and Ménshān 門山; was inducted by recommendation as biānxiū of the Imperial Historiography Office; rose to Yìngfèng hànlín wénzì, Zhuózuò zuǒláng, Vice-Prefect of Píngliáng; called as Zuǒsī jiànyì; transferred to Prefect of Yánzhōu; ended as Zhíxuéshì. When the Mongols took the Jīn northern lands he retired to his native Gǎochéng and refused to take Yuán office — the yílǎo self-designation in his collection’s title marks him as one of the foundational Jīn-loyalist yímín. In old age he traveled east to Tàishān, paused at the Cuìměi Pavilion at Huángxiàn Peak, and died there. His major surviving work is the Hūnán yílǎo jí KR4d0418 (also catalogued as Hūnán jí 滹南集) in 45 juàn — a comprehensive kǎojù corpus on the Five Classics, Lúnyǔ, Mèngzǐ, Shǐjì, dynastic histories, and historical-literary criticism, with a substantial Shīhuà (juàn 38–40) that is one of the principal Jīn-period poetics treatises. CBDB person 29507. Jīnshǐ j. 126.