Sòng poet, anthologist, and scholar from Jìxī 績溪 (modern Anhui), son of the imperial censor and military commissioner Hú Shùnzhì 胡舜陟 (1083–1143). After his father’s fall and death in prison under the chancellor Qín Huì 秦檜, Hú Zǐ withdrew to Wúxīng 吳興 in modern Zhèjiāng, where he styled himself “Tiáoxī yúyǐn” 苕溪漁隱 (“the Tiáoxī recluse-fisher”). He is principally remembered as the compiler of the Tiáoxī yúyǐn cónghuà 苕溪漁隱叢話 (前集 c. 1148, 後集 c. 1167), one of the major Sòng poetry-talk (shīhuà) collections. He also compiled, at his father’s order during the latter’s enforced retirement, the Kǒngzǐ biānnián 孔子編年 (KR2g0001, preface dated 1138). His lifedates are conventionally given as c. 1110 – c. 1170; the catalog meta’s “1147 – 1167” reflect his period of editorial activity, not his lifedates. CBDB record 13142 lists 1082–1138, but those dates conflate father and son; the standard biographical sources prefer the c. 1110 – c. 1170 range adopted here.