Hú Fāngpíng 胡方平 (lifedates not securely recorded; fl. late thirteenth century, late Sòng / early Yuán transition), zì Shīlǔ 師魯, hào Yùzhāi 玉齋, of Wùyuán 婺源 in Huīzhōu 徽州 (modern Wùyuán county, Jiāngxī). CBDB id 21918.
Father of 胡一桂 (Hú Yīguì, 1247–1314), the major Yuán-period Yì scholar, whose work Yì běnyì fùlù zuǎnshū 易本義附錄纂疏 systematically supersedes Dǒng Kǎi’s structural intervention (KR1a0061) and restores Zhū Xī’s gǔyì recension within the Zhū-school orthodoxy.
Pedagogical lineage (per CBDB): Zhū Xī → Huáng Gàn → Dǒng Mèngchéng 董夢程 → Shěn Guībǎo 沈貴宝 → Hú Fāngpíng — fourth-generation Zhū-Xī-school transmission. The Sìkù tiyao compresses this to “Hú Fāngpíng’s learning came from Dǒng Mèngchéng,” skipping the Shěn Guībǎo intermediary.
The Hú-family transmission compound was at Wùyuán (Huīzhōu); together with the Cài-family Jiànyáng compound and the Wǔ-yí-Mountain XióngHé circle, the HúWùyuán center was one of the principal late-Sòng / early-Yuán Zhū-school Dàoxué refuges during the Mongol-conquest period.
Within the Kanripo corpus he is the author of KR1a0062 Yì xué qǐméng tōng shì 易學啟蒙通釋 — a 2-juan running gloss on Zhū Xī’s Yì xué qǐméng drawing systematically and self-discipliningly only on Zhū Xī’s six direct disciples and three Cài-school second-generation figures. The work was transmitted through his son Hú Yīguì at Wǔyí Mountain in 1289 (Zhìyuán 26 jǐchǒu) — Xióng Hé 熊禾 and Liú Jīng 劉涇 cut the woodblocks and provided colophons.
Methodologically a strictly-disciplined Zhū-school xiàngshù compiler: the work avoids drifting into the broader speculative xiàngshù literature (Liú Mù, Zhū Zhèn, etc.) that the Zhū-school did not endorse, and stays within the discipline of the Qǐméng’s actual text plus immediate-Zhū-school-disciple lineage commentary.