Hú Zhí 胡直 (1517–1585), zì Zhèngfǔ 正甫, hào Lúshān 廬山, of Tàihé 泰和 (Jiāngxī). Took the jìnshì in Jiājìng 35 (1556); office reached Fújiàn àncháshǐ. He is a major Jiāngyòu Yáng-míng-school figure: studied first with Ōuyáng Dé 歐陽德, then with Luó Hóngxiān 羅洪先. He is the author of the Húzǐ héngqí 胡子衡齊 in 8 juǎn — a xīnxué exposition — and the literary collection Hénglú jīngshè cánggǎo KR4e0210. His guiding distinction — Buddhists jìngxīn → wú (clarify-mind → emptiness), Confucians jìnxīn → yǒu (exhaust-mind → being) — is one of the more articulate mid-Míng Wáng-school responses to the rùChán critique. The Sìkù tíyào approves his prose as yǎjiàn yǒu gé (elegant-strong with frame), without the yǔlù-excerpting habit of later Wángxué mòliú writers — explained by his pre-conversion gǔwéncí training before age 26. He composed the preface to Luó Hóngxiān’s Niànān wénjí KR4e0187. CBDB 34726.