Sòng official from Jìxī 績溪 (modern Anhui), courtesy name Rǔmíng 汝明. He took the jìnshì in Dàguān 3 (1109) and held office during the late Northern Sòng and early Southern Sòng. In the Jìngkāng period he served as attendant censor (shìyùshǐ 侍御史); after the southern crossing he was prefect of Lúzhōu 廬州, with credit for repelling Jurchen incursions, and ended as Pacification Commissioner of Guǎngxī 廣西經略使. His career is overshadowed by his entanglement with the chancellor Qín Huì 秦檜: when he sought to build a shrine to Qín’s father, the prefect Gāo Dēng 高登 refused; Hú impeached Dēng to please Qín, but later himself fell foul of Qín on another matter and died in prison in 1143. He is the dedicatee and instigator (rather than the actual compiler) of the Kǒngzǐ biānnián 孔子編年 (KR2g0001), which his son 胡仔 produced at his command and to which he wrote a preface dated Shàoxīng 8 (1138).