Fàn Jùn 范浚 (1102–1151)
Zì Màomíng 茂明; hào Xiāngxī xiānshēng 香溪先生 (after his Xiāng River residence). Native of Lánjiāng 蘭江 in Wùzhōu 婺州 (modern Jīnhuá 金華, Zhèjiāng). Lifedates 1102–1151 per CBDB id 16888 (the catalog gives 1102–1149; 1151 is the conventionally received death year and is followed here).
A reclusive Lǐxué scholar. His paternal lineage was a literary-bureaucratic house; his uncles were prefects and cìshǐ; but Fàn himself, by his own preference, “had no thought of advancement” and refused office. On Gāozōng’s accession (1127) the zhìjǔ 制舉 (special selected-recommendation) program was reopened; some at court proposed Fàn’s name, but he firmly declined. He lived all his adult life in Xiāngxī, in a single bare room, teaching disciples and composing.
His enduring fame rests on a single 60-character meditation poem, the Xīn zhēn 心箴 (“Inscription on the Mind”). Zhū Xī subsequently transcribed it in full in his Mèngzǐ jízhù commentary on Mèngzǐ 6A.15 (“Xiān lì hū qí dà zhě”). Through Zhū’s Sìshū jízhù canonization, Fàn Jùn became one of very few non-Cheng-Zhu pre-canonical Lǐxué figures whose words entered the late-imperial school curriculum by name.
His other zhēn-cycle works — the Ěrmù zhēn (Ear-and-Eye), the Xù Dānyǐ liù zhēn (Continuation of Lǐ Déyù’s Six zhēn of the Cinnabar-Folding-Screen) — and his prose discourses (Chǐ shuō 恥說, Huǐ shuō 悔說, ShùnZhí tú 舜蹠圖) constitute one of the most concentrated Lǐxué programs in the Southern Sòng biéjí tradition.
Surviving in Kanripo:
- KR4d0211 Xiāngxī xiānshēng wénjí (22 juǎn, SBCK; edited by his nephew Fàn Duānchén 范端臣).