Southern-Sòng cí-master and patriot-statesman (1140–1207); zì Yòuān 幼安, hào Jiàxuān jūshì 稼軒居士 (“Recluse of the Plowman’s Studio”), of Lìchéng 歷城 (Jǐnán, Shāndōng) — born in territory under Jīn occupation. The supreme master of the háofàng 豪放 (“heroic-and-roaming”) line of the cí and, with Sū Shì 蘇軾, one of the two greatest cí-writers of the Sòng. Joined the Jīn-resisting insurgent army of Gěng Jīng 耿京 at age 22; in Shàoxīng 32 / 1162, with fifty horsemen, raided the Jīn camp to capture the defector Zhāng Ānguó 張安國 and bring him alive to the Sòng court for execution — one of the iconic individual exploits of Sòng history. Joined the Sòng officialdom thereafter; served as Vice-Magistrate, Prefect, and Ānfǔ shǐ across Húběi, Húnán, Jiāngxī, and Zhèjiāng through Lóngxīng–Chúnxī; recurringly dismissed for proposing northern recovery; long forced retirement at his Shàngráo 上饒 Jiàxuān estate during Chúnxī–Shàoxī (the years of his greatest cí production). Briefly recalled under Hán Tuōzhòu 韓侂胄’s Kāixǐ Běifá preparations; died at Qiānshān (Jiāngxī) in Kāixǐ 3 / 1207. His cí corpus, in the Jiàxuān cí KR4j0040 (4 juǎn Sìkù form, descending from the Sòng “Xìnzhōu cut” of 12 juǎn), runs to around 626 pieces — the largest single-author Sòng cí corpus. Famous cí include Yǒngyù lè · Qiāngǔ jiāngshān (Jīngkǒu 1205, with closing Píng shuí wèn, Lián Pō lǎo yǐ, shàng néng fàn fǒu), Mó yú ér · Gēng néng xiāo (Húnán c. 1180), Qīngyù àn · Dōngfēng yè fàng huā qiān shù (the Yuánxī piece), and the Hè xīn láng pieces exchanged with Chén Liàng 陳亮 at Goose-Lake 1188. Standard modern edition: Dèng Guǎngmíng 鄧廣銘, Jiàxuān cí biānnián jiānzhù 稼軒詞編年箋註 (Shànghǎi gǔjí, rev. 1993) and Xīn Jiàxuān niánpǔ 辛稼軒年譜 (Shànghǎi rénmín, rev. 1979).