Shào Bó 邵博
Style name Gōngjì 公濟. Native of Hénánfǔ 河南府 (Luòyáng). Active span fl. 1138–1158 per CBDB (id 20866; the CBDB row gives c_fl_earliest_year=1138, c_fl_latest_year=1158, c_index_year=1095 — the fl. span is internally consistent, and 1158 is normally read as Shào Bó’s death year, with the work’s own preface of Shàoxīng 27 (= 1157) and a Sòngshǐ note placing his death in the following year). His birth year is not securely recorded; if his father 邵伯溫 Shào Bówēn (1057–1134) is taken as a reference and the CBDB index year 1095 is treated as a zhìshì 至仕 anchor, a birth in the late 1080s or early 1090s is plausible.
Grandson of 邵雍 Shào Yōng 邵雍 (1011–1077, Kāngjié 康節), the xiāntiān 先天 Yì-numerologist and one of the canonical Běi Sòng wǔzǐ 北宋五子. Son of 邵伯溫 Shào Bówēn 邵伯溫 (1057–1134), author of KR3l0066 Wénjiàn qián lù 聞見前錄 and the principal editor of Shào Yōng’s Huángjí jīngshì shū 皇極經世書. The three-generation lineage 邵雍 → 邵伯溫 → 邵博 is one of the better-documented Northern-into-Southern-Sòng family-school transmissions, the family being attached to the Luòyáng dàoxué milieu (Chéng brothers, Sīmǎ Guāng) but increasingly defining itself against the ChéngYí line.
Held provincial office under the early Southern Sòng; sources record him as Tōngpàn 通判 of various prefectures in the Shàoxīng period and as having ended his career as a jiānwù 監務 (commissioner) in Sìchuān, where his father had also served (as Lìlù zhuǎnyùn fùshǐ 利路轉運副使). The Sòngshǐ attaches a brief notice of Shào Bó to the end of his father’s Rúlín 儒林 biography (juàn 433) rather than giving him an independent treatment, an asymmetry that reflects the dàoxué-tradition discomfort with Shào Bó’s open polemic against the Chéng brothers.
His principal surviving work is KR3l0069 Wénjiàn hòu lù 聞見後錄 in 30 juàn, the continuation of his father’s Qián lù (preface 1157). The work breaks with the family’s earlier alignment with the ChéngYí school: it openly pái Chéngshì ér zōng Sū Shì 排程氏而宗蘇軾 — repudiates the Chéng school and embraces the Sū Shì 蘇軾 circle — and the Sìkù compilers read this as the family’s retaliation against the Chéng disciples (notably 游酢 Yóu Zuò and 謝良佐 Xiè Liángzuǒ) who, in their judgment, had sought to elevate the Chéng shīmén by suppressing the memory of Shào Yōng after his death in 1077. Shào Bó’s three-juàn compilation of Yí Mèng 疑孟 (“doubts about Mencius”) writings, his defence of the Bìyún xiá 碧雲騢 as authentically by Méi Yáochén 梅堯臣, his attack on Zhào Dǐng 趙鼎 for following the Luò school, and his deprecation of Chéng Yí’s Yīchuān Yì zhuàn 伊川易傳 all flow from this polemical stance.
A secondary work, the Shàoshì gāozhāi shīhuà 邵氏高齋詩話 (incomplete; surviving fragments collected in the Quán Sòng shīhuà), preserves Shào Bó’s poetic criticism, congruent with the shīhuà sections of the Hòu lù in its preference for the SūHuáng school.