Huáng Zhòngyán 黃仲炎
Style name Ruòhuì 若晦. Native of Yǒngjiā 永嘉 (modern Wēnzhōu, Zhèjiāng). Active in the late Southern Sòng (Shàodìng to Duānpíng era, c. 1228–1236). Lifedates not preserved.
The SKQS tíyào (under KR1e0050) characterises him as an examination-failed scholar (lǎo ér bù dì zhī shì 老而不第之士) — Lǐ Míngfù’s 李鳴復 memorial of recommendation calls him “outside the kējǔ, a deep-and-persistent classical scholar, an old man who never passed.” His own memorial of presentation acknowledges: “I have laboured at examination essay forms with no success.” This places him outside the standard official-classicist trajectory and within the broader Yǒngjiā examination-prep classical tradition.
His one surviving work is the Chūnqiū tōng shuō 春秋通說 in 13 juan (KR1e0050) — composed in Shàodìng 3 (1230) and presented to the throne via Lǐ Míngfù’s recommendation in Duānpíng 3 (1236). The work’s distinctive thesis — that the Chūnqiū is a jiào jiè zhī shū 教戒之書 (book of instruction-and-admonition), not a bāo biǎn zhī shū 褒貶之書 (book of praise-and-blame) — explicitly rests on Zhū Xī’s authority and anticipates Lǚ Dàguī’s 呂大圭 Chūnqiū huò wèn in this position. The SKQS editors are unusually warm toward Huáng, judging that on the central question of Confucius’ editorial method his reading is “far beyond what Hú Ānguó could attain.”
CBDB id 48753 records the name without lifedates.