Huáng Chè 黃徹 (fl. 1124–1168)
Zì Chángmíng 常明. Jìnshì of Xuānhé 6 (jiǎchén 甲辰, 1124) under Hui-zōng. Chén Zhènsūn 陳振孫’s Shūlù jiětí 書錄解題 gives Pǔtián 莆田 (Fújiàn) as his native place; the BāMǐn tōngzhì 八閩通志 gives Shàowǔ 邵武 (also Fújiàn). The Sìkù tíyào prefers Chén Zhènsūn’s notice as the closer in time. Authoritative biographical data is in the funerary inscription by Yáng Bāngbì 楊邦弼 cited in the postscript by Huáng’s grandson Huáng Tāo 黃燾 in the Bào household Zhībùzú zhāi 知不足齋 manuscript that the Sìkù editors used (cf. tíyào):
- Chénzhōu Chénxī xiàn chéng 辰州辰溪縣丞 (assistant magistrate);
- promoted xiànlìng (full magistrate) in the same county, serving five years;
- Yuánzhōu jūnshì pànguān 沅州軍事判官, then acting cì (assistant prefect) and acting magistrate of Máyáng 麻陽;
- Jiāyú xiànlìng 嘉魚縣令 of Èzhōu 鄂州;
- acting magistrate of Píngjiāng 平江 in Yuèzhōu 岳州, made full magistrate after six months;
- offended powerful men and resigned office.
Zhāng Jùn 張浚 wished to recruit him to his entourage; Huáng refused and lived out his days at home. The funerary inscription further records that he settled a Yáo 猺 (Yáo people) rebellion in Yuánzhōu, captured the bandit chief Cáo Chéng 曹成 in Máyáng, served as commissariat officer in Píngjiāng during the campaign against Yáng Yāo 楊么 (the Dòngtíng rebel suppressed 1135), all with credit; he was finally dismissed “for inability to humour customary practices.”
His one surviving work is the Gōngxī shīhuà 䂬溪詩話 (KR4i0024), prefaced by Chén Jùnqīng 陳俊卿 in Qiándào 4 (1168). The catalog meta’s date: 1124 refers to his jìnshì year, not the date of composition of the shīhuà, which is mid-twelfth-century (the Qiándào preface fixes a terminus ante quem of 1168).