Yuán-period 元 poet, calligrapher, and educational official; son of the Sòng-loyalist martyr Gōng Jì 龔潗. Zì Zǐjìng 子敬. Native of Gāoyóu 高郵 (modern Jiāngsū); relocated to Píngjiāng 平江 (Sūzhōu).
Family background. Father Gōng Jì held the late-Sòng office of Sīnóngqīng 司農卿 (Court Provisions Chief); after the Sòng fall (1276), Gōng Jì refused food and starved to death — a major Sòng-loyalist martyr.
Career. Young when the Sòng fell. Recruited by the Yuán xiànshǐ Xú Yǎn 徐琰 as a mùxià (staff secretary). Held a series of educational posts:
- Shānzhǎng of the Héjìng shūyuàn 和靖書院 and Xuédào shūyuàn 學道書院
- Níngguólù rúxué jiàoshòu 寧國路儒學教授
- Shàngráo zhǔbù 上饒主簿
- Yíchūnchéng 宜春丞
- Retired as Zhèjiāng rúxué fùtíjǔ 浙江儒學副提舉
Literary and calligraphic distinction. Shèng Yí’s Jiā-jìng-period Wéiyáng zhì records Gōng as “good at composing prose, [his] mind set on studying calligraphy — having the bearing of a Jìn-person” (yǒu Jìnrén fēngdù 有晉人風度). His calligraphic tíbá (colophons) were preserved by the Míng connoisseur Zhū Cúnlǐ 朱存理 in his Tiěwǎng shānhú 鐵網珊瑚, and gathered as the bǔyí (supplement) to the Sìkù base of his Cúnhuǐzhāi gǎo. The Sìkù editors evaluate his poetry as kàngshuǎng (vigorous-and-clear) and praise it as dú kāi shēngmiàn (uniquely opening fresh aspects) within the Yuán-poetry corpus.
Within the Kanripo corpus. KR4d0457 Cúnhuǐzhāi gǎo 存悔齋稿 (撰).