Gōng Xǔ 龔詡 (1382–1469), zì Dàzhāng 大章, hào Yěgǔ 野古 (his self-deprecating studio name combining yě “rustic” and gǔ “antique-and-upright”). Native of Kūnshān 崑山 (Sūzhōu, Jiāngsū). His father Gōng Chá 詧, jǐshìzhōng under Hóngwǔ, was banished by yánshì censure to garrison Wǔkāiwèi 五開衛, and Gōng Xǔ was therefore enrolled in the military registry and stationed as a guard at the Jīnchuānmén 金川門 of Nánjīng — the very gate at which the Jiànwén regime fell when the Yān army arrived (1402). On the Yǒnglè usurpation, Gōng Xǔ changed his name and surname, fled, and lived out 67 years selling drugs and teaching pupils in the Sūzhōu / Sōngjiāng area. Twice in the late 1430s recommended by Zhōu Chén 周忱 (the great Jiāngnán xúnfǔ) for xuéguān posts at Sōngjiāng and Tàicāng; refused both, telling Censor-in-Chief Wú Nè 吳訥: “Office in itself does no harm to righteousness — but I fear betraying that one weeping at the city-gate.” Died Chénghuà jǐchǒu (1469) at age 88. Míng shǐ j. 143 appended to the Niú Jǐngxiān 牛景先 biography. Surviving works are KR4e0080 Yěgǔ jí. CBDB id 34464 (1382–1469); the catalog meta’s death-year 1467 is a slip — the tíyào’s jǐchǒu (Chénghuà 5 = 1469) and the aged 88 figure agree on 1469.