Yu Yue (Chinese: 俞樾; December 1821 – 5 February 1907), courtesy name Yinfu, hao Quyuan,[1] was a prominent scholar and official of Qing dynasty China.

He then served successively in a variety of academic posts in the imperial bureaucracy, and was later promoted to educational instructor[7] of Henan, not long before his resigning from this position and withdrawing to Suzhou, where he became a private teacher and devoted himself full-time to classical studies.

As opposed to the then dominant goal of education—namely education as pathway towards an official career—Yu aimed to provide a non-political environment for classics studies and stressed philology and historical research during his teaching, an intellectual tradition initiated by Gu Yanwu and Dai Zhen.

[8] He memorably remarked that "holding a book transmitted and printed today and treating it as the true version of the ancients is like hearing people say that bamboo shoots are good to eat, and going home and cooking one's bed mat" (執今日傳刻之書, 而以爲是古人之眞本, 譬猶聞人言筍可食, 歸而煮其簀也).

[11] Yu maintained links with both the traditional philological school and scholars of new thoughts—to name a few, Song Xiangfeng and Zhuang Cunyu from Changzhou, who explored political messages carried in classics including the Gongyang Commentary and the Spring and Autumn Annals.