Early-Qīng man of letters and literary critic; native of Guīān 歸安 (modern Húzhōu 湖州 prefecture, Zhèjiāng). Zì Dànshēng 旦生. CBDB (personid 78567) gives an index year of 1611 (his presumed birth year); his death year is not in the standard biographical record. He lived through the Míng-Qīng transition and into the early Kāngxī period. His one major work, the massive Lìdài shīhuà 歷代詩話 (80 juǎn) — modelled on Hú Zǐ 胡仔’s Tiáoxī yúyǐn cónghuà 苕溪漁隱叢話 (KR4i0014) and Chén Yàowén 陳耀文’s Xuélín jiù zhèng 學林就正 — is a comprehensive, chronologically-organized synthesis of pre-existing shīhuà judgments running from the Shījīng through the Míng. The work survived only in an apparently uncorrected draft (the Sìkù editors note traces of editorial deletion-marks within the manuscript) and is the principal source of his reputation. Beyond the compilation little is recorded of his life; he held no recorded office.