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 MíngQīng 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.