Jī Yǒngrén 嵇永仁 (1637–1676), zì Liúshān 留山, hào Bàodúshānnóng 抱犢山農 (“Farmer of Bàodú Mountain”), of Wúxī 無錫 (Sūzhōu / Chángzhōu prefecture). CBDB id 89886; lifedates firm.
Descended from the Jìn-dynasty Shìzhōng Jī Shào 嵇紹 (son of 嵇康 Jī Kāng); his clan was originally seated at Yúshān (Chángshú), his father held Zhōngshū office at Jīnlíng (Nánjīng), and Yǒngrén himself settled at Liángxī (Wúxī) on travels. Bóshì dìzǐ yuán (provincial student) at 16; lifelong scholar of medicine and kǎozhèng without ever passing higher examinations. In kāngxī rénzǐ (1672), through old family connections, joined the mùfǔ (secretarial bureau) of 范承謨 Fàn Chéngmó, the Fújiàn governor-general — Fàn’s father 范文程 and Yǒngrén’s father had been earlier friends.
When the rebel feudatory 耿精忠 Gěng Jīngzhōng revolted in Fúzhōu in jiǎyín (Kāngxī 13, 1674), Yǒngrén was imprisoned with Fàn Chéngmó and other loyal staff. Both died in captivity: Fàn Chéngmó in 1676 (per the Fàn Zhōngzhēn jí KR4f0017), Yǒngrén the same year. Yǒngrén’s prison poems — composed with neither brush nor paper, written on the cell-walls in charcoal-dust — were preserved by local Fújiàn admirers who valued his integrity, then recovered in guǐchǒu (Kāngxī 12 / actually post-1681 after the Sān fān pacification). Posthumously honored as guózǐjiàn zhùjiào in Kāngxī 41 (1702). His son 嵇曾筠 Jī Zēngyún (1670–1738), then six years old at his father’s death, became one of the leading Yōngzhèng-Qiánlóng-era senior officials and water-conservancy chief.
Author of the Bàodú shānfáng jí 抱犢山房集 (KR4f0028) — the 6-juan posthumous collection of his prison-poetry (Jíjí yín, Bǎi kǔ yín, Hè lèi pǔ) plus his pre-imprisonment Jiāqiū jí 葭秋集 and Zhúlín jí 竹林集, edited by his son Jī Zēngyún and printed in the Yōngzhèng period. His biography by 姜垐 Jiāng Cì heads the fùlù.