Lǐ Lǜyuán 李綠園 (1707–1790), personal name Lǐ Hǎiguān 李海觀, courtesy name (hào) Kǒngtáng 孔堂, was a native of Bǎoféng 寶豐 county, Hénán province. He passed the provincial examination (jǔrén 舉人) in 1735 and held minor official positions, but spent most of his life as a teacher and private scholar in Hénán. He is best known as the author of the 108-chapter vernacular novel Qílù Dēng 歧路燈 (KR4k0197), composed over several decades and substantially complete by ca. 1777–1790. The novel was little known during the Qīng dynasty; its major manuscripts stayed in Hénán and it was not printed until 1927. Its twentieth-century rediscovery and subsequent critical edition (Jì Qín 冀勤 ed., 1980) established Lǐ Lǜyuán as one of the significant novelists of the Qīng period. No CBDB record has been found under the name 李綠園; the CBDB entry id 273291 for 李綠 is a different individual with no dated information.