Tián Wén 田雯 (1635–1704), zì Zǐlún 子綸 (also Lúnxiá 綸霞), hào Shānjiāng 山䕬, of Dézhōu 德州 (Jǐnán prefecture, Shāndōng — the ancient Guǎngchuān region, renamed Chánghé during Sui to avoid Yángdì’s taboo, hence Tián’s interest in the Chánghé historical literature). CBDB id 55233; lifedates firm.
Jìnshì of Kāngxī 3 (1664, jiǎchén), appointed zhōngshū shèrén. Long Hànlín-and-administrative career rising to Hùbù shìláng (Vice-Minister of Revenue) and Guizhou Governor (1684, briefly). The Sìkù tíyào characterizes him as having tiānzī gāomài (Heaven-given lofty talent) and broad memorization, who attempted to jià Shìzhēn shàng (“surpass [Wáng] Shìzhēn from above”) through qílì (strange-and-ornate) compositions; the Sìkù’s assessment is that this attempt was unsuccessful but the resulting prose-and-poetry are not without distinction.
Major works: the present Gǔhuāntáng jí 古歡堂集 (KR4f0038) in 36 juan plus 2-juan appendix Qián shū 黔書 (his Guizhou ethnographic notebook from his short governorship there) and 10-juan Chánghé zhì jí kǎo 長河志籍考 (his historical-bibliographical study of his native Dézhōu region). 趙執信 Zhào Zhíxìn’s Tán lóng lù 談龍錄 criticizes Tián’s poetry as shī zhōng wú rén (“no person in the poetry”) — i.e., as overworked artifice without human voice — but allows that as a piān shī chí tū (lateral-army dashing) Tián successfully formed his own yī duì (squadron) and cannot be dismissed.