Shēn Jiāyìn 申佳胤 (1603 – 25 April 1644), zì Kǒngjiā 孔嘉, hào Jùnyuán 濬源 and Sùyuán 素園; native of Yǒngnián 永年 (Guǎngpíng prefecture, modern Hándān, Héběi). Lost his father at six and grew up in poverty, his mother supporting the household by weaving. Shēngyuán of Wànlì 48 / 1620; jǔrén of Tiānqǐ 1 / xīnyǒu (1621); jìnshì of Chóngzhēn 4 / xīnwèi (1631), at the 95th place of the third jiǎ. Appointed magistrate of Yífēngxiàn 儀封縣 in Hénán Kāifēng prefecture in Chóngzhēn 6 / 1633 — though the Sìkù tiyao of his Shēn Zhōngmǐn shījí (KR4e0242) writes the place-name as Qǐxiàn 杞縣 (also Kāifēng prefecture; likely a transfer or possibly a tiyao slip). At Yífēng / Qǐxiàn he held the isolated county-seat by force of arms against repeated liúkòu assaults and broke the Sǎodìwáng 掃地王 rebel-band’s investment of the town. In Chóngzhēn 13 / 1640 he was promoted to Lìbù kǎogōngsī yuánwàiláng, where his even-handed evaluations of officials offended Wēn Tǐrén 溫體仁 and Xuē Guóguān 薛國觀, and (because his huìshì examiner Wén Ānzhī 文安之 had been factionally targeted) he was demoted to Nánjīng Guózǐjiān bóshì. He rose again to Dàlǐsì píngshì and finally to Tàipúsì chéng (Vice Director, Court of the Imperial Stud) inspecting the pasturages near the capital. On hearing that Lǐ Zìchéng had taken Jūyōngguān and was investing Běijīng, although he was outside the capital and could have hidden, Shēn returned in haste; on the twelfth day of the third month of Chóngzhēn 17 he reached the city through the hills, on the nineteenth (= 25 April 1644) the city fell and the Chóngzhēn emperor hanged himself at Méishān, and Shēn himself died for the dynasty the same day, aged forty-two. His final letter to his eldest son 申涵光 survives: ‘Right conduct is what I call yì, accord with the times is what I call mìng; yì cannot be betrayed, mìng cannot be transgressed.’ The Southern-Míng Hóngguāng court raised him to Tàipúsì shǎoqīng and canonised Jiémǐn 節愍; the Qīng Shùnzhì court bestowed Duānmǐn 端愍, and a later re-canonisation (recorded in the Sìkù tiyao) confirmed Zhōngmǐn 忠愍 — the title borne by the WYG. Under the Yōng-zhèng-era taboo on the imperial personal name (Yōngzhèng 胤禛), 胤 in his name was replaced by 允, hence the consistent Shēn Jiāyǔn 申佳允 (or 佳荫 / 佳印) of Sìkù-era and 18th-century texts; modern usage restores 胤. CBDB 127102. Míngshǐ j. 266.