Wàn Mínyīng 萬民英
Style name Yùwú 育吾; sobriquet Yùwú shānrén 育吾山人 (Mountain-Recluse Yùwú). Native of Dàníng dūsī 大寧都司 (in modern Inner Mongolia / Héběi border region — a Míng-period military-administrative unit). Jìnshì of Jiājìng gēngxū (1550); served as Hénán Dào jiānchá yùshǐ (Hé-nán-circuit Investigating Censor) and Fújiàn bùzhèngsī yòucānyì (Fújiàn Right-Provincial-Administration Officer). Birth and death years not securely recorded.
A late-Míng xīngmìng polymath, author of two of the principal xīngmìng compendia of the late imperial period:
(1) Xīngxué dàchéng 星學大成 (KR3g0041) in 30 juàn — the principal late-Míng Wǔxīng (Five-Planet) astrological compendium. The Sìkù 提要 of KR3g0041 notes that the Míng Yìwén zhì and Huáng Yúzhī’s Qiānqǐngtáng shūmù incorrectly attribute this work to Lù Wèi 陸位; the present recension’s preface and editorial principles confirm Wàn Mínyīng’s authorship.
(2) Sānmìng tōnghuì 三命通會 (KR3g0042) in 12 juàn — the principal late-Míng Zǐpíngshù (Eight-Character) fate-divination compendium. The Sìkù 提要 of KR3g0042 notes that the Míng Yìwén zhì records the work as Sānmìng huìtōng by Wàn Mínyù 萬民育 — but this is a transmission-error: the actual author is Wàn Mínyīng (with the yùwú sobriquet creating the confusion with yùwú / Mínyù), and the standard title is Sānmìng tōnghuì.
Together these two works are universally regarded as the foundational late-Míng synthetic references for Chinese fate-divination — one for the Wǔxīng (planetary-astrological) tradition, one for the Zǐpíngshù (eight-character) tradition. The Sìkù preserves both as the principal late-imperial reference for their respective divinatory schools.