Mid-Míng 明 Shàngshū critic, native of Sūzhōu 蘇州 in southern Jiāngsū. Zì Liángguì 良貴; hào Shēnbō 蓡波. Lifedates not securely recorded; floruit defensibly mid-sixteenth century. Friend and intellectual associate of Lǐ Běn 李本 (1502–1583), and his canonical exegesis is, per the Sìkù tíyào on his Shàngshū biān cài biān 尚書砭蔡編 (KR1b0041), “often similar to Lǐ Běn’s.” His one Shàngshū work is the present Biān cài biān — a focused 1-juǎn critique of Cài Shěn’s Shū jízhuàn (KR1b0017), the title’s biān 砭 (“to lance / to bleed [with a stone needle]”) signaling its corrective intent.
The Shū biān cài biān was little circulated. Zhū Yízūn’s Jīngyì kǎo records it but marks “wèi jiàn” 未見 (not seen). The Sìkù copy was recovered from Cáo Róng’s 曹溶 Xué hǎi lèi biān 學海類編 (a major late-Míng / early-Qīng cóng shū compilation) under the alternate title Shàngshū Cài zhù kǎo wù 尚書蔡註考誤; the original Yuán Rén / Shěn Dàoyuán 沈道原 preface to the work uses the Biān cài biān title, which the Sìkù compilers adopt as the authentic original (with the Jīngyì kǎo title agreeing). Cáo Róng’s habitual practice of altering titles for novelty’s sake (duō gǎi yì jiù míng yǐ shì xīn yì 多改易舊名以示新異) is explicitly flagged by the Sìkù compilers as unreliable.