Yuán-period 元 plum-blossom-poetry specialist and jíjù (collected-couplet) virtuoso. Self-styled Méiyán yěrén 梅巖野人 (“Plum-Cliff Wild-Man”). Native place uncertain — the Sìkù editors note the absence of lǐjí (native-place) record. CBDB 107876 records fl. 1280; the self-preface to his collection dates to Zhìdà xīnhài (1311), placing active period c. 1290s–1311+.
Sole known work. Méihuā zìzì xiāng KR4d0485 in qiánjí + hòují (1+1 juàn) — a 200-piece jíjù (collected-couplet) anthology of plum-blossom 7-syllable lǜshī (regulated verse) composed entirely of borrowed lines from classical Chinese plum-poetry. The Sìkù editors’ evaluation: extending the jíjù method from quatrains (Lǐ Lóng’s earlier Jiǎnxiāo jí tradition) to the more difficult 8-line regulated-verse form with parallel-couplet constraints; opening a “new realm” by jíjù method against the stylistic exhaustion of Southern-Sòng plum-poetry.
Self-confession (per the original preface): “I love plum-flowers, [so I] self-styled Méiyán yěrén. Whenever [I] saw ancient-and-modern poets’ plum-flower outstanding-works, [I] necessarily by-hand copied-recorded them and chanted them; accumulating across years-and-months, these became [a] giant compilation. Familiar [with them] long, [I] seemed to have [my own] insight; in spare days [I] then collected their lines, obtaining 100 pieces, titled Zìzì xiāng.”
Within the Kanripo corpus. KR4d0485 Méihuā zìzì xiāng 梅花字字香 (撰).