Chén Yuánjìng 陳元靚 (also read Chén Yuánliàng; fl. mid-13th century, late Southern Sòng), encyclopedist and compiler. Native place unrecorded — he signs himself “scion of the Guǎnghán immortals” (廣寒仙裔), a self-styled epithet generally taken as a reference to Guǎnghán in Sìchuān, though Liú Chún’s postface to the Suìshí guǎngjì simply calls him a “concealed gentleman” (yǐn jūnzǐ 隱君子) of the Guīfēng / Méixī 龜峯 / 梅谿 region. He held no recorded office. Not in CBDB.
Active under Sòng Lǐzōng (r. 1224–1264): the Sìkù editors fix his floruit on the basis of his acquaintance with 朱鑑 (1190–1258), grandson of Zhū Xī, who wrote the preface to the Suìshí guǎngjì while serving as zhī Wúwéijūn Cháoxiàn shì. Wilkinson dates his most famous work, the Shìlín guǎngjì 事林廣記, to “the end of Song”, with first extant edition Jiànyáng 1330–33 (Chinese History: A New Manual §72.1.3.1).
Within the Kanripo corpus he is the compiler of KR2j0001 Suìshí guǎngjì 歲時廣記 (4 j., a topical anthology of seasonal observances arranged by month). His other major work, the Shìlín guǎngjì 事林廣記 — one of the foundational Sòng–Yuán household-encyclopedias (rìyòng lèishū 日用類書) — falls outside the Sìkù and is not in the Kanripo corpus, but is the work for which he is principally known in modern scholarship. Both compilations share the same encyclopedic-by-category organizing impulse and signal a Fújiàn / Mǐnběi book-trade context.