Chén Yù 陳郁 (d. c. 1275; CBDB id 29582), zì Zhòngwén 仲文, hào Cángyī 藏一, was a late-Southern-Sòng literatus of Línchuān 臨川 (Jiāngxī). Under Lǐzōng he served as Jíxīdiàn yìngzhì 緝熙殿應制 (court-entertainer) and as Dōnggōng jiǎngtáng zhǎngshū (Crown Prince’s Lecture-Hall Secretary). Dùzōng once composed a zàn (eulogy) on his portrait with the lines “his prose peers into the Western Hàn; his poetry reaches the High Táng” — exceptional imperial favour. His career-record survives only fragmentarily through his son Chén Shìchóng’s Suí yǐn màn lù 隨隱漫錄. Yuè Kē’s preface to the Cángyī huà yú describes him as “closing his gate all day, exhaustively studying books and registers; his foot never touched the threshold of slander-or-praise; his body never entered the gates of power.” Yet Liú Xūn’s Yǐn jū tōng yì preserves an imperial-handwritten note from Dùzōng critically commenting on Chén Yù and his son’s bēilòu (meanness). Zhōu Mì’s Wǔ lín jiù shì lists Chén Yù among the yùqián yìngzhì (court-entertainers) — 4th in a list headed by Jiāng Tèlì 姜特立, whose Sòng shǐ biography is in the Nìng xìng zhuàn (Sycophants Biography). His one surviving work is the Cáng yī huà yú 藏一話腴 (KR3j0131) in 4 juàn (divided jiǎ and yǐ jí, each with shàng and xià); his son Chén Shìchóng’s Suí yǐn màn lù is separately catalogued.