Táo Zhīdiǎn 陶之典 (b. 1622, d. after 1660), Níngxiāng 寧鄉 (Húguǎng / Húnán) yímín scholar and eldest son of the Chóngzhēn-era Hànlín and late-Míng poet Táo Rǔnài 陶汝鼐 (1601–1683; biéhào Júyán 菴延 / 菊延, hào Míyíng 密菴, yángchéng wàishǐ 羊城外史). Self-identified in his signature as yì xuérén 邑學人 (i.e. a native shēngyuán of Níngxiāng county — the local sub-provincial degree-holder level, not a jìnshì). His best-attested surviving composition is the front 敘 敘 (dated Shùnzhì 17 gēngzǐ 4.8 / Buddha’s birthday = 17 May 1660) to the one-juan yǔlù of Yǎngzhuō Zhèngmíng 正明 of Dàwéi Mìyìnsì (KR6q0401) — an extended literary xù dense with allusions to the lineage of Dàwéishān from Língyòu down to Wǔfēng Rúxué and thence to Zhèngmíng and Huìshān Zhìhǎi, and documenting both his own and his father’s participation in the 1658 rebuild of Mìyìnsì under Zhìhǎi’s abbacy. The 敘 explicitly names his father (“家君太史公”) as the author of the embedded Mìyìn chánsì bēijì (the Táo Júyán piece dated Shùnzhì wùxū summer = 1658) which Zhīdiǎn personally sponsored for engraving alongside the Níngxiāng zhōngchéng Guō Dūxián 郭都賢 (Zīyáng)‘s sēngtián jì. Zhīdiǎn is thus a direct link between the Níngxiāng yímín literary-Buddhist network around the elder Táo Rǔnài (see Wáng Fànsēn’s quánlì de máoxìguǎn zuòyòng) and the Mìyìnsì rebuild under Huìshān Zhìhǎi; he is not in DILA Buddhist authority but is attested in CBDB (id 87856, with birth year 1622 and no known death date). Death date uncertain; fl. 1658–1660.