Wèi Qìngzhī 魏慶之, zì Chúnfǔ 醇甫, hào Júzhuāng 菊莊, was a native of Jiàn’ān 建安 (modern Jiàn’ōu 建甌, Fújiàn). His lifedates are not preserved; the catalog meta and the Sìkù tíyào place his floruit in the middle of the thirteenth century, with a firm anchor at the Chúnyòu jiǎchén 淳祐甲辰 (1244) preface that Huáng Shūyáng 黄叔暘 wrote for his Shīrén yùxiè 詩人玉屑 KR4i0036. Huáng’s preface and the brief notice in the Sìkù tíyào portray him as a man who “had talent but did not stoop to the examinations” (有才而不屑科第): he kept “a thousand clumps of chrysanthemums” at his garden and spent his days drinking and reciting verse with poets and recluses — a typical figure of the Sòngmò jiānghú 江湖 literary set. CBDB id 52750 carries no dates. The Shīrén yùxiè, his sole surviving work, is the standard mid-thirteenth-century anthology of shīhuà-style remarks, gathering by topic the critical observations of dozens of earlier Sòng authorities (especially Yán Yǔ 嚴羽, Yáng Wànlǐ 楊萬里, Jiāng Kuí 姜夔 Báishí, Zhū Xī 朱熹 Huì’ān, and others); the Sìkù editors rank it alongside Hú Zǐ’s 胡仔 Tiáoxī yúyǐn cónghuà 苕溪漁隱叢話 (KR4i0024) as the most useful of the great Sòng shīhuà compendia.