Late-Yuán / early-Míng literatus of Pǔyáng 浦陽 (Wùzhōu 婺州, modern Pǔjiāng, Zhèjiāng). Style-name Shūnéng 叔能; sobriquet Jiǔlíng shānrén 九靈山人 (“Mountain Man of Nine-Numinous”). He studied under Liǔ Guàn 柳貫 and Huáng Jìn 黃溍 — the two great Jīnhuá Yuán-period prose masters and Hànlín dàizhì — and was the most famous fellow-student of Sòng Lián 宋濂 in that lineage. Initially aiming at official service in the Yuán, he ultimately retreated to Zhèdōng coastal hill country (the Sìmíng 四明 region) and lived as a recluse, devoting himself to writing. He composed extensively for the West-Asian-descent Yuán yílǎo (loyalist) Dīng Hènián 丁鶴年 (KR4d0557), supplying the major preface to Dīng’s poetic collection. Under the Míng he was recalcitrant: he was summoned but did not effectively serve; the Míng shǐ places him in the Wényuàn zhuàn. His Jiǔlíng shānfáng jí 九靈山房集 (KR4d0569) — thirty juǎn with an additional Hé Táo jí 和陶集 (Responses to Táo Qián) — was first cut in print by his great-great-nephews in Zhèngtǒng jiǎzǐ (1444). His other major work is the Chūnqiū jīngzhuàn kǎo 春秋經傳考 in 32 juǎn, prefaced by Sòng Lián but unprinted in Dài’s lifetime.