Fāng Chéngpéi 方成培 (zì Zhòngmò 仲謀, also Yǎnxià 研霞; hào Qiūshān 岫山, 1731–1789), Qīng scholar of Xīn’ān 新安 (Shèxiàn 歙縣, modern Anhui), active in both literary-dramatic and medical fields. CBDB id 72521.
Fāng is best known to literary history as the redactor of the great Qīng version of Léifēngtǎ chuánqí 雷峰塔傳奇 (preface dated 1771), the version which became the principal textual source of the Báishé zhuàn 白蛇傳 (White-Snake Tale) tradition in Peking Opera and other regional theatres. His scholarly milieu was that of Xīn’ān kǎozhèng learning associated with Dài Zhèn 戴震.
In medicine, Fāng was a close associate of the laryngology specialist 鄭宏綱 Zhèng Hónggāng (1727–1787), within Xīn’ān’s tightly-knit physician community. He is the author of Chónglóu yùyuè xùbiān 重樓玉鑰續編 (KR3em018), a direct continuation of Zhèng’s foundational throat-discipline classic KR3em017 Chónglóu yùyuè, supplementing it with detailed sections on yágān 牙疳 gum-erosion, gǔcáofēng 骨槽風 mandibular osteomyelitis, and zǒumǎyágān 走馬牙疳 cancrum oris / noma, and importing the Yánghé tāng 陽和湯 line of warming-dissolving formulae from Wáng Wéidé’s Wàikē zhèngzōng into the hóukē corpus. The combined parent + supplement is the textual core of late-Qīng throat-medicine. Fāng’s medical work was composed during his lifetime (1750s–1789); the 1838 Dàoguāng postface that sometimes appears in citations belongs to the Féng Xiāngfēn / Sūn Xuéshī Sūzhōu editio princeps of 1839, not to the original composition.