Zhū Shàn 朱善
Zì Bèiwàn 備萬, hào Yīzhāi 一齋. Native of Fēngchéng 豐城 (modern Jiāngxī). In the Hóngwǔ era (1368–98) rose to Wényuān gé dàxuéshì 文淵閣大學士. Míngshǐ attaches his record to the biography of Liú Sānwú 劉三吾.
Author of Shī jiě yí 詩解頤 in 4 juǎn (KR1c0034). The Sìkù editors note his careful evidentiary citations: he draws on Jīn Lǚxiáng 金履祥’s Tài Wáng jiǎn Shāng in supplementing the Jí zhuàn, and refutes Xiàng Ānshì’s identification of Jié bǐ Nán Shān’s Shēnbó / Juéfù / Huángfù / Yǐnshì with the figures of King Xuān’s reign by computing that King Xuān reigned 46 years and these “old persons” cannot all have served. The Míngshǐ additionally records his refutation of the legal prohibition of marriage between cousins on the maternal side — described as “exceptionally well-cited and accurate.” The Sìkù editors take him as evidence that the Yuán Confucians’ “solid and substantial style” survived into the early Míng before being displaced by the later Míng “empty-talk lofty discussion” tradition.