Zhū Guī 朱珪 (1731–1806), zì Shíjūn 石君, hào Nányái 南厓 — native of Dàxīng 大興 (Beijing). Eminent Qiánlóng / Jiā-qìng-era jìnshì (1748, age 17 — extraordinarily young), eventually rising to Tǐréngé Dàxuéshì 體仁閣大學士 (Grand Secretary) and Tàizǐ tàifù 太子太傅 (Grand Tutor of the Heir Apparent — to the future Jiāqìng emperor whom he had personally tutored from boyhood). Renowned for his impeccable integrity and his Daoist-leanings; like his contemporary 彭定求 and his predecessor 陳廷敬, he combined orthodox-Confucian high office with private interest in Daoist yǎngshēng and merit-tract literature. As editor-reviewer (jìng jiào 敬校) he appears in KR5i0085 Yuán huáng dà dào zhēn jūn jiù jié bǎo jīng and KR5i0087 Yīn zhì wén zhù alongside 蔣予蒲 (Jiǎng Yǔpǔ) — making the two principal Daoist editor-reviewers of the original DZJY (1809) Beijing-and-Suī-yáng cell. CBDB ID 29954.
name: 朱珪 pinyinName: Zhū Guī alternateNames: [伯盛, Bóshèng, 朱伯盛] dynasty: 明 birthDate: deathDate: cbdbId: 33381 dilaAuthorityId: created: 2026-05-03 updated: 2026-05-03
Zhū Guī 朱珪 (fl. ca. 1340–1380), zì Bóshèng 伯盛, native of Kūnshān 崑山 (Sūzhōu prefecture, Jiāngsū). A late-Yuán to early-Míng seal-carver, zhuànlì calligrapher, and stone-rubbing master. He never held office. Yáng Wéizhēn 楊維楨 (1296–1370) composed his Fāngcùntiě zhì 方寸鐵志 (“Inscribed-iron of the Square Inch”) in his honour; he received commemorative poems from Zhèng Yuányòu 鄭元祐 (1292–1364), Lǐ Xiàoguāng 李孝光 (1285–1350), Zhāng Zhù 張翥 (1287–1368), Lù Yǒurén 陸友仁, Xiè Yīngfāng 謝應芳, Ní Zàn 倪瓚 (1301–1374), Zhāng Yǔ 張雨 (1283–1350), and Gù Āyíng 顧阿瑛 (1310–1369) — placing him at the centre of the late-Yuán SōngjiāngSūzhōu literary world. He compiled the Míngjì lù 名蹟錄 KR2n0028 (6 juan + 1 juan appendix) gathering inscriptions he had personally carved during the early Hóngwǔ era — the first Chinese book to be a “self-cut, self-anthologised” stone-rubbing collection. The Sìkù tíyào explicitly notes that some old recensions wrongly attributed him to the Yuán; the dynasty is securely Míng on the basis of the imperial documents he places at the head. CBDB 33381 records this Míng Zhū Guī but supplies no dates.