Late-Yuán / early-Míng literatus of Wúxìng 吳興 (in Húzhōu, Zhèjiāng). Style-name Zhāoyuán 昭原; the family-seat at Huāxī 花谿 in Guīān supplied his sobriquet. He passed the post-Zhì-yuán jǐmǎo (1339) xiāngjiàn (provincial selection); appointed Wùyuánzhōu xuézhèng, transferred to Wǔkāng magistrate; resigned in the late Zhìzhèng era and retired home. In the early Hóngwǔ he was summoned as xiánliáng and declined; but he did accept commissions to serve as xiàowén guān (examiner of literary work) in Zhèjiāng and Fújiàn three times, and as tóngkǎo of the metropolitan examination twice. Míng Tàizǔ called him approvingly “lǎo shìguān” (old examiner); recognizing his determination, he did not force office on him. He lived almost ninety years (1307–1399 — CBDB id 439056). The Sìkù tíyào compilers explicitly place him in the same moral jiē (rank) as Yáng Wéizhēn 楊維楨 (who participated in the Yuán shǐ compilation under the Míng) and Hú Xíngjiǎn 胡行簡 (see KR4d0583) — one rank below the absolutely refusing Dīng Hènián (KR4d0557) but one rank above those who took Míng office for advancement. He was married into the family of Zhào Mèngfǔ 趙孟頫 (Zǐáng) and inherited Zhào’s poetic method; his seven-character regulated verse was so admired that he was called Shěn bājù “Shěn the Eight-Line Master”. His Huāxī jí 花谿集 (KR4d0582) was nearly lost after his family was punished in the Hóngwǔ-era disgrace and his descendants exiled to the northern frontier; his fifth-generation grand-nephew Shěn Qīng 沈清, Xíngbù lángguān, recovered a fraction of the original on a southern circuit and had it reprinted with a Hóngzhì 6 (1493) preface by Péng Sháo 彭韶.