Shěn Bǐ 沈棐
Style name Wénbó 文伯 — per the preface by Chén Liàng 陳亮 (1143–1194) preserved in the SKQS tíyào on KR1e0042 Chūnqiū bǐ shì. Native of Húzhōu 湖州, said to have served as school official (xiàoguān 校官) at Wùzhōu 婺州. Career and lifedates otherwise unrecoverable.
The authorship of the Chūnqiū bǐ shì is contested. Chén Liàng’s preface attributes it to Shěn Bǐ; but Chén Zhènsūn’s Shū lù jiětí identifies a “Shěn Wénbó” of Húzhōu as Shěn Chángqīng 沈長卿 (sobriquet Shěnzhāi jūshì 審齋居士), prefect of Chángzhōu, exiled by Qín Guì 秦檜 to Huàzhōu — explicitly stating “not Bǐ.” Chén Zhènsūn raises the possibility of two distinct persons sharing the zì Wénbó, but cannot resolve the matter. Dū Mù’s 都穆 Tīng yǔ jì tán 聽雨紀談 cites a Jiādìng 4 (1211) Lúlíng preface attributing the work to Liú Shuò 劉朔 of Púyáng 莆陽 instead.
The SKQS tíyào provisionally follows Chén Liàng’s preface — the closest in time to the author — and retains “Shěn Bǐ” as the conventional attribution. Modern scholarship has not definitively resolved the question.
CBDB id 39922 records 沈棐 without lifedates, with no clear biographical entry.
If the Shěn Bǐ attribution is correct, lifedates would fall in the early-to-mid Southern Sòng (Shàoxīng to Chúnxī era, c. 1140–1180), since Chén Liàng’s preface places him within Chén’s living memory and Chén Liàng was active 1170s–1190s.