Early-Míng Hànlín scholar and chief literary aide of the Hóngwǔ–Yǒnglè court, courtesy name Dàshēn 大紳, native of Jíshuǐ 吉水 in Jí’ān 吉安 prefecture (modern Jiāngxī). CBDB id 34469 attests his lifedates as 1368–1415, but the standard sources (Míngshǐ juàn 147; Wikipedia) prefer 1369–1415, followed here. He took the jìnshì in Hóngwǔ 21 (1388) at the precocious age of 19. He served Tàizǔ briefly, then was relegated to the provinces under Jiànwén; on Yǒnglè’s accession (1402) he was raised to Hànlín shìdú 翰林侍讀 and was the chief mind behind the Yǒnglè dàdiǎn compilation in its initial 1404 phase. He was the Tàizǐ shǎoshī 太子少師 and chief court literatus of the early Yǒnglè reign, with concurrent oversight of the Gǔjīn liènǚ zhuàn 古今列女傳 (KR2g0035, 1403) compilation. He fell from favour in 1407 over his support of the deposed heir Zhū Gāochì 朱高熾 against Chéngzǔ’s favoured second son Zhū Gāoxù 朱高煦; sent to Guǎngxī and then to Jiāozhǐ (Annam), recalled and imprisoned in 1411, he died in prison in 1415. He was rehabilitated in 1565 and given the posthumous title Wényì 文毅. He is also remembered as one of the great early-Míng calligraphers and as the principal early figure of the Táigé tǐ 臺閣體 court-style poetry.