Chén Yuánlóng 陳元龍 (1652–1736), zì Guǎnglíng 廣陵, hào Qiánzhāi 乾齋, of Hǎiníng 海寧 (Zhèjiāng). Major early-Qīng court scholar-official under Kāngxī and Yōngzhèng. Jìnshì of Kāngxī 24 (1685, second-place bǎngyǎn 榜眼). Career: Hànlín scholar, Director of the Jīngyán (Imperial Lectures), Vice-President of the Zhānshìfǔ (Imperial Tutorate), rising to the Grand Secretariat (dàxuéshì 大學士) under Yōngzhèng — eventually Wényuān gé dàxuéshì 文淵閣大學士. Among the most trusted Hàn officials of the Kāngxī court’s later decades and of Yōngzhèng’s reign.
Chén’s signature scholarly project was the Yùdìng lìdài fùhuì 御定歷代賦彙 KR4h0139 — the 184-juǎn imperial anthology of fù (rhapsody) ordered by the Kāngxī emperor and edited by Chén “by imperial command” (fèngchì), completed and printed Kāngxī 45 (1706). The work — the most comprehensive pre-modern anthology of the fù genre, covering Zhōu through Míng in some 4,000+ pieces — is the foundational source for traditional and modern fù scholarship. Chén also produced the Gézhì jìngyuán 格致鏡原 (KR3i0014), a 100-juǎn encyclopaedia of technical and natural-historical knowledge — one of the most useful Qīng reference works for géwù (investigation-of-things) topics. CBDB id 58127. Standard biography in Qīngshǐ gǎo 清史稿 j.291.