Chén Péngnián 陳鵬年 (1663–1723), zì Běimíng 北溟, hào Cāngzhōu 滄洲, posthumous title Kèqín 恪勤. Native of Xiāngtán 湘潭 (Húnán). Jìnshì of Kāngxī 30 (1691). His career was as a hard-driving provincial administrator: prefect of Sūzhōu (where he confronted the imperial silk-textile commissioner Cáo Yín 曹寅 — Cáo Xuěqín’s grandfather — and was briefly imprisoned for it), then Jiāngníng zhī fǔ 江寧知府, then circuit intendant in Hénán, then Hédào zǒngdū 河道總督 in charge of Yellow River works, where he died on the job. Qīng shǐ gǎo j. 277 has his biography. CBDB id 55493.
Listed in KR2j0002 Yùdìng yuèlìng jíyào as one of the zuǎnxiū guān 纂修官 (compilers) — his court-compilation work was an interlude in his administrative career. He was also celebrated as a calligrapher.