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active 17th century-18th century Yuanhuyanshuisanren
A little-known Chinese writer from the late 17th to early 18th century, remembered through surviving fiction rather than a clearly documented life. The name appears as a literary sobriquet, and the surviving record suggests an author connected with vernacular storytelling in the early Qing period.
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About the author
Very little firm biographical information survives for this author. Library and ebook records list Yuanhuyanshuisanren as active in the 17th to 18th century, and the name appears to be a pen name rather than a personal name.
The author is associated with Chinese fiction from the early Qing era. Project Gutenberg attributes works including Zhen zhu bo to Yuanhuyanshuisanren, describing it as a narrative from the late 17th to 18th century.
Some literary reference pages connect the style name "Yanshui Sanren" and the longer form "Yuanhu Yanshui Sanren" with the little-documented writer Xu Zhen of Jiaxing in Zhejiang, but the evidence is not clear enough to treat that identification as certain. Because the historical record is so thin, the author is best approached through the works themselves rather than through a detailed life story.