active 1804-1876 Zuiyueshanren

Very little biographical information about this author appears to be firmly documented. The pen name Zuiyueshanren is associated with the Qing dynasty, and library catalogs commonly identify the writer simply as "active 1804–1876" rather than by a personal name.

Zuiyueshanren is known for Huliyuan Quanzhuan (usually translated as The Complete Tale of the Foxes’ Bond or Foxes’ Romance), a Chinese supernatural novel. Reference sources describe it as a Qing-era shenmo or marvel-and-demon tale, adapted in the Guangxu period from the tanci story Qingshi Shan, and centered on the relationship between the scholar Zhou Xin and the fox spirit Yumiian Xiangu.

Because so little can be confirmed about the person behind the pseudonym, the author is remembered mainly through this surviving novel. For modern listeners, that mystery is part of the appeal: Zuiyueshanren stands as one of those half-hidden literary figures whose work preserves the flavor of late imperial popular storytelling.