Dongshanyunzhongdaoren

Dongshanyunzhongdaoren, usually rendered in Chinese as 东山云中道人, is the attributed author of Pinggui Zhuan or Tang Zhongkui Pinggui Zhuan, a vernacular Chinese novel from the Qing dynasty. Sources consistently identify the book as a Qing-era work centered on Zhong Kui, the legendary demon-slayer, and describe it as a satirical or admonitory supernatural novel in sixteen chapters.

Very little reliable biographical information about the person behind the name appears to survive. In practice, Dongshanyunzhongdaoren is known mainly through this single work rather than through a documented life story, so it is safest to treat the name as an authorial byline or literary sobriquet.

The novel’s earliest cited edition is linked to the Qianlong period, with a woodblock edition dated 1785. Modern catalog and reference sites continue to list the author under this name, which has helped keep the book in circulation for later readers interested in classic Chinese ghost stories, folklore, and satire.