author
Gui Weng
Known from surviving Chinese-language texts rather than a richly documented life story, this historical writer is associated with the Ming dynasty and the work Ming Yue Tai (明月台). For listeners who enjoy rediscovered classics, that air of mystery is part of the appeal.
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明月台
by Gui Weng
About the author
Available catalog records identify Gui Weng, also listed as Weng Gui, as a historical Chinese author connected with the Ming dynasty. Modern public sources appear to preserve very little biographical detail beyond the name and period, so a full life story is hard to confirm with confidence.
What can be confirmed is that the name is attached to the Chinese work 明月台 (Ming Yue Tai), which has been preserved and circulated through projects such as Project Gutenberg and library catalogs. That suggests a writer whose work has outlasted the sparse record of the person behind it.
Because the surviving information is so limited, it is best to treat Gui Weng as an author known chiefly through the text itself rather than through a well-documented personal biography. In cases like this, the writing becomes the clearest window into the author’s world.