Yanxiayishi

Yanxiayishi appears to be a pen name rather than a fully identified personal name. Sources connected with Qiaolianzhu describe the writer as a Qing-dynasty author, and some note alternate attributions such as Yanxia Sanren or a possible identification with Liu Zhang of Taiyuan, but these details do not seem to be settled with certainty.

The work most clearly associated with this name is Qiaolianzhu (《巧联珠》), a vernacular caizi-jiaren novel from the Qing period. Modern catalog and reference pages describe it as a multi-volume novel completed during the Yongzheng era, and surviving printed editions are held in major collections, including Harvard-Yenching Library and the National Library of China.

Because biographical records are so limited, the author is best remembered through the book itself rather than through a well-documented life story. For readers today, that means Yanxiayishi stands as one of those partly hidden literary figures whose reputation survives mainly through the endurance of a single work.