Yunsheng Cheng

Yunsheng Cheng is the romanized name used in some library and public-domain records for Cheng Yunsheng or Cheng Dengji (字允升), the compiler traditionally associated with Youxue Qionglin (幼学琼林), a well-known Chinese primer for children. Reliable catalog and reference records connect this name with that text, though older sources and later editions use different forms of the name.

The book began as an educational work for young learners and became one of the familiar introductions to classical knowledge in China. It brings together short, polished passages on history, customs, language, nature, and moral ideas, making it both a reading text and a compact guide to traditional culture.

Details about the author’s life are limited, but reference sources generally place him in the late Ming period and identify him with Xichang in present-day Jiangxi. Later editors, especially in the Qing period, expanded and retitled the work, which helps explain why the text survived in several forms while the author himself remains somewhat shadowy.