An official of the Northern Song Dynasty, he passed the imperial examination in 1106 and served as the magistrate of Anxi County and the supervisor of mining in several regions.
A clerk in Jing County during the Song Dynasty, recorded in the local chronicles of the Jiaqing era of the Qing Dynasty.
A Ming Dynasty figure from Wuxi, known by the courtesy name Guo Ying and the literary name Wei Xuan, who was appointed but did not assume the position of a provincial administrative commissioner's office manager in Zhejiang.