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Yan Wengui [Yen Wen-kuei]
(b Wuxing [now in Zhejiang Province]; fl late 970s–early 11th century). Chinese painter. He probably studied with Hao Hui ( fl 10th–11th century) of Hedong (now in eastern Shanxi Province). He served in the military until the accession of the second emperor of the Song dynasty (960–1279), Taizong (reg 976–97), when he set forth by boat to the capital and sold figures and landscapes on the road leading to the Celestial Gate (Tian men). He is said to have been a court official, as a result of which he was accorded the honorary title of jiangshi lang (‘court gentleman for ceremonial service’), and to have served as the zhubo (recorder or archivist) in Yunying District, Yunzhou.
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