Does anyone know who is the author of Biography of Jigong?

The story of Jigong has been widely circulated among the people since the Southern Song Dynasty. Tian Ming Rucheng's Journey to the West Lake, Volume XIV, records the outside world and is a record of economic prosperity. The Quotations of Zen Master, which was carved in Qin Long in the third year of Ming Dynasty (1569), is the earliest novel telling the story of Jigong. In the early Qing Dynasty, there was an article by Wu Mo Langzi in Volume 9 of West Lake Story. Chen included this article in "On the West Lake" and renamed it "Nanpingshan Road Economic Pretending to be Crazy". During the reign of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, Wang wrote thirty-six stories, which were basically the same as the quotations of the Zen master who fished in Qiantang. In the ninth year of Qianlong (1744), Wumen Renshoutang published 12 volumes of Biography of Ji Gong, the contents of which were the same as those of Qiantang fishing Zen master. The Legend of Drunken Bodhi written by Zhang Dafu, a dramatist in the late Ming Dynasty, is a perfunctory story. The Biography of Jigong was compiled by the author on the basis of the above novels and dramas with the theme of Jigong. It is a continuation of Quotations from a Zen Master Fishing in Qiantang, and Biography of Jigong is the biggest continuation of China and Zhang Hui's novels, which has appeared since the middle of Qing Dynasty.

Biography of Jigong is a novel describing the legendary deeds of Jigong in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Its full name is Biography of Master Ji Dian Drunken Bodhi, also known as Master Ji Dian's Wonders of Playing the World, Biography of Ji Gong, Happy Everyone, and Golden Rope Crossing the World. Biography of Jigong was published in Qianlong, Daoguang, Tongzhi and Guangxu. Among them, Jin Chang Shu, which was printed by Tang Ye in the 24th year of Qianlong, is an earlier one. The twentieth edition of Biography of Ji Gong can be said to be the first novel written by Zhang Hui for Ji Gong, and it is also the embryonic form of various versions of novels written by Zhang Hui for Ji Gong. Therefore, it is hereby issued. Our agency uses super antique rice paper lithographs, folding and binding. Paper does not rot for a thousand years, and ink does not fade for a thousand years.

Jigong (1 130- 1209) was born in Tiantai. He was a Zen monk in the Southern Song Dynasty, and his dharma name was Daoji. His great-great grandfather Li Zunxu is our military envoy in Song Taizong. The Li family has believed in Buddhism for generations. Father Li Maochun and mother Wang live in Yongning village outside the north gate of Tiantai. Li Maochun is nearly forty years old and has no children under his knees. He prayed devoutly to the Buddha and finally got his son. After Jigong was born, the abbot of the International Temple gave him a common name, Xiu Yuan. Since then, he has forged an indissoluble bond with Buddhism.