Qing historian, bibliographer, bibliophile, epigrapher. The courtesy name is Yumin and the nickname is Quanshan. A native of Jiezhou (now Wudu, Gansu), he lived in Jiahe, Zhejiang. In the 55th year of Qianlong's reign (1790), he became a Jinshi and served as magistrate of Yongkang, Changxing and other counties in Zhejiang. Officially appointed as the prefect of Nan'an and Raozhou Prefecture in Jiangxi Province. He is proficient in history, astronomy, and geography, and specializes in historical tables, annals, and directories. Search and purchase more than 10,000 volumes of ancient books. Huang Pilie was friendly with Huang Pilie. Huang Pilie visited his home several times and found out that he had a rich collection of Song and Yuan literature, saying that "all his books have origins." Zeng made extensive research on the pictures and books of the Qin Dynasty and wrote a catalog and historical materials of the Qin Dynasty. He spent two years carefully collecting them and compiled 80 volumes of "Quan Qin Art and Literature Chronicle". He specializes in calligraphy, epigraphy, and stele tablets. His writings are known as "drawing from a wide range of materials and carefully reviewing them." He once compiled the famous epigraphy book "Huanyu Visiting Steles" with Sun Xingyan, which was published in the world, and included 7,706 types of stele. He is the author of 16 kinds of works, including "Records of Xisurnames in the Two Han Dynasties", "Discrimination of Epigraphic and Stone Scripts", "Text of Guanyou Classics", "Nanxuan Shicao", "Jiuyu Poems", and "Collection of Shouyatang Poems", which are still extant today. Several species.