Xing Duan (1883-1959) was a native of Guiyang, Guizhou. Born August 6, 1883. In 1901, he was a member of the Xin Ugly Sect, and in 1904 he was a member of the Kotatsu Branch. Graduated from Osaka Preparatory School for Industry and Hosei University in Tokyo. He has successively served as the review of Hanlin Academy, the general office of Fengtian Eight Flags Factory, the supervisor of Tianjin Industrial School, the director of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Beiyang Government, the director of the library, and the technical supervisor of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce. From September 1917, he successively served as the director of the Department of Mining Administration of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, the director of the Department of Industry and Commerce, a member of the Ordinary Civil Officials Disciplinary Committee, a representative of the Aftermath Conference, and the General Office of the Jingxing Mining Bureau. After 1928, he was idle.
In July 1951, he was appointed as a librarian at the Central Research Museum of Culture and History. He died on March 3, 1959, at the age of 76.
Xing Duan grew up in the palm of Shan Zhi, specialized in calligraphy, gong kai, and xingshu. He is the author of "Travels in Huangshan Mountain", "Notes on the Visits to Qilu", "Biography of Yu Zhongyue", "Selected Titles of Qianrenguan", "Records of Reading the History of the North and South", "Continuation of the Wei Shu Sect's Room", "Diary of Mountain Travels", "Outline of Guizhou Fangzhi" and so on. When he was in the northern part of the Japanese empire, he was very virtuous, did not interact with enemies and hypocrites, and often gave poetry to Mingzhi. In 1960, his family divided his manuscript into three categories: poetry, literature, and travelogue, and combined it into one episode, which was titled "The Manuscript of the Jielu Series", and the line binding was published.
