任铁樵

Ren Tieqiao was a Qing-dynasty scholar of fate calculation, best known for his annotations to Di Tian Sui (Dropping the Heavenly Marrow). Public information about his life is limited: his nationality, birth and death years, and English name are not clearly recorded. The library holds four of his works, the representative one being Di Tian Sui Chan Wei (Explication of Dropping the Heavenly Marrow), along with Di Tian Sui and several related editions. These works fall within Eastern philosophy and philosophical reading, unfolding around fate-calculation theory while also offering value for literary appreciation. Ren Tieqiao's annotations focus on clarifying the meaning of the original text; his writing is clearly organized and turns abstract concepts into a workable framework of inference, giving his work an important place in the transmission of fate-calculation literature. His writings have long been consulted by students of the field and have had a lasting influence on the style and expression of later works on the subject.