Ye Fang'ai

His father, Ye Chonghua, was a jinshi of 1628 who served as an official in Shandong and Guangdong during the waning years of the Ming Dynasty.

In 1661, Ye was temporarily dismissed from office after being implicated in the “Taxation Case of Jiangnan” (江南奏銷案‎) along with 13,800 people from Jiangsu.

[1] The following year, Ye began supervising the compilation of Xiaojing yani (孝經衍義), which was a work that expanded on the Classic of Filial Piety.

In 1678, he then became a director-general in charge of the compilation of the Huangyu biao (皇輿表‎), a work concerning the official geography of the Qing Empire.

Alongside Chen Tingjing, Ye was summoned to serve in the Imperial Study in the summer of 1678[3] before becoming chancellor of the Hanlin Academy and vice-president of the Board of Rites concurrently.