A Study on Author of Petitions to the Throne by Governor of Guangdong Province Tian Shengjin

Since Petitions to the Throne by Governor of Guangdong Province（including A Word of Censor）was looked up by scholars from library’s compost，many experts whom research local history of Guangdong，history of Macao，oversea transportation history，even history of Ming Dynasty have been paid close attention to these papers.But information about the author Tian Shengjin are missing.Someone surmised that the author was from Taihe，Shandong，and someone guessed the author was from Tianduo.The version information and publishing time of Petitions to the Throne by Governor of Guangdong Province haven’t been discussed deeply since lack of information.This paper extensively searches the related historical materials，trying to delineate the life of Tian from the scattered remaining data.