Yan Jingming (18 17- 1892) was born in Chaoyi County (now Dali County) in Qing Dynasty. He was a great scholar of Dongge in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, and an upright official, Geng Jie. He is one of the few financial experts in the historical trend of China, and is known as the "Prime Minister of Salvation". However, its unjust case in Huangyazhai, Shandong Province, makes people gnash their teeth.

In the 25th year of Daoguang in Yan Jingming (1845), he was a scholar, successively serving as the minister of the Ministry of Housing, the provincial judge of Hubei, the governor of Shandong, the salt envoy of Shandong and the governor of Shandong. 1882 transferred to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development; 1883 served as minister of military affairs; In addition, he served as the foreign minister of the Prime Minister, and was awarded a bachelor's degree in Dongge on 1885. After the death of 1892, Prince Shao Bao was posthumously awarded as "Wen Jie".