徐夜,原名元善,字长公,济南府新城(今山东省桓台)县人。崇祯庚午科副榜贡生。入清前夕弃诸生隐居,更名夜,字东痴,后又字嵇庵。《清史稿、文苑一、列传二百七十一》载:“当是时,山左诗人王氏兄弟外,有田雯、颜光敏、曹贞吉、王苹、张笃庆、徐夜皆知名。”因此,《中国文学家大辞典》、《中国人名大辞典》等几部影响较大的辞书都列名刊介。近来,我翻阅某些有关资料,发现《中国文学家大辞典》所载徐夜“生于明神宗万历三十九年,卒于清圣祖康熙二十二年,年七十三 Xu night, formerly Yuan Shan, word length public, Jinan City Metro (now Huantai County, Shandong Province) County. Chong Zhen Geng Lun Wu table tribute students. Into the eve of abandoning all living seclusion, renamed the night, the word East crazy, then word 嵇 Um. ”History of the Qing Dynasty, the text of a Court, Biography of two hundred and seventy-one“ contains: ”When it is, the leftist poet Wang Brothers, there Tian Wen, Yan Guangmin, Cao Zhenji, Wang Ping, Zhang Duqing, Xu night are well known. Therefore, “Dictionary of Chinese writers”, “Dictionary of Chinese names” and several other influential dictionaries are listed in the Journal. Recently, I read through some relevant materials and found that Xu Ye, born in the Dictionary of Chinese Writers, was born in the Ming Shenzong Wanli for thirty-nine years and died in the Qing Sheng Zu-Kangxi twenty-two years, seventy-three years