| Lü Tiancheng | |
| Birth Date: | 1580 |
Lü Tiancheng (; 15801618) was a Chinese playwright and poet active during the late Ming dynasty.
Lü is widely believed to be the author of the erotic novel Xiuta yeshi (Chinese: 繡榻野史) or The Embroidered Couch, which he reportedly wrote as a teenager. According to his friend and a contemporary drama critic, Wang Jide (Chinese: 王驥德), Lü also wrote another romantic novel titled Xianqing biezhuan (Chinese: 閒情別傳) "for fun". Having adapted several dramas including Romance of the Western Chamber and Story of a White Rabbit, Lü himself was also a drama critic. His seminal 1613 work Qu Pin (Chinese: 曲品) or Opera Studies comprises some ninety biographies of playwrights, alongside commentaries on notable plays from the Yuan dynasty to the Ming dynasty; according to the Historical Dictionary of Chinese Theater, Qu Pin is "one of the most influential books on the variety opera, the Southern opera, the legend, and the Kun opera."