Shǐ Zhèngzhì 史正志
Mid-Southern-Sòng official, zì Zhìdào 志道, self-styled in retirement Wúmén lǎopǔ 吳門老圃 (“Old Gardener at the Gate of Wú”). Native of Jiāngdū 江都 (Yángzhōu). Jìnshì of Shàoxīng 21 (1151). Career: rose through the censorate to Sīnóng chéng, then prefectural offices under Xiàozōng — successively prefect of Lúzhōu, Yángzhōu, and Jiànkāng — and finally Lǐbù shìláng (vice-minister of personnel) before retirement. Retired to Gūsū 姑蘇 (Sūzhōu).
His attested works are the Qīnghuī gé shī 清暉閣詩 (a poetry collection); the Jiànkāng zhì 建康志 (his prefectural gazetteer of Jiànkāng, lost); and two pǔlù — the Shǐshì júpǔ 史氏菊譜 (KR3i0032) — and the Júpǔ jí 菊圃集 (lost). His chrysanthemum-treatise, dated by internal evidence to his retirement period at Sūzhōu, is the first Southern-Sòng chrysanthemum-monograph and the principal source for the Wúzhōng (Sūzhōu) chrysanthemum tradition that became dominant in subsequent Chinese floriculture.
CBDB id 1478 records the person but with no dates; lifedates can be inferred from his jìnshì (1151) and from Lù Yóu’s poetic mentions placing him still alive in the 1170s.