Sòng Zǐ’ān 宋子安
Mid-Northern-Sòng tea-connoisseur, fl. c. 1064–1066. Native of Jiànān 建安 (Fújiàn — the same source of the Sòng tribute-tea). His office and exact lifedates are not recorded. The CBDB has no entry under this name.
His one surviving work, the Dōngxī shìchá lù 東溪試茶錄 (KR3i0023), supplements the foundational Sòng tea-treatises of Dīng Wèi 丁謂 (the lost Chátú of c. 1000) and Cài Xiāng’s Chálù (KR3i0020) of 1051–1064. Dōngxī 東溪 (East Brook) is a place-name in Jiànān; the work is named after this local tea-region.
The Sòngshǐ Yìwénzhì records the work under “Sòng Zǐ’ān”; Cháo Gōngwǔ’s 晁公武 Jùnzhāi dúshū zhì incorrectly gives “Zhū Zǐ’ān” 朱子安 — almost certainly a copyist’s miswriting of Sòng 宋 as the graphically-similar Zhū 朱. The work is the principal Sòng source on the micro-geography of the Jiànān tea zone, supplementing the lost works of Lǚ Huìqīng’s 呂惠卿 Jiànān cháyòng jì and Zhāng Bǐngwén’s 章炳文 Hèyuán chálù; Liú Yì’s 劉異 Beìyuàn shíyí — all now lost.