Cuī Lìngqīn 崔令欽 (fl. Kāiyuán — Dàlì, c. 727–766). Native place not securely transmitted; the Sìkù compilers note that even by the time the Xīn Táng shū was being assembled “his beginnings and ends could no longer be reconstructed.” From his own text we know he served in the Music Bureau (Jiàofāng 教坊) at the Kāiyuán-Tiānbǎo court — probably in a junior administrative rather than musical capacity — and after the Ān Lùshān rebellion (755–763) was banished south. The post-rebellion exile is the implied composition setting of his KR3l0011 Jiàofāng jì 教坊記, whose closing hòujì turns the work from documentary record into political admonition on the danger of shēngsè wángguó (sensual indulgence causing the state to fall). The Xīn Táng shū Yìwén zhì records also his commentary on Yǔ Xìn’s Āi Jiāngnán fù in 1 juàn (no longer extant). CBDB id 33001 records c_fl_earliest_year 727 and c_fl_latest_year 766.