Lín Lì 林栗
Style name Huángzhōng 黃中; posthumous title Jiǎnsù 簡肅. Native of Fúqīng 福清 in Fúzhōu 福州 (Fújiàn). Lifedates not on record. Sòngshǐ biography in juan 394.
Jìnshì of 1142 (Shàoxīng 12). Held a series of court and provincial appointments under Gāozōng, Xiàozōng, and Guāngzōng; by 1188 (Chúnxī 15) he was Bīngbù shìláng 兵部侍郎 (“Vice Minister of War”). Best known for the celebrated 1188 court-political affair: he submitted a memorial impeaching Zhū Xī 朱熹 (then Bīngbù lángzhōng, his subordinate) over disagreements on the Yì and on Zhāng Zài 張載’s Xī míng. The Tàicháng bóshì Yè Shì 葉適 and the Shì yùshǐ Hú Jìnchén 胡晉臣 sided with Zhū Xī and impeached Lín Lì in turn; Lín was demoted to prefect of Quánzhōu 泉州, transferred to prefect of Míngzhōu 明州, and died in office. The Sìkù tiyao on his Yì commentary corrects the standard SòngYuánMíng narrative of this affair, attributing the dispute principally to court-rank-and-protocol friction rather than to the Yì doctrinal disagreement (which was occasion rather than cause).
His sole substantial surviving work:
- [[KR1a0028|Zhōuyì jīngzhuàn jí jiě]] 周易經傳集解 in thirty-six juan (originally titled Zhōuyì yáoxiàngxùzá zhǐ jiě 周易爻象序雜指解) — submitted to court in 1185; a synthetic xiàngshù-cum-yìlǐ commentary deploying hùtǐ, yuēxiàng, and fùguà techniques systematically, with appendix integrating the Hétú, Luòshū, eight trigrams, Jiǔchóu (the Hóng fàn’s nine domains), and Dà yǎn number-system in a single integrative diagram. The Sòngshǐ Yìwén zhì’s “Yì jīngzhuàn jí jiě” matches.
His other writings — court memorials, prefaces, and miscellaneous prose — survive scattered through the Southern-Sòng record but no separate collected works has been identified.
The Sìkù editors’ explicit rebuke of post-Zhū suppression of Lín’s book as “contrary to Master Zhū’s actual wish” — invoking Huáng Gàn 黃榦 (Zhū Xī’s chief disciple)‘s sacrificial essay for Lín — is the principal modern textual basis for taking Lín seriously as an independent Sòng Yì scholar.