Lú Chén 盧諶 (284–350), zì Zǐliàng 子諒, native of Fànyáng Zhuō-xiàn 范陽涿縣 (in modern Héběi). His standard biography is in Jìn shū 44 (列傳 14). He was the grandson of Lú Zhì 盧志 (the leading Western-Jìn Yuán-kāng 元康-era statesman and ritualist) and son of Lú Chěn 盧諶’s elder brother Lú Yǒu 盧悠. He held office under both the Western Jìn and the Sixteen-Kingdoms northern regimes.
A Western-Jìn shàng-shū láng and zhōng-shū shì-láng under Sīmǎ Yuè, he was captured by Shí-Lè 石勒 (founder of Hòu-Zhào 後趙) in the Yǒngjiā disaster of 311 and forced into Hòu-Zhào service, where he rose to zhōng-shū kǎn-jiàn and guāng-lù xūn 光祿勳. His attempt to flee south to the Eastern Jìn court of Yuándì was thwarted, and he served the Hòu-Zhào, Hòu-Yān, and Rǎn Wèi successor states. He died with Rǎn Mǐn 冉閔 in 350, at the age of sixty-seven.
He is principally remembered as one of the finest poets of the Yǒngjiā disaster generation. His Zèng Liú Kūn 贈劉琨 (Presented to Liú Kūn) and Liú Kūn’s reply Zhòng zèng Lú Chén 重贈盧諶 are in the Wénxuǎn (24, 25) and are read as the canonical late-Wèi-Jìn poetic exchange. He was also a calligrapher and ritualist. In this corpus he appears as the attributed author of KR1d0100 Zájìfǎ — a practical handbook of sacrificial procedures preserved in Běitáng shūchāo, Chūxué jì, and Tàipíng yùlǎn citations. No CBDB id assigned in current dump.