Hándān Chún 邯鄲淳 (c. 132 – after 221), zì Zǐshū 子叔 (also recorded as Zǐlǐ 子禮). Some sources give the variant given-name Zhú 竺. Native of Yǐngchuān 潁川 (modern Hénán). A Late-Hàn / CáoWèi wénshì and calligraphy specialist of considerable reputation: he was renowned for his command of the gǔwén 古文, the zhuàn 篆 (seal script), and the lì 隸 (clerical) scripts — Sūn Sīmiǎo’s 孫思邈 Shū lùn and the Sānguó zhì commentary by Péi Sōngzhī both record his calligraphic eminence. He entered the service of Cáo Cāo and his sons; the Wèi shū records his service as Bóshì jǐjiǔ 博士給事 under Cáo Pī. Cáo Zhí 曹植 is said in Péi Sōngzhī’s commentary to Sānguó zhì juàn 21 (citing the Wèi lüè) to have received him with extraordinary courtesy on his first visit, “displaying his agility and reciting fù and xiǎoshuō for him with mounting flair” — the canonical anecdote of literary self-display in the Jiànān circle. He was still alive in the early years of Wèi Wéndì (Cáo Pī, r. 220–226), placing his death after 221. CBDB id 511858 records him under dynasty 26 (Sānguó Wèi), but his active years span the late Hàn and the Wèi.
Catalog-vs-external discrepancy. The Kanripo catalog meta records his dynasty as 後魏 (Northern Wèi, 386–534), with no lifedates supplied. This is a clear catalog error: 邯鄲淳 is the Late Hàn / CáoWèi figure described above, not a Northern Wèi figure. The error is preserved in the catalog meta for transparency, but the present note (and the work note for KR3l0129 Xiàolín 笑林) correct it on the strength of Hòu Hàn shū, Sānguó zhì, and CBDB id 511858. Standard reference: Hòu Hàn shū 80; Sānguó zhì 21 (Cáo Zhí biography, with Péi Sōngzhī’s commentary citing the Wèi lüè).
Hándān Chún is the author of KR3l0129 Xiàolín 笑林 — the first Chinese joke-book, lost as a unitary text but well attested in citations into Tàipíng guǎngjì, Yìwén lèijù, Tàipíng yùlǎn, and other Sòng léishū. He is also credited with the Yìjīng 藝經 (a treatise on liùbó and other early Chinese games, also lost as a unitary text but reconstructed from citations) and is the calligrapher of the Wèi Sāntǐ shíjīng 魏三體石經 (the Wèi Three-Script Stone Classics, 240) according to one of the two competing traditions (the other crediting Wèi Jué 衞覬).