Lù Chuí 陸倕 (470–526 CE)

Lù Chuí 陸倕 (470–526 CE), Zuǒgōng 佐公, was a Liang dynasty literary official and 賦 writer from Wúxīng 吳興 Dōngqiān 東遷 (modern Zhejiang). His biography is in Liángshū 梁書 juǎn 27 and Nán shǐ 南史 juǎn 48.

Lù Chuí was a member of the celebrated Jingling literary circle (竟陵八友 — the Eight Friends of Jingling) that gathered around the Sītú 司徒 Xiāo Zǐliáng 蕭子良 (460–494 CE) during the late Southern Qi. This group included Shěn Yuē 沈約, Xiè Tiǎo 謝朓, Wáng Róng 王融, Xiāo Yǎn 蕭衍, and others. After the fall of the Qi, he served the Liang Emperor Wu (Xiāo Yǎn) and contributed to the literary culture of the early Liang court. Denecke et al. (Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature, 2017, 592) identify him as the last deceased writer included in Wénxuǎn 文選 (compiled ca. 530 CE), represented by his 〈Xīn kèlòu míng〉 新刻漏銘 (Inscription on the New Clepsydra, Wénxuǎn juǎn 56).

His 賦 compositions — notably the 〈高松賦〉 and 〈杜若賦〉 — survive through encyclopaedic citations (Yìwén lèijù, Chūxué jì) and through Zhāng Pǔ’s 張溥 reconstructed collection in the Hàn Wèi Liùcháo bǎisān jiā jí 漢魏六朝百三家集 (KR4b0103).