Lù Tíngcàn 陸廷燦
Early-Qing tea-connoisseur and minor official, zì Zhìzhāo 秩昭, native of Jiādìng 嘉定 (the western suburb of Shanghai). Served as magistrate (zhīxiàn) of Chóngān 崇安 in Fújiàn — the prefectural seat of the Wǔyí 武夷 tea-mountains — and on retirement was hòubǔ (waiting-list) for zhǔshì (department-secretary). His Chóngān period (probably c. 1716–1725) was the principal field-research period for his magnum opus.
His one major work, the Xù chájīng 續茶經 (KR3i0024) — a continuation-and-supplement to Lù Yǔ’s Chájīng — was compiled during his magistracy at Chóngān (when the Wǔyí yánchá 巖茶 tribute was rising to imperial prominence under Qiānlóng’s predecessor Yōngzhèng) and revised after his retirement to private life, published in Yōngzhèng 12 (1734). It is the principal post-Sòng Chinese tea-treatise and the standard reference for the Wǔyí tea industry. He also authored the Náncūn bǐjì 南村筆記 (a minor bǐjì).
Lù claims descent from the cháshèng Lù Yǔ 陸羽 陸羽 — symbolically apt for his project of “continuing” the Chájīng — but the descent is conventional rather than literally verifiable; both Lù clans of Sūzhōu / Sōngjiāng region traced their origin to Wújùn 吳郡 and shared the surname.