Lù Càn 陸粲 (1494–1551), zì Zǐyú 子餘 (also Jùnmíng 浚明), hào Zhēnshān 貞山, was a mid-Míng official, classicist, and biji writer. Native of Chángzhōu 長洲 (Sūzhōu region, Jiāngsū). Jìnshì of Jiājìng bǐngxū (1526). Rose to Gōngkē jǐshìzhōng (Censor in the Ministry of Works); famously impeached the powerful chief grand secretaries Zhāng Cōng 張璁 and Guì È 桂蕚 over the Jiājìng “Great Rites Controversy” (大禮議). For this he was demoted to Dūzhènyì yìchéng, then made magistrate of Yǒngxīn 永新 county; he died in office. Biography in Míng shǐ j. 206.
A wide-ranging scholar, Lù Càn produced two important Chūnqiū works (KR1e0077 Zuǒzhuàn fùzhù 左傳附注 and KR1e0078 Chūnqiū Húshì zhuàn biànyí 春秋胡氏傳辨疑, both preserved in WYG and treated as a paired textual programme), as well as a philological work on the Zuǒzhuàn (the Chūnqiū Zuǒzhuàn juān 春秋左傳鐫, in 2 juan, which the Sìkù editors decline to enter on grounds of speculative excess), the biji collection Gēngjǐ biān 庚己編 (or Gēngsì biān 庚巳編, written 1510–1519), the Shuō tīng 說聽, and a substantial wénjí. CBDB id 34701.
His Chūnqiū programme is closely paired and pedagogically integrated: the Zuǒzhuàn fùzhù takes up the canonical commentary apparatus (refuting Dù Yù, Kǒng Yǐngdá’s Zhèngyì, and Lù Démíng’s Shìwén 釋文), while the Húshì zhuàn biànyí takes up the orthodox examination commentary; together they constitute one of the most considerable mid-Míng critical engagements with the foundational Chūnqiū textual apparatus. Gù Yánwǔ’s 顧炎武 Rìzhī lù explicitly relies on Lù Càn’s Zuǒzhuàn fùzhù (alongside Shào Bǎo 邵寳’s Zuǒzhuàn xī 左傳觿 and Fù Xùn’s 傅遜 Zuǒzhuàn shǔshì 左傳屬事).