Lù Jì 陸績
Style name Gōngjì 公紀. Native of Wú prefecture (modern Sūzhōu 蘇州). Son of Lù Kāng 陸康, the loyalist Hàn governor of Lújiāng who was besieged and killed by Sūn Cè 孫策. Famously precocious as a child — the Sānguó zhì · Wúzhì (juan 57) opens its biography of him with the anecdote, repeated for centuries in Confucian moralizing literature, of the six-year-old Lù Jì hiding three oranges in his sleeve at a banquet given by Yuán Shù 袁術 to take home to his mother. Served the Sūn court as Grand Administrator of Yùlín 鬱林 commandery (in modern Guǎngxī) with concurrent appointment as Lieutenant General (piān jiāngjūn 偏將軍); died in office at thirty-two (sources vary).
Wrote on the Yì and on astronomy. His Yì commentary (KR1a0005 in Yáo Shìlín’s late-Míng reconstruction) was a leading representative of the Wú-school xiàngshù 象數 line, and was extensively cited in Lǐ Dǐngzuò’s Zhōuyì jíjiě (KR1a0008) and Lù Démíng’s Jīngdiǎn shìwén. Also wrote Tàixuán shù 太玄述 (a commentary on Yáng Xióng 揚雄’s Tàixuán) and a treatise on cosmography titled Hún tiān tú 渾天圖, both lost.
Not to be confused with the Western Jìn poet Lù Jī 陸機 (261–303), who is a different person and uses a different character.