Zōng Lǐn 宗懍 (ca. 501–565), zì Yuánlǐn 元懍, native of Nányáng 南陽 (registered in Jiānglíng 江陵). A Liáng court literatus, biographer, and statesman. Held office under Liáng Yuándì at Jiānglíng (then the alternate capital): served as Dūguān shàngshū and was promoted to Lìbù shàngshū in Chéngshèng 3, autumn, seventh month, jiǎchén (554), per the Liángshū Yuándì běnjì. After the destruction of Jiānglíng by Western Wèi in 554 he was deported to Chángān, where he served the Northern Zhōu under Yǔwén Yù and died ca. 565 (Bǎodìng 5 / Tiānhé 1). His biography is in Zhōushū 42 and Běishǐ 70. Sole surviving work is the JīngChǔ suìshí jì 荊楚歲時記 (KR2k0105) — the foundational text of Chinese festival historiography. The Sìkù tíyào notes that some old texts misattribute him to Jìn — an error since corrected. (Note: the Sìkù-meta dates “ca. 500–ca. 563” approximately agree with the Wilkinson “ca. 501–565” — followed here.)