Lín Guāngcháo 林光朝 (1114–1178)
Zì Qiānzhī 謙之. Hào Àixuān 艾軒 (“Mugwort Pavilion”). Posthumous shì Wénjié 文節 (one tradition); also styled Nán fūzǐ 南夫子 (“Master of the South”) — the last by his contemporaries’ acclaim. Native of Pútián 莆田 (Fújiàn). Lifedates 1114–1178, CBDB id 10612.
The principal Lǐxué figure of pre-Zhū-Xī Southern-Sòng Pútián. Son-in-law of Zhèng Xiá 鄭俠; disciple of Lù Zǐzhèng 陸子正 and (through Lù) of Yáng Shí 楊時 / Yǐn Tūn 尹焞 — the principal channel of Northern-Sòng Lǐxué into Pútián before Zhū Xī’s mature synthesis. Sixteen years senior to Zhū Xī 朱熹; Zhū is recorded as having addressed Lín as elder brother (per Liú Kèzhuāng’s lost-but-cited preface to the 20-juǎn recension of Lín’s collection).
Jìnshì of Lóngxīng 1 (1163) at age 50. Court career: Guózǐjiān jìjiǔ concurrent Tàizǐ Zuǒ yùdé (Imperial Academy Director and Crown Prince’s Tutor); Zhōngshū shěrén concurrent shìjiǎng. As Shěrén he returned the drafted edict (cítóu jiǎohuán) for Xiè Kuòrán’s 謝廓然 appointment — an unusual formal administrative protest, particularly remembered in the Sòng tradition. Reassigned as Gōngbù shìláng concurrent Jíyīngdiàn xiūzhuàn zhī Wùzhōu (Prefect of Wùzhōu); died in office.
In life he disliked composing books. The Lǐxué tradition holds his works as authoritative yǔlù (lecture-transmissions) recorded by disciples rather than written compositions. Compositions surviving were assembled posthumously: Lín’s clansman Tóngshū 同叔 made a 10-juǎn recension (with Chén Mì 陳宓 preface); his nephew Fāng Zhītài expanded to 20 juǎn (with Liú Kèzhuāng 劉克莊 preface, carved at Póyáng); both lost by the Míng. Zhèng Yuè 鄭岳 in 1521 made a xuǎnběn from a surviving manuscript, which is the present 9-juǎn + 1-juǎn recension.
Surviving in Kanripo:
- KR4d0225 Àixuān jí (9 juǎn + 1 appendix-juǎn, WYG; Zhèng Yuè 1521 selected recension).