Lín Jìzhòng 林季仲 (Sòng, fl. 1130s–1140s)
Zì Yìchéng 懿成. Hào Lúshān lǎorén 蘆山老人 (“Old Man of Reed Mountain”). Sometimes self-styled Jǐnán Lín mǒu 濟南林某, after his ancestral seat. Native of Yǒngjiā 永嘉 (modern Wēnzhōu, Zhèjiāng); temporarily resided at Jìyáng 暨陽 (modern Jiāngyīn, Jiāngsū). CBDB id 14355 (no dates).
Jìnshì (year unattested). Career: rose through Tàicháng shǎoqīng concurrent Zhī Wùzhōu. Recommended by Zhào Dǐng 趙鼎 on the latter’s second appointment as chief minister; the Sòngshǐ Zhào Dǐng biography records Zhào’s memorial naming Lín alongside Liú Dàběn 劉大本, Hú Yín 胡寅, Lǚ Běnzhōng 呂本中, and Cháng Tóng 常同 as the qīngyì (clear-discussion) figures of the era — an unusually distinguished group designation. Lín subsequently submitted a memorial against Qín Huì’s peace settlement (this memorial was excised from the surviving collection, presumably during the Qín tenure); was punished and demoted. Surviving letters of consolation to Zhào Dǐng after the latter’s southern exile are unusually frank.
His brothers (per Chén Zhènsūn’s Shūlù jiětí) were Zhòngxióng 仲熊, Shūbào 叔豹, and Jìlí 季貍 — all known names. Lín’s own collection mentions an “eight brothers of one ancestor” lineage; only some names are recoverable.
Surviving in Kanripo:
- KR4d0214 Zhúxuān zázhù (6 juǎn, WYG; reconstructed from Yǒnglè dàdiǎn fragments — original 15-juǎn recension lost).