Lín Jǐngxī 林景熙 (1242–1310), zì Déyáng 德陽, hào Jìshān 霽山, was a SòngYuán transitional poet from Píngyáng 平陽 in Wēnzhōu 溫州 and one of the most celebrated Sòng-loyalist mourners of the dynastic conquest. He is conventionally grouped with Xiè Áo 謝翺, Wāng Yuánliàng 汪元量, Liú Chénwēng 劉辰翁, and Wén Tiānxiáng 文天祥 as the central figures of the yímín (Sòng-loyalist) literary canon.
Lín was admitted from the Imperial University in the shìhè 釋褐 ceremony of Xiánchún 7 (1271) and appointed to a teaching post in Quánzhōu 泉州; he was subsequently transferred to the Office of Archives at the Bureau of Rites (禮部架閣) and promoted to Cóngzhèngláng 從政郎. When the Sòng fell in 1276 he refused further service and spent the rest of his life as a Sòng-loyalist refuser, dividing his time between his native Píngyáng and the Hángzhōu / Shàoxīng region.
His most famous historical act was the secret recovery, in 1278, of the bones of the violated Sòng imperial dead from the desecrated Yǒngmù imperial tombs at Shàoxīng. The Tibetan-Buddhist guóshī Yáng Liǎnzhēnjiā 楊璉真伽, acting under Kublai Khan’s authorization, had broken open the tombs and scattered the imperial remains across the hillside. Lín, with the loyalist Zhèng Pǔwēng 鄭樸翁 and others, disguised himself as an herb-gatherer, picked up the bones into grass-sacks, sealed them into two boxes labelled as Buddhist sūtras, and re-interred them on the Yuèshān 越山, planting an evergreen tree (dōngqīng 冬青) as a secret marker. The cycle of poems Dōngqīng xíng 冬青行 commemorates the event.
In his later years he joined the “Year-end Compact” (xúnsuìyànzhīméng 尋歲晏之盟) — the annual Shàoxīng loyalist commemoration organized by Wáng Xiūzhú 王修竹 — and traveled widely between Wú and Yuè for some twenty years. He returned home from Hángzhōu in wùshēn 戊申 (1308) in failing health and died in gēngxū 庚戌 (1310) at age 69. His writings, originally the Báishí gǎo 白石藁 (prose, ten juàn) and the Báishí qiáochàng 白石樵唱 (poetry, six juàn), were recovered only in fragmentary form by Lǚ Hóng 吕洪 in Tiānshùn 7 (1463) and printed under the Kāngxī period as the present five-juàn Jìshān wénjí 霽山文集 KR4d0395. The poetry has been carried with Zhāng Zǔchéng’s 章祖程 Yuán-era 1334 annotations. CBDB id 25055 confirms 1242–1310, matching the Lǚ Hóng preface.