Liàn Zǐníng 練子寧 (c. 1350s/1360s–1402), personal name Ān 安, conventionally known by his zì Zǐníng 子寧, hào Sōngyuè jūshì 松月居士, native of Xīngàn 新淦 (Jiāngxī). Hóngwǔ 18 (1385, yǐchǒu) jìnshì. Under Jiànwén rose to zuǒ fù dū yùshǐ 左副都御史 (Vice-Censor, the Zhōngchéng 中丞 office that names his collection). At the Jǐngnán zhī yì 靖難之役 — when Yǒnglè’s army entered Nánjīng in 7th-month 1402 — Liàn died as a xùnjié (martyr-for-loyalty) defending the Jiànwén throne. His record is in Míng shǐ Liàn Zǐníng zhuàn. Yǒnglè specifically prohibited the writings of the Jiànwén loyalists (jīn qí wénzì shèn yán); the surviving fragments were first compiled in the Hóngzhì era by Wáng Zuǒ 王佐 under the title Jīnchuān yùxiè 金川玉屑 (the deliberately Daoist-alchemical “Gold-Stream Jade-Shavings” — the precious residue of a destroyed treasure). Re-edited in the Wànlì era by Guō Zǐzhāng 郭子章 of Tàihé as KR4e0073 Zhōngchéng jí 中丞集 in two juǎn, with appended yíshì 遺事; further supplemented by descendant Liàn Qǐ 練綺. CBDB id 34446 records the name and Míng dynasty but no dates.