Chén Shìchóng 陳世崇 (1245–1308; CBDB id 29583), zì Bórén 伯仁, hào Suíyǐn 隨隱, was a late-Southern-Sòng literatus of Línchuān 臨川 (Fǔzhōu, Jiāngxī) and a yímín 遺民 (loyalist survivor) of the Yuán conquest. He was the son of 陳郁 Chén Yù 陳郁 (zì Cángyī 藏一; d. c. 1275), the Jíxīdiàn yìngzhì (court entertainer) under Lǐzōng and Dùzōng; the father is independently catalogued for his own bǐjì, the Cángyī huàyú 藏一話腴 (KR3j0131). In Lǐzōng’s Jǐngdìng 4 (1263), aged eighteen and with no examination degree (bùyī 布衣 status), Shìchóng was appointed Dōnggōng zhǎngshū 東宮掌書 — Crown-Prince’s Lecture-Hall Secretary — to the future Dùzōng, a position obtained through his father’s standing rather than the standard examination route. Liú Xūn’s 劉壎 Yǐnjū tōngyì 隱居通議 preserves an autograph note in which Dùzōng (then still Crown Prince) orders Cángyī to deliver more of his son Shìchóng’s shīwén drafts — confirming the family’s place in Dùzōng’s personal circle.
After the fall of Línān in Déyòu 2 (1276) Shìchóng retired into the Línchuān hills and refused Yuán service. The latest dated entry in his one surviving work places him still active in Zhìyuán 18 (1281); CBDB gives his death as 1308. His preserved oeuvre is the five-juàn bǐjì Suíyǐn mànlù 隨隱漫錄 (KR3l0077), composed in the post-conquest decades and combining (i) memoir of Lǐzōng — Dùzōng court ceremonial drawn from his and his father’s palace experience, (ii) shīhuà and literary anecdote on his Línchuān circle, and (iii) coded yímín reflection on the fall of the Sòng, framed as commentary on dethroned HànJìn empresses and consorts in juàn 2. The work is now an indispensable source both for late-Southern-Sòng court ritual (the Zǐchéndiàn shàngshòu, the Háiér bān, the thirty-two belt-styles, etc.) and for the late-Sòng zájù repertoire — the latter underpinning Wáng Guówéi’s 1912 SòngYuán xìqǔ shǐ and the modern field of pre-Yuán drama history.