Chén Jìng 陳敬
Late-Sòng / early-Yuán pǔlù author of Hénán, zì Zǐzhōng 子中. His office and biography are otherwise undocumented. He compiled, over two generations of the Chén family (from himself through his son Hàoqīng 浩卿), the eleven-source synthesis-treatise on incense titled Chénshì xiāngpǔ 陳氏香譜 (KR3i0016) — the comprehensive SòngYuán summa of incense literature. The work bears a preface by Xióng Pénglái 熊朋來 (the famous Yuán-era Jiāngxī scholar, fl. 1310s–1330s) dated Zhìzhì 2 = rénxū / 1322, which records that the work was completed only after two generations of compilation. From this we know Chén Jìng’s fl. spans the late Southern Sòng — early Yuán transition; the work’s preface places its completion firmly in 1322, in his son Hàoqīng’s hands, but the bulk of the compilation appears to have been Zǐzhōng’s. Whether Chén Jìng himself survived to 1322 is not known; he may have died in the early Yuán with the work still unfinished.
The work draws on at least eleven preceding incense-treatises (the tíyào enumerates “Hóngshì, Yánshì, Shěnshì, Yèshì shū pǔ” but more sources are cited internally), making it the principal extant medium for the lost Sòng xiāngpǔ tradition.