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Luo Dajing
Southern Song scholar-official whose miscellany Helin Yulu discusses poetry and anecdotes and records 'dripping water wears through stone'.
In a study at night, a desk holds a brush pot, a porcelain vase with a plum branch, a lit red lantern, a folded fan and an unrolled blank scroll, with no one seated there, while through a round window the moon rises over a lake with a sailboat.
Also known as Zi Jinglun · Hao Rulin
Luo Dajing, courtesy name Jinglun, from Luling in Jizhou, passed the jinshi examination in 1226 and served as a legal officer in Rongzhou and judicial inspector in Fuzhou before being dismissed. His eighteen-chapter miscellany Helin Yulu, completed in the Chunyou era, discusses poetry and prose and records anecdotes of Song figures. The story of Zhang Yong's verdict behind 'dripping water wears through stone' comes from this book.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; jinshi 1226 CE, active under Emperor Lizong of Southern Song