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Zong Lin
Liang official who served Emperor Yuan as Minister of Personnel, was taken to Northern Zhou after Jiangling fell, and wrote the Jingchu suishi ji on the seasonal customs of Jingchu.
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 Yuanlin · Marquis of Xin'an
Zong Lin, courtesy name Yuanlin, came from Nieyang in Nanyang, though his family had lived in Jiangling for eight generations. Nominated xiucai in 525, he joined the staff of Xiao Yi, Prince of Xiangdong, as a secretary and later governed several counties. When Xiao Yi took the throne as Emperor Yuan of Liang, Zong rose to Minister of War and then Minister of Personnel and was made Marquis of Xin'an. After Western Wei took Jiangling in 554 he was carried to Guanzhong with Wang Bao; Northern Zhou gave him honorary generalship and set him to collate books in the Linzhi Hall, and he died in the Baoding era aged 64. His Jingchu suishi ji records the festivals and customs of the Jingchu region month by month, from New Year's Day to New Year's Eve; Du Gongzhan of Sui wrote its commentary.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; nominated xiucai in 525, died aged 64 in the Baoding era of Northern Zhou (561–565)