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Writer from Zhuo in Fanyang, styled Ziliang, who served Liu Kun and whose verse exchanges with him are in the Wen Xuan.
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 Ziliang
Lu Chen, courtesy name Ziliang, came from Zhuo in Fanyang, a great-grandson of Lu Zhi the Confucian scholar and eldest son of the Western Jin minister Lu Zhi. He served Liu Kun, then Duan Pidi, and later held high posts under the Later Zhao. He wrote on Zhuangzi, studied Zhong Yao's script, and has five poems in the Wen Xuan, including exchanges with Liu Kun. He died in 351, aged 67, amid the fighting of Ran Min.
JinLu Chen was fond of the Laozi and the Zhuangzi and good at composing prose. He wrote Jifa, annotated the Zhuangzi, and left a collection, all of which circulated. He had served under Liu Kun, Minister of Works, as registrar and then staff counsellor.