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Lin Hong
Southern Song poet from Quanzhou who claimed descent from Lin Bu and wrote Shanjia Qinggong, a book on mountain-household fare.
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 Longfa · Hao Keshan
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Lin Hong, courtesy name Longfa and sobriquet Keshan, was a Southern Song poet from Quanzhou, Fujian. He studied under Ye Shaoweng and at the Hangzhou prefectural school, and called himself a seventh-generation descendant of Lin Bu. He spent his later years in Hangzhou, where a fire destroyed nearly all his books and paintings. His Shanjia Qinggong records the foods and recipes of mountain households of his day; he also wrote Shanjia Qingshi. His dates are unknown.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; Southern Song figure active roughly in the first half of the 13th century