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Song Lian 宋濂

Song Lian (1310 - 1381),1 style name 景濂 Jinglian, was "a literary and political advsier to the Ming-dynasty founder, and one of the principal figures in the Yuan-dynasty Jinhua school of Neo-Confucianism.2

He also wrote on Buddhism and Daoism.3

He has several entries with a qin theme in Qinshu Daquan.

Folio 13 (V.284/5; lyrics for two songs)
Folio 16, #64 (V.369; his discussion of Yang Zuan; see also James Watt, The Qin and the Chinese Literati)
Folio 18, #84 (V.414; explaining qin to someone [齊氏] who doesn't already know what it is)

Song Lian also wrote an epilogue to Zheng Ying's Qin Pu that apparently said, in part,4

Yang Zuan classified the 468 qin compositions into diao (preludes), yi (meaning of mode) and cao (full melodies), and compiled them into a Zixiadong Qinpu.  
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1 Bio/1186; 7230.365 (Return)

2 ICTCL, p.735 (Return)

3 ibid. (Return)

4 See Hsu Wen-Ying, The Ku-Ch'in, pp. 219 - 220. (Return)

5 (Return)