About the author
Lu Rong's biographical details are very limited in publicly available sources: his dates, native place, and official career are not clearly recorded, so this introduction relies mainly on his surviving works. Five of his works are held here, the best known being Shuyuan Zaji (Miscellaneous Notes from the Bean Garden), along with the Ming Dynasty Notebook Fiction Compendium and other editions of the same title. These works show Lu Rong as a writer of biji, or miscellaneous notes, covering social customs, historical anecdotes, and personal observations, with some discussion of ideas. His content is broad and his tone plain, often preserving details of contemporary manners and institutions in seemingly trivial matters. His books are classified under classic works, social culture, history, and Eastern philosophy, indicating that readers use them both as historical sources and as a way to understand the observations and views of traditional scholars. Shuyuan Zaji has long been valued by students of Ming dynasty biji, and it is through this work that Lu Rong is remembered.
Written (5)
Rating 4.1★ Miscellaneous Notes from the Bean Garden 陆容 Qunyan Publishing House · 2024 A jinshi of the second year of the Chenghua era. Lu Rong showed literary talent from an early age and was widely learned. He rose to the office of Rig… Rating 3.9★ Miscellaneous Notes from the Bean Garden 陆容 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary quality. Early… Rating 4.6★ Miscellaneous Notes from the Bean Garden 陆容 Nanhai Publication Company · 2023 This book is The Miscellany of the Bean Garden (Shuyuan Zaji), by Lu Rong. Rating 4.0★ Shu Yuan Za Ji (Miscellaneous Notes from the Bean Garden) 陆容 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2023 Shu Yuan Za Ji (Miscellaneous Notes from the Bean Garden), by Lu Rong of the Ming dynasty and collated by Li Jianli, has been praised as 'the first am… Rating 4.4★ Grand View of Ming Dynasty Notebook Fiction 叶子奇 / 黄瑜 / 陆容 / 陆粲 · 2022 The Compendium of Ming Dynasty Notebook Fiction brings together 13 important and commonly used notebooks from the Ming dynasty. The selections are wid…Publishers
Shanghai Classics Publishing HouseNanhai Publication CompanyQunyan Publishing House