Su Lin 蘇林

Appending men of letters of the same era at the end of the Biography of Liu Shao, Chen Shou wrote that the Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary Su Lin of Chenliu, the Grandee of Splendid Happiness Wei Dan of Jingzhao, the Administrator of Le'an Xiahou Hui of Qiao, the Administrator of Chen Commandery Sun Gai of Rencheng, the Prefect of the Palace Gentlemen Du Zhi of Hedong and others also wrote essays and rhapsodies that were fairly widely transmitted in the world. Records, Wei 21 §78–79

During the Jingchu era Emperor Ming, worried that since Su Lin, Qin Jing and others were all old there might be no one to carry on their learning, issued an edict. Among the texts of the Six Arts, the edict said, the rites are the most urgent and cannot be departed from even for a moment, yet now the venerable teachers and great Confucian scholars are all advanced in years—who will carry on the way of teaching? Records, Wei 25 §107–108

The edict went on to order that thirty gentlemen-clerks of high talent who understood the meaning of the classics be selected to study the Four Classics and the Three Rites in separate groups under the Superintendent of the Imperial Household Gaotang Long, the Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary Su Lin and the Erudite Qin Jing, and that the officials in charge draw up a full system of courses and examinations. It also encouraged them, saying that if any student thoroughly mastered the way of the classics, rank, salary, honour and favour would come to him unbidden. A few years later, when Gaotang Long and the others had all died, this learning finally came to an end. Records, Wei 25 §108–109

Chen Shou's main text does not record Su Lin's courtesy name, any other offices he held, or the year of his death. In the assessment at the end of the volume Chen Shou evaluated only Wang Can, Xu Gan, Wei Ji, Liu Shao, Liu Yi and Fu Gu, and gave no separate assessment of Su Lin. Records, Wei 21 §78–79 · 99Records, Wei 25 §107–109