陈琳诗选
Selected Poems of Chen Lin

陈琳，字孔璋，汉末名士。他先后曾“四易其主”，先是在何进、董卓手下任职，然后投奔袁绍，最终归顺曹操，担任过曹操的司空军谋祭酒，掌管记室，负责撰写书檄。建安二十一年（217年），死于瘟疫。

Chen Lin (177—217), courtesy name Kongzhang, was a renowned scholar at the end of the Han Dynasty. Before joining Cao Cao’s force, he had worked under other warlords of the time, He Jin, Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao. Under Cao Cao he served as Army Libationer in charge of record keeping, and was responsible for composing military pronouncements and other off icial documents. He died in a plague in the twenty-f irst year of the Jian’an era (217).