Song Lian (1310165438+10/4 October-13865438+20 June), whose real name is Jinglian, and whose alias is Xuanzhenzi, a Taoist priest and a Dunren. A famous politician, writer, historian and thinker in the early Ming Dynasty. Together with Gao Qi and Liu Ji, they are called "three great poets in early Ming Dynasty", and together with Zhang Yi, Liu Ji and Ye Chen, they are called "four gentlemen in western Zhejiang". Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, praised him as "the head of the founding civil servants", and scholars called him Taishigong and Song Longmen.