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Si lun lu (Collected imperial mandates of the Wanli reign) is a collection of imperial decrees, edicts, and proclamations published during the Wanli reign (1573‒1620), compiled by Zhou Yongchun (1573‒1639), a native of Jincheng. Zhou Yongchun received his jin shi degree in 1601, became a magistrate in a number of counties, and later was a chief supervising secretary at the Office of Scrutiny for Rites and censor in chief. He took over the governorship of Liaodong, where he was in charge of military affairs. He fought in the ...