Lu Xisheng
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Lu Xisheng (陸希聲) (d. 895) was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty, who briefly served as chancellor during the reign of Emperor Zhaozong.
It is not known when Lu Xisheng was born. His family claimed ancestry from the ruling house of Tian of the Warring States period state Qi and traced its subsequent ancestry through officials of the Han dynasty, the Jin dynasty (266–420), Liu Song, Southern Qi, the Liang dynasty, the Chen dynasty, and the Tang dynasty. Both Lu Xisheng's 5th-ancestor Lu Yuanfang and Lu Yuanfang's son Lu Xiangxian served as chancellors – Lu Yuanfang under the female sovereign Wu Zetian, who interrupted Tang and established her own state of Zhou, and Lu Xiangxian under Wu Zetian's son Emperor Ruizong of Tang and grandson Emperor Xuanzong. Lu Xisheng was descended from Lu Xiangxian's younger brother Lu Jingrong (陸景融). His grandfather Lu Mengru (陸孟儒) served under a prefectural prefect, and his father Lu Ao (陸翱) was not listed with any official titles.[1]
