Career
His courtesy name is Yun Yan (Chinese: 允言. Pinyin: Yǔn Yán). Lu Lun"s ancestral home was Fanyang, now in modern southwest Beijing, China. He was born in what is now Yongji, Shanxi.
He was prevented from assuming his governmental appointment, following his receiving the Jinshi degree in the Imperial examination system, by the disorders associated with the An Shi Rebellion, which caused him to flee for refuge to Jiangxi.