Lu Song's four disciples each carried a wooden box into the East Hall of Taiji Hall to pay their respects to the emperor. The four disciples, two men and two women, were all seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing Free-and-Easy Headscarves and blue cloth Daoist robes. The men were fine-featured, the women lovely. After kowtowing to the emperor, they stood in an orderly row behind Lu Song, immediately lending him the imposing air of a Grand Libationer.
It was said that when Lu Song preached in Xuzhou, more than five hundred households followed him. These believers offered up their children, money, and silk, exhausting their family fortunes to serve Libationer Lu. Lu Song could have money or people whenever he wanted, yet his appetite remained unsatisfied. Now he had entered Jiankang to seek greater advancement, and quite a few eminent nobles in the capital served him as disciples-
Lu Song came from the Fanyang Lu Clan, an aristocratic family of the Northern Lands. Since the Han and Wei dynasties, the Fanyang Lu Clan had produced high officials in every generation. Together with the Boling Cui Clan, Hedong Pei Clan, Hongnong Yang Clan, Xingyang Zheng Clan, and Taiyuan Wang Clan, they were known as the Six Surnames of Shandong. Before the Yongjia Southern Migration, the Fanyang Lu Clan had stood above the Langya Wang Clan, while the Chen Commandery Xie Clan and Yingchuan Yu Clan could not even compare with the Lu Clan. After the Fu Clan and the Murong took possession of the Central Plains, they treated the Six Surnames of Shandong with considerable favor to win over the Han people, appointing members of those clans to high office. The Boling Cui Clan and Fanyang Lu Clan became known alongside the Langya Wang Clan and Chen Commandery Xie Clan as