Feng menglong biography

In this Chinese name, the family name is Feng.

Chinese historian, novelist, and poet (1574–1646)

Feng Menglong (1574–1646), courtesy names Youlong (猶龍), Gongyu (公魚), Ziyou (子猶), or Eryou (耳猶), was a Chinese historian, novelist, and poet of the late Ming Dynasty.

He was born in Changzhou County,^[1] now part of Suzhou, in Jiangsu Province.^[2]

Life

Feng was born into a scholar-bureaucrat gentry household, where he and his brothers Feng Menggui (馮夢桂) and Feng Mengxiong (馮夢熊) were educated in the classics and the traditional gentlemanly arts.

Feng Menglong (–), courtesy names Youlong (猶龍), Gongyu (公魚), Ziyou (子猶), or Eryou (耳猶), was a Chinese historian, novelist, and poet of the.

Feng was a well-known compiler of anthologies of popular literature in the Ming dynasty.

Feng Menglong (simplified Chinese: 冯梦龙; ) was a.

Editor in this realm was Feng Menglong, whose creations and influence dominate the best-known anthology, Jingu qiguan (“Wonders Old and New”), published in.

Feng Menglong, courtesy names Youlong, Gongyu, Ziyou, or Eryou, was a Chinese historian, novelist, and poet of the late Ming Dynasty.

He and his brothers, all well-known as accomplished writers, artists, and poets, became known collectively as the "Three Fengs of the Wu Area" (吳下三馮). In spite of his literary talent and his zeal for scholarship from a young age, Feng sat the imperial civil service examinations many times without success, eventually giving up and making a living as a tutor and teacher.

In 1626, he narrowly avo