Feng Menglong’s introduction Feng Menglong’s explanation

1. Feng Menglong (1574-1646), whose courtesy names are Youlong, Eryou, and Ziyou, and his nicknames are Longziyou, Maoyuan Waishi, Zhan Zhanwaishi, Guqusanren, Gusu Cinu, and Pingping. The master of the pavilion, the master of Mohanzhai, etc. In the Ming Dynasty, he was a native of Changzhou County, Suzhou Prefecture (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province). Writer, thinker, dramatist.

2. He was born in a scholar-bureaucrat family, and together with his elder brother Feng Menggui and younger brother Feng Mengxiong, he was known as the "Three Fengs under Wu". Ming Chongzhen Gongsheng. In the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634), he was appointed magistrate of Shouning County, Fujian Province. Later he returned to his hometown to engage in writing. At the beginning of the Shunzhi reign of the Qing Dynasty, he wrote "Zhongxing Weilue", which recorded the affairs of Tang King Zhu Yujian in supervising the country in Fuzhou. Jiafu collected books and compiled "The Legend of Sansui Pingyao", "Zhitan", "Guangxiaofu", "Spring and Autumn Fingerprints", "An Introduction to Ancient and Modern Tan", "Legends of Mohanzhai", "Manuscript of Qilezhai", "Yandu Japanese", "Folk Songs" ""Shouning County Chronicle" and so on. The collected story books "Essays on the World" (also known as "Ancient and Modern Novels"), "Words to Warn the World" and "Everlasting Words to Awaken the World" (collectively known as "Three Words") are classic representatives of Chinese vernacular short stories.

3. Feng Menglong made unique contributions to Chinese literature with his creation, collection, arrangement and editing of novels, operas, folk songs, jokes and other popular literature.