Feng Menglong

Feng Menglong

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 (長洲縣, not Changzhou), now part of Suzhou, in Jiangsu Province.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 arts of the gentleman. 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Feng Menglong has received more than 62,338 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Feng Menglong is the 1,977th most popular writer (down from 1,935th in 2019), the 506th most popular biography from China (down from 460th in 2019) and the 47th most popular Chinese Writer.