Feng Menglong, who used courtesy names including Youlong, Gongyu, Ziyou and Eryou, was a Chinese historian, novelist and poet of the late Ming dynasty. He was born in Changzhou County, now part of Suzhou in Jiangsu Province. He lived from 1574 to 1646. He came from a scholar-bureaucrat household, and he and his brothers were known together as the Three Fengs of the Wu Area. Despite his talent he failed the imperial civil service examinations many times and made a living as a tutor and teacher.
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was a Chinese historian, novelist, and poet of the late Ming Dynasty
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Feng Menglong (1574
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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, now part of Suzhou, in Jiangsu Province.
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