Xu Zhonglin (writer)

Xu Zhonglin (writer): This is a Chinese name; the family name is Xu.

Xu Zhonglin (simplified Chinese: 许仲琳; traditional Chinese: 許仲琳; pinyin: Xǔ Zhōnglín; d. 1560,^[1] born in Nanjing, China) was a Ming Dynasty Chinese writer, best known as the author of the mythological-fantasy novel Fengshen Yanyi.

Some^[who?] say that Xu wrote the novel for a trousseau for his daughter. His hao (號), a type of Chinese style name, might be "Zhongshan Yishou" (鍾山逸叟), which literally means "a carefree old man living in Zhongshan". The name appears in Chapter 2 of Fengshen Yanyi.

References

^ Kohn, Livia. Chinese healing exercises: the tradition of Daoyin. University of Hawaii Press. p. 238. ISBN 0824832698.

See also

Fengshen Yanyi

Chinese literature

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