Feng Menglong (1574—1646) styled himself variedly as Youlong, Gongyu, Ziyou and Eryou. His nicknames were also great in number, namely Long Ziyou, Master of Mohan Lodge, Wu Xia Ci...

Xu Zhenqing (1479—1511), styled Changgu or Changguo, was a native of Wu County in Suzhou (today’s Suzhou in Jiangsu Province). The 18th year of Emperor Hongzhi’s reign (1505) wi...

Wen Zhengming (1470—1559), a native of Changzhou in Suzhou (today’s Suzhou in Jiangsu Province), bore the given name “Bi” and styled himself Zhengming which was later changed i...

Tang Yin (1470—1523), styled Bo Hu and Master of the Peach Blossom Hut, was a native of Changzhou in Suzhou (today’s Suzhou in Jiangsu Province). In his later years, Tang Yin con...

Shen Wansan (the years of birth and death unknown), whose original given name was Fu and also Xiu, was styled Zhongrong. The reason why people called him Shen Wansan was that he wa...