Traditional Chinese 許仲琳 Name Xu Zhonglin Wade–Giles Hsu Chung-lin | Hanyu Pinyin Simplified Chinese 许仲琳 Role Writer | |
Movies Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King Books Investiture of the Gods, Creation of the Gods Similar People Wu Cheng'en, Shi Nai'an, King Zhou of Shang, Luo Guanzhong, Pu Songling | ||
Xu Zhonglin (traditional Chinese: 許仲琳; simplified Chinese: 许仲琳; died 1560) was a Chinese writer who lived in the Ming Dynasty. He is best known as the author of the novel Fengshen Yanyi. He was born in Nanjing.
Some say that Xu wrote the novel for a trousseau for his daughter. His pseudonym might be "Zhongshan Yisou" (鍾山逸叟), which literally means "a carefree old man living in Zhongshan". The name appears in Chapter 2 of Fengshen Yanyi.
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