Hou Fangyu (1618-1654) was a member of the Shangqiu (present-day Henan) people, and the late Ming Dynasty. Literary scholar of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, one of the three great masters of prose, leader of the Fu Society. When Hou Fangyu was a teenager, he had a talented name, participated in the Restoration Society, and traveled with famous people in the southeast, and people at that time regarded him and Fang Yizhi, Mao Xiang, and Chen Zhenhui as the four sons. At that time, Hou Fangyu, Wei Xi, and Wang Huan were the three great masters of the early Qing Dynasty. Both my grandfather and father were Members of the Donglin Party. He was the shogun of Shi Kefa in Yangzhou. After entering the Qing Dynasty, yu Shunzhi in the eighth year (1651) should take the Henan Township Examination and be a deputy Gongsheng. Hou Fangyu is good at prose and regards the world as a writer of ancient literature. His early writings were shallow and less skilled; later he became more and more mature. His works have biographies of characters, vivid images, plot twists, all have Tang Dynasty legendary brushwork, with the characteristics of short stories. His essay letters, either denouncing the powerful or directly embracing, can show that his prose has a smooth and unrestrained character. Can also poetry.
His major works include the Collected Works of Zhuang Obscure Tang in ten volumes and the Collected Poems of si yi tang in six volumes.
Major achievements: One of the three great prose masters of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and one of the "four princes" of the late Ming dynasty.
![The story of Li Xiangjun and Hou Fangyu, the four famous prostitutes, was abandoned and depressed by others![fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)