Feng Xiaoqing, named Xuanxuan and styled Xiaoqing. During the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty, he was from Yangzhou (now part of Jiangsu) in the southern Zhili region. Marry Hangzhou tycoon Feng Tong as a concubine. Using the same surname and only referring to characters. Poetry and rhythm analysis. Jealous of the mature woman, he moved to a solitary mountain to pursue a different career. Relatives advised him to remarry, but he refused and became ill with grief. He ordered a painter to paint a portrait of himself and died at the age of eighteen. Mr. Pan Guangdan, a renowned scholar in modern times, once wrote a biography of the same name titled ‘Feng Xiaoqing’.
冯小青，名玄玄，字小青。明万历年间南直隶扬州（今属江苏）人。嫁杭州豪公子冯通为妾。讳同姓，仅以字称。工诗词，解音律。为大妇所妒，徙居孤山别业。亲戚劝其改嫁，不从，凄怨成疾，命画师画像自奠而卒，年十八。近现代著名学者潘光旦先生曾著同名传记《冯小青》。
冯小青·《春水照影》
新妆竟与画图争，知在昭阳第几名？
瘦影自怜秋水照，卿须怜我我怜卿。
My Reflection in Spring Waters
Feng Xiaoqing
After making up I look like a lady in a painting;
I wonder what chance I have of becoming a queen.
I betake myself to spring waters and look at my lean reflection:
Oh my shadow, you must love me as much as I love you.
