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Xu Zhonglin 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", which literally means "a carefree old man living in Mount Zhong". The name appears in Chapter 2 of Fengshen Yanyi.