Fan Zengxiang (1846-1931) was an official and writer in the Qing Dynasty. His original name was Fan Jia, also known as Fan Zeng, also known as Jiafu, alias Fanshan, nicknamed Yunmen, and later nicknamed Tianqin Laoren. He was a native of Zitong Lane, Xizheng Street, Liujiaoting Street, Enshi City, Hubei Province. A Jinshi of Guangxu, he served successively as the magistrate of Weinan, the chief envoy of Shaanxi, and the governor of Liangjiang. When the Revolution of 1911 broke out, he took refuge in Shanghai. When Yuan Shikai was in power, officials participated in political affairs. He once studied under Zhang Zhidong and Li Ciming. He was an important poet of the Tongguang School. His poems were gaudy and he was known as "Fan Meiren". He was also good at parallel prose. He left more than 30,000 poems after his death and wrote millions of words of parallel prose. He was a rare and highly productive poet in the history of modern Chinese literature. Author of "The Complete Works of Fan Shan".
