Xú Hōng 徐熥 (1561–1599), zì Wéihé 惟和, biézì Diàohóu 調侯, hào Màntíng 幔亭; native of Mǐnxiàn 閩縣 (Fúzhōu, Fújiàn). Elder brother of the polymath bibliophile Xú Bó 徐𤊹 (zì Xìnggōng 興公). Son of Xú Mùáng 徐木昂, a gòngshēng who served as instructor at Nánān and died as magistrate of Yǒngníng 永寧. Xú Hōng became jǔrén in Wànlì 16 / wùzǐ (1588) but never passed the jìnshì; after repeated failures (most painfully Wànlì 26 / 1598) he retired to convalesce at Jílèsì 極樂寺 in Gǔtián 古田 and died in his thirty-ninth year on the eighth day of the eighth month of Wànlì 27 / jǐhài = 1599. With his brother he maintained the famous Fúzhōu library complex at Áofēngfāng 鰲峰坊 (Hóngyǔlóu 紅雨樓, Lǜyùzhāi 綠玉齋, Nánsǔnlóu 南損樓) and was a leading member of the Mǐnzhōng shīpài 閩中詩派 yá 雅 circle (with Zhào Shìxiǎn 趙世顯, Dèng Yuányuè 鄧原岳, Xiè Zhàozhì 謝肇淛, Wáng Yǔ 王宇, Chén Jiàfū 陳價夫, Chén Zǎo 陳藻 — a poetry society on Zhīshān 芝山). Famously generous despite modest means, he was nick-named Qióng Mèngcháng 窮孟嘗 (‘the destitute Lord Mèngcháng’). His brother Xú Bó edited his collected poetry as the Màntíng jí 幔亭集 (KR4e0235); the prose portion (originally 10 juǎn of a 20-juǎn whole) did not enter the WYG. He also compiled the regional anthology Jìnān fēngyǎ 晉安風雅 in 12 juǎn. CBDB 550934.