Féng Zǐzhèn 馮子振 (b. 1257, d. after 1330), zì Hǎisù 海粟 (“Sea-Millet”), self-styled Guàiguài dàorén 怪怪道人 (“Strange-Strange Daoist”). Native of Yōuzhōu 攸州 (modern Yōuxiàn 攸縣, Húnán). Yuán-period polymath, calligrapher, prose-stylist, and sǎnqǔ (loose-song) composer of the first rank. Held office under the Yuán as 承事郎集賢待制 Chéngshìláng Jíxián dàizhì (Compiler-in-Waiting of the Academy of Worthies) — a court literary appointment. Renowned for his 博學英詞 (broad-learning and brilliant phrase). Famous for two related literary feats:
(1) The 梅花百詠 Méihuā bǎi yǒng (One Hundred Plum-Blossom Poems) KR4h0075 — a hundred seven-character quatrains on plum-blossoms produced on demand at a single sitting in response to a challenge from Zhào Mèngfǔ 趙孟頫 who introduced him to the Chán master Shì Míngběn (釋明本, Zhōngfēng); the entire 100-poem set was answered piece-for-piece in real time by Míngběn. The exchange has become canonical in the Chinese tradition as an exemplar of cáizǐ (talent) facing gāosēng (eminent monk).
(2) The famous sǎnqǔ set 鸚鵡曲 Yīngwǔ qǔ (“Parrot-Song”) in 100 pieces — written to the tune Hēiqī nù — establishing him as the second-greatest Yuán sǎnqǔ composer after Guān Hànqīng 關漢卿. CBDB person 28809.