"Li Menglong's Epitaph Inscription" in regular script by Feng Yuji
Feng Yuji (?-1883), whose courtesy name was "Zhongliang", whose nicknames were "Zhanyun" and "Songhu", and in his later years, his nicknames were "Zhuoru" and "Busou", and his restaurant name was "Lvganan Pavilion". When he was young, he studied in the Xuehaitang Academy founded by Ruan Yuan, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.
In the 20th year of Daoguang's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1840), he was recommended by the local government. In the twenty-fourth year of Daoguang's reign (1844), he was admitted to the sixth place in the second class of Jinshi. He was awarded the title of editor of the Hanlin Academy and supervised the academic affairs of Shandong and Hubei. During the Tongzhi period (1861~1875), he returned to Duanzhou as "Ding You" and was hired to give lectures at Yingyuan Academy in Guangzhou. In August of the fifth year of Guangxu's reign (1879), he was promoted to governor of Shaanxi. In July of the ninth year of Guangxu (1883), Liu Enpu, the censor of Shaanxi Province, impeached him for corruption and inappropriate appointments. He was dismissed from his post in October and moved to Yangzhou as an official.
He was fond of calligraphy and painting all his life, and was appreciated by Zhang Weiping, one of the "Three Sons of Eastern Guangdong" (Zhang Weiping, Huang Peifang, and Tan Jingzhao). People in Lingnan regarded him as their master. He was one of the famous calligraphers and painters in the late Qing Dynasty. The calligraphy is realistic to Ouyang Xiu, imitating Li Yong in his later years; the painting imitates Wang Hui, elegant and meticulous in workmanship. He is the author of "The Collection of Poems of Green Ganan Hall". After Feng Yuji passed the Jinshi examination and was awarded the title of editor at the Hanlin Academy, he returned to Duanzhou to get married.
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