“Only by enduring hardships can one become a superior person” is Feng Menglong’s famous saying, which means that only by enduring hardships can one achieve fame and wealth and become a person respected and loved by others. Feng Menglong, also known as Youlong, Eryou, Ziyou, also known as Longziyou, Maoyuanwaishi, Guqusanren, Gusu Cinu, Pingpingge master, etc., was a Chinese writer, thinker and dramatist in the Ming Dynasty.

“Only when you have endured hardships can you become a master.” This is from “Warning Words: It’s Hard to Meet Your Husband in Yutang Spring”: The young master thought to himself: “What can I do with him?” When he walked out of the door, he saw only the front door. There is a couplet hanging on it: "After ten years of suffering in front of the window, he became famous all over the world in one fell swoop." "This is the couplet written by my father-in-law. He passed the national examination and became a minister. Later our father studied here. I am now studying here, and I want to follow the ambitions of my predecessors. "There is also a couplet on the second door: "It is difficult to become a master without suffering."

Later it became a folk saying and changed to "Only when you endure hardships can you become a master." Feng Menglong was born in a scholar-bureaucrat family, and together with his elder brother Feng Menggui and younger brother Feng Mengxiong, they were known as the "Three Fengs under Wu".