Cao Xueqin (17 15 to 1763), Meng Ruan, is the author of China's classic A Dream of Red Mansions. He is a native of Jiangning, Liaoning Province, and his ancestral home is Tieling. Cao Xueqin was born in a family in Zhengbaiqi, the interior office of Qing Dynasty. Cao Xueqin is the grandson of Cao Yin and the son of Cao Yong, a weaver girl in Jiangning.
Jiang (1628 to 1699), a calligrapher and historian in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, was also called "Three Cloth Clothes in the South of the Yangtze River" with Zhu Yizun and Yan. The word Xiqiao,No. Zhanyuan, is from Cixi, Ningbo, Zhejiang.