
In Chinese dynastic histories, tales are told of a general named Feng Sufu who lived some 1,600 years ago. Brother to the future emperor Feng Ba, Feng Sufu served one of a series of states known as the Three Yan. The Three Yan emperors ruled parts of northeastern China, mostly from their capital of Longcheng, or “Dragon City,” in what is now Liaoning Province, from a.d. 337 to 436, a brief and tumultuous period in China’s long history.