Wang Zengqi, a native of Gaoyou, Jiangsu, is a famous modern and contemporary writer and dramatist, and a representative figure of Beijing School novels. He is known as "the last writer influenced by scholar-bureaucrat culture". In 1939, he was admitted to the Chinese Department of Southwest Associated University, where he studied under Wen Yiduo, Zhu Ziqing, Shen Congwen and others. Before liberation, he worked as a middle school teacher and history museum employee. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he worked as an editor and later as a screenwriter at the Beijing Opera Troupe. He has served as a director of the Beijing Drama Association, a director of the Chinese Writers Association, and a consultant to the Chinese Writers Association. His representative works include the prose "Duck Eggs at Dragon Boat Festival" and "Human Plants", novels "Da Nao Chronicles" and "Ordering", etc.