Wang Zengqi, a native of Gaoyou, Jiangsu, was born on March 5, 1920.

My grandfather was a "Bagong" (slightly higher than "Xiucai") in the late Qing Dynasty.

Wang Zengqi's father, Wang Jusheng (1897-1959), was versatile. Not only was he proficient in epigraphy, calligraphy, and painting, but he was also a gymnast who was good at the horizontal bar, a football player, learned many musical instruments, and also liked to raise birds.

The formation of Wang Zengqi's aesthetic consciousness is related to the fact that he watched his father paint since he was a child; his father's easy-going and compassionate nature had a great influence on Wang Zengqi's future creations.

From 1939 to 1943, he studied in the Department of Chinese Literature of Southwest Associated University.

After graduation, he taught in private middle schools in Kunming and Shanghai.

Later he worked at the Beijing History Museum.

After the peaceful liberation of Peiping, he went to Guangzhou and Wuhan with the People's Liberation Army's four-field work group southward, and finally returned to the Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles to work.

In 1954, he was transferred to the Chinese Folk Literature and Art Research Association.

From 1950 to 1958, he served as editor of literary and artistic publications.

He has edited "Beijing Literature and Art", "Rap and Sing", and "Folk Literature".

In 1958, he was mistakenly classified as a rightist and was sent to the Shalingzi Agricultural Science Research Institute in Zhangjiakou area to work as an agricultural worker for four years.

In early 1962, he was transferred to the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe as an editor.

Wang Zengqi began publishing works at the age of 20.

When he was young, he was deeply influenced by Western modernism.

In his later years, his works gradually became more plain.

It advocates "returning to national tradition and realism."

But it also advocates that realism should accommodate various schools and national traditions should be able to absorb all external influences.

At first glance, Wang Zengqi's novels do not seem to pay attention to the rules and structures, but they are "carefully managed casually", so his novels are called "prose" novels.

In terms of language, he attaches great importance to it.

Wang Zengqi's language is clean and natural, and he requires himself to "don't say anything if you can't say it."