Biography of Wang Zengqi

Wang Zengqi was born on March 5, 1920, in Gaoyou, Jiangsu Province. His grandfather was a "Bugong" (slightly higher than "Xiucai") in the late Qing Dynasty. Wang Zengqi's father, Wang Jusheng (1897-1959), was a multi-talented man who not only knew goldsmithing, calligraphy, and painting, but was also a gymnast who excelled on the bar, a soccer player, and learned to play many musical instruments, and also liked to raise birds. The formation of Wang Zengqi's aesthetic sense was related to his watching his father paint from a young age; his father's easy-going, compassionate nature had a great influence on Wang Zengqi's later creative work. 1939-1943, he attended the Department of Chinese Literature at the Southwest Associated Universities, and after graduation, he worked in Kunming, Kunming, Kunming and Beijing. After graduation, he taught at private high schools in Kunming and Shanghai. After graduation, he taught at private high schools in Kunming and Shanghai, and then worked at the Museum of History in Beijing. After the peaceful liberation of Beiping, he went to Guangzhou and Wuhan with the Southward Working Group of the Fourth Field of the People's Liberation Army, and finally returned to the Beijing Municipal Federation of Literature and Culture, and was transferred to the China Folk Literature and Art Research Association in 1954. In 1954, he was transferred to the China Folk Literature and Art Research Association. From 1950 to 1958, he worked as an editor of literature and art publications. In 1958, he was wrongly classified as a rightist and sent down to the Shalingzi Agricultural Research Institute in Zhangjiakou to work as an agricultural worker for four years, and at the beginning of 1962, he was transferred to the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe to work as an editor.

Wang Zengqi began publishing his works at the age of 20. In his youth, he was y influenced by Western modernism. In his later years, his works became more down-to-earth. He advocated "going back to national tradition and realism". However, he also advocated that realism should be able to accommodate all kinds of genres, and that the national tradition should be able to absorb all foreign influences. At first glance, Wang Zengqi's novels do not seem to pay attention to chapter and verse structure, but they are "painstakingly casual", so his novels are called "loose culture" novels. In terms of language, he attaches great importance to it. Wang Zengqi's language is clean and natural, and he asked himself "not to say anything that can not be said".