On this day, 28 years ago, on May 16, 1997 (April 10, 1997, the lunar calendar), the famous writer Wang Zengqi passed away. Wang Zengqi was born on March 5, 1920 in Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province. He is a representative figure of China's contemporary writer, essayist, dramatist, and Beijing-style writer. He is known as "a lyrical humanist, the last pure literati in China, and the last scholar-official in China." Wang Zengqi has made great achievements in the creation of short stories and has also studied drama and folk literature and art. In the autumn of 1935, Wang Zengqi graduated from junior high school and was admitted to Nanjing Middle School in Jiangyin County to enter high school. In the summer of 1939, Wang Zengqi traveled from Shanghai to Kunming via Hong Kong and Vietnam, and was admitted to the Department of China Literature of Southwest Associated University with his first choice. In 1950, he served as editor of "Beijing Literature and Art" sponsored by the Beijing City Federation of Literary and Art Circles. In the winter of 1961,"One Night in the Sheep House" was written with a brush. In 1963,"Night in the Sheep House" was officially published. In January 1981,"Yi Bing" was published in "Yuhua". In December 1996, he was elected as a consultant at the Fifth National Congress of China Writers Association. He died at 10:30 a.m. on May 16, 1997 due to ineffective treatment of illness. He was 77 years old. Academic Experience In 1925, Wang Zengqi entered Gaoyou County No. 5 Primary School Kindergarten to study. In the autumn of 1926, Wang Zengqi entered the County No. 5 Primary School to study. In the autumn of 1932, Wang Zengqi graduated from primary school and was admitted to Gaoyou County Junior High School. In the autumn of 1935, Wang Zengqi graduated from junior high school and was admitted to Nanjing Middle School in Jiangyin County (now Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province) to enter high school. In 1937, the Japanese occupied Jiangnan, and Jiangbei was in emergency. Wang Zengqi, who was a sophomore in high school, had to bid farewell to Nanjing Middle School and went to Huaian Middle School, private Yangzhou Middle School and Yancheng Temporary Middle School. The teaching order of these schools was disrupted by the war. Wang Zengqi managed to finish middle school in this way. After the war became more intense, Wang Zengqi followed his grandfather and father to take refuge in a small nunnery in a village a little far away from Gaoyou City for half a year. He described this small nunnery in the novel "Being Ordered". In the summer of 1939, Wang Zengqi traveled from Shanghai to Kunming via Hong Kong and Vietnam, and was admitted to the Department of China Literature of Southwest Associated University with his first choice. During college, Wang Zengqi and his classmates founded the school's "Wenju" magazine and continued to publish poems and novels in the magazine. On the eve of liberation, in 1944, for the sake of living, Wang Zengqi worked as a teacher at a "China Construction Middle School" run by students of the United Nations General Assembly in Guanyin Temple in the northern suburbs of Kunming. During his two years of teaching, Wang Zengqi wrote the novel "The Bell of Primary School" and rewritten the novel "Revenge." It was later recommended by Shen Congwen to Zheng Zhenduo for publication in the "Renaissance" magazine hosted by Shanghai. In addition, he also wrote novels such as "Career","Down and Down", and "Lao Lu". During this period, Wang Zengqi met Shi Songqing, who was also teaching at Jianshe Middle School in China, and established a romantic relationship. In the autumn of 1946, Wang Zengqi went to Shanghai from Kunming. After being introduced by Mr. Li Jianwu, he taught at Private Zhiyuan Middle School for two years until he left in the early spring of 1948. During this period, he wrote novels such as "Famous Chicken and Ducks" and "Craftsman". In the early spring of 1948, Wang Zengqi left Shanghai for Beijing, where he joined Shi Songqing, a teaching assistant in the Department of Foreign Languages at Peking University, and temporarily stayed at Peking University. After half a year of unemployment, I found a job at the Beijing History Museum. On January 31, 1949, the People's Liberation Army entered Peiping, and Peiping declared peaceful liberation. In March, Wang Zengqi signed up to join the "Four Wild" South Work Group, and was left behind in Wuhan to participate in taking over the cultural and educational units. Later, he was sent to the Second Women's Middle School as the deputy director of the school and worked for a year. In April 1949, Wang Zengqi's first collection of novels,"Encounter Collection", was published at Shanghai Cultural Life Publishing House as one of the literary series edited by Ba Jin. The book included 8 pieces of Wang Zengqi's early works: "Revenge","Lao Lu","The Artist","The Cardmaker","Down and Down","Prisoner","Famous Chicken and Duck" and "Encounter". In May, he married Shi Songqing. Liberation period in 1950, Beijing City Federation of Literature and Art was established. Wang Zengqi returned to Beijing from Wuhan and served as editor of "Beijing Literature and Art" sponsored by the Beijing City Federation of Literary and Art Circles. In 1954, Wang Zengqi wrote the Peking Opera script "Fan Jin Zhongju", which later won the first prize in Beijing City Theater Performance. In the autumn, he was transferred from the Beijing City Federation of Literary and Art Circles to the China Folk Literature Research Association to serve as editor of Folk Literature. In 1957, after the "Anti-Rightist Struggle" began, he was criticized for this essay, but was not designated as a rightist. In the summer of 1958, he was classified as a rightist and delegated to the Shalingzi Agricultural Science Research Institute in Zhangjiakou to work. In 1960, Wang Zengqi was removed from his right-wing label, ended his labor, and temporarily stayed at the Agricultural Research Institute to assist in his work. In the spring of 1961, the Agricultural Research Institute asked Wang Zengqi to go to the Potato Research Station in Guyuan to draw a set of potato maps. Unfortunately, the manuscript was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. In the winter of 1961,"One Night in the Sheep House" was written with a brush. At the end of the year, Wang Zengqi appointed the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe as a screenwriter. In 1963,"Night in the Sheep House" was officially published. This is Wang Zengqi's second collection of works. In 1964, Wang Zengqi and others wrote and adapted the Peking Opera of the same name based on the Shanghai opera "Ludang Fire", which was performed by the Beijing Beijing Opera Troupe. Party and state leaders such as Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Deng Xiaoping, Dong Biwu watched and received all the cast members and congratulated the performance on its success. Shortly after the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Wang Zengqi was imprisoned in the "cowshed" due to the "rightist" issue, but he was quickly "liberated" in 1968. On May 21, 1970, Wang Zengqi was invited to board the Tiananmen Gate because of his contribution to the revision and processing of the Peking Opera "Shajiabang". In his later years, in 1977, the folk literature paper "The Metering of Flowers" was published. This was Wang Zengqi's first work published after the Cultural Revolution. In December 1978, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was successfully held. Wang Zengqi was deeply inspired and his creative enthusiasm gradually increased. In 1979, the novel "Biographies of Cavalry" was published in the 11th issue of People's Literature. This was Wang Zengqi's first novel published after the Cultural Revolution. In 1980, the novel "Being Ordered" was published in the October issue of Beijing Literature. In January 1981,"Yi Bing" was published in "Yuhua". In April,"Danao Chronicles" was published in "Beijing Literature". This year, Wang Zengqi's excellent works were published continuously, and his novel creation became increasingly active. In October, at the invitation of the Gaoyou County People's Government, Wang Zengqi returned to his hometown for many years to visit. In 1982, Wang Zengqi continued to make new works. In 1983, Wang Zengqi's creation became more active, publishing nearly 20 novels, essays, reviews, etc. across the country. In 1985, he was elected as a director at the Fourth National Congress of the China Writers Association, which ended at the beginning of the year. On February 26, 1987, Wang Zengqi joined the Party in Beijing. On April 16, Wang Zengqi accompanied a delegation of China writers to visit Yunnan. In October, at the invitation of Angell and Nie Hualing, Wang Zengqi went to the United States to participate in international writing activities, which lasted for more than three months. In 1988, there were no new novels, and some prose and essays were occasionally published. In January 1989,"Beijing Literature" and Taipei's "United Literature" took simultaneous actions and simultaneously released an album of Wang Zengqi's works. On February 24, 1990, Wang Zengqi wrote the essay "Expressing Thoughts in the Seventies". In May 1991,"Puqiao Collection" was reprinted by Writers Publishing House. In April 1992, the prose collection "Travel and Food Collection" was published by Guangdong Tourism Publishing House. In June 1993, the collection of novels "Deep in the Mushroom" set in his hometown Gaoyou was published at Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House. In the spring of 1995, at the invitation of Taiwan's "United Times", Wang Zengqi went to Taiwan to participate in the "Symposium on Cross-Strait Trilateral Literary Issues." In December 1996, he was elected as a consultant at the Fifth National Congress of China Writers Association. He unfortunately passed away at 10:30 a.m. on May 16, 1997 due to ineffective rescue efforts. He was 77 years old.