Xiao Hong, a modern Chinese female novelist. Her original name is Zhang Naiying, and she used the pseudonyms Yin Yin, Tian Di, and Lingling. Born into a landlord's family, he lost his mother when he was young. He attended middle school in Harbin in 1928 and was exposed to progressive ideas and Chinese and foreign literature since the May Fourth Movement. He was especially influenced by the works of Lu Xun, Mao Dun and the American writer Sinclair. Because he resisted the arranged marriage, he ran away from home in 1930.

In 1932, he met Xiao Jun in Harbin and began to write articles for newspapers and periodicals.

In 1933, he published a collection of novels and essays "Travel" co-authored with Xiao Jun at his own expense.

In 1934, he went to Shanghai with Xiao Jun and had close contacts with Lu Xun. Lu Xun proofread and wrote the preface for her "The Field of Life and Death", which was published in the "Slave Series".

In 1936, he traveled east to Japan alone to recuperate. During this period, he published essay collections "Shangshi Street" and "Bridge", and short story collection "Ox Cart".

Returned to China in early 1937. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he taught at the National Revolutionary University in Linfen, Shanxi, and traveled to various places with the Northwest Field Service Corps. He wrote a collection of short stories "The Call of the Wilderness", a collection of essays "Memories of Mr. Lu Xun" and "Essays of Xiao Hong".

In 1940, he went to Hong Kong with Duanmu Hongliang. He persisted in creating despite poverty and illness, and published the novella "Mabele" and the novel "The Story of Hulan River".

The Japanese army occupied Hong Kong in December 1941. He was too ill to return to the mainland and died of illness the following year. Representative works include "The Field of Life and Death" and "The Story of Hulan River". Most of her works are based on her hometown. With her keen and delicate artistic sensibility and simple and delicate writing style, she writes about the isolation and desolation of rural towns in Northeast China at that time. The characters she creates are lively and lovely, and her style is bright and sad, filled with melancholy and sentimentality. Breath is a masterpiece of poetic novels.

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Xiao Hong is a female writer with a unique artistic style. She is known for her mixed emotional tone of sadness and joy in her works, her strong and soft language style and her unique His use of writing perspective and treatment of writing structure are unique in the history of literature. Xiao Hong is a typical female literary character, who loves to toss and is unwilling to keep her duties. Generally speaking, her life is very miserable, short-lived, poor, and running around. She ran away from home at the age of nineteen, and once she left, she would never be able to do it again. I didn't look back, I only went back once.

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