Wu Xiaoru was born in Harbin on September 8, 1922. His original name was Wu Tongbao and his native place was Maolin, Jing County, Anhui Province. Scholar, professor of History Department of Peking University. Joined the Chinese Writers Association in 1983. Librarian of the Central Research Institute of Literature and History. Member of Jiusan Society. He is the son of the famous calligrapher Wu Yuru. Wu Xiaoru moved to Peking with his father in 1932. He studied at the private Huiwen Primary School from 1932 to 1934, and graduated from the private Yuying Primary School in 1935. From 1935 to 1936, he was promoted to the private Yuying Middle School and caught up with the "December 29" student movement. Since his father returned to his alma mater, Nankai University, to teach in 1935, he transferred to Tianjin Nankai Middle School (second grade of junior high school) in the autumn of 1936. In July of the following year, the Anti-Japanese War began, and the family moved to the Tianjin Concession and dropped out of school for a year. In 1938, he was admitted to the Tianjin Private Industrial and Commercial High School with equivalent academic qualifications. He graduated in 1941 and was promoted to the Accounting and Finance Department of the Private Industrial and Commercial College. In 1943, he successively taught at Tianjin Private Dawen Middle School, Zhida Middle School, and Shenggong Girls' High School. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, he returned to college and was admitted to the private Yenching University School of Liberal Arts, but left soon after. In the summer of 1946, he entered the third-year Chinese Department of Tsinghua University as a transfer student with a second-year undergraduate degree in business. In 1947, he transferred to the third-year Chinese Department of Peking University and graduated from the Chinese Department of Peking University in 1949.
From 1949 to 1951, he served as a teacher in the Chinese Department of Jingu University, Tianjin. In the autumn of 1951, he worked as a teaching assistant in the Chinese Language Department of Yenching University. In 1952, during the merger and adjustment of colleges and universities across the country, he stayed at Peking University as a lecturer in the Chinese Department. Have been doing this for nearly 30 years. He mainly teaches the history of Chinese literature, and also offers courses on the history of Chinese novels, Chinese opera, Chinese poetry, classical poetry, and prose. Promoted to professor in 1980. At the end of 1982, he was transferred to the Research Center for Medieval Chinese History at Peking University and retired in 1991. In February 1992, he was appointed as a librarian of the Central Research Institute of Literature and History. He is also a professor of the History Department of Peking University, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a consultant of the Chinese Couplet Society, and a standing editorial board member of the Journal of Yenching Studies. In 1953, he joined the Jiusan Society at Peking University. In his spare time, he edited "Literary History" (1980-1981) for Zhonghua Book Company on a voluntary basis for one year. His spare time hobbies include opera (especially Peking Opera) and calligraphy. Wu Xiaoru has written extensively. In 1955, he published "Lectures on Chinese Novels and Others", and later published "Classic Novels Manuscripts" and the co-authored "Collection of Novels Essays". He has also written some special papers on dialogue novels, martial arts novels, satirical novels, and public case novels. Regarding opera, he has written "People's Talk in the Audience", "A Comprehensive Study of the Laosheng School of Peking Opera" and "Wu Xiaoru's Opera Records" (won the Outstanding Cultural Writing Award of Peking University). He has made outstanding achievements in the research of classical poetry, and has published monographs such as "Collection of Poems", "Classical Poetry Practice and Appreciation", and "A Brief Introduction to Classical Poetry". He also published "Examples of Intensive Reading of Ancient Chinese Prose" and "Walking in the Book Gallery". In addition, the comprehensive category includes "Studying Notes", which has been published in Hong Kong and Beijing and is a more insightful work. In addition, there is a book called "Chinese Literature and History Tools and Materials", which has been published in Hong Kong and Beijing and has been well received. Published in recent years are "Contemporary Scholars' Self-Selected Library - Wu Xiaoru's Volume", "Sha Zhai's Notes", "Present and Past Wen Cun", "Study and Reading Records", "Shadows of the Heart", "A Bundle of Chang Tan", etc.