Wen Huaisha (January 15, 1910 - June 23, 2018) was born in Beijing and his ancestral home is Hunan. The name of the house is Yantang, and the name is Yansou. His pen name is Wang Er, Sikong Wuji. He is a famous master of Chinese studies, a scholar of red poetry, a calligrapher and painter, an epigrapher, a scholar of traditional Chinese medicine, a chanting master, and the first person to study Chu Ci in New China. "2015 Chinese Cultural Figures"?.
From 1942 to 1951, he served as the editor-in-chief of the supplement "Cloud Sea" of the Tunxi edition of "Wanbao" (formerly known as "Republic of China Daily"), the official newspaper of the Anhui Provincial Party Headquarters of the Kuomintang. One day, the magazine published an article by a high school student titled "Moon on the Floor". The student was "shot with a missing ear", and Wen Huaisha was implicated and arrested. Wen Huaisha was released only after the Wannan Office of the Provincial Party Headquarters intervened to mediate.
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When he was a boy, he moved to Hangzhou with his mother and became a disciple of Xu Zihua, a talented woman from Qiu Society. From then on, he embarked on the road of professional literati.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Wen Huaisha was active as a war correspondent in southern Anhui, Guilin, Chongqing and other places, and published poetry, prose, essays and translations from time to time. Later, he worked underground in Shanghai and worked as a copy editor at Shanghai Tangdi Bookstore under the pseudonym Wang Er. After the liberation of Shanghai, because his family was relatively poor, his superiors allowed him to continue working part-time at Tangdi Bookstore.
After liberation, Wen Huaisha worked at the People's Literature Publishing House, and in 1953 he was transferred to the China Youth Art Theater. In the early days of liberation, Wen Huaisha gave lectures at Beijing Normal University and other institutions, and gave lectures for four consecutive years. In 2001, he participated in the classical poetry recital program of the Central People's Broadcasting Station.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Wen Huaisha