Zhang Zao, a poet, scholar and poetry translator, 1962 was born in Changsha, Hunan Province, and graduated from Sichuan International Studies University. In the early 1980s, when literary passion was burning, young Zhang Zao braved the storm of poetry and entered Sichuan. Twenty poems shocked the whole country. He became famous with his works such as In the Mirror and Who, and became one of the famous "Five Gentlemen of Bashu". On March 8, 20 10, he died of lung cancer in the University Hospital of Tubingen, Germany, at the age of 48. Representative works include Letters in the Spring and Autumn Period, Research on Cultural Modernity in China, etc.
Zhang Zao wrote in Byakki Smoker: As long as I think of regrets in my life, plum blossoms will fall. Beauty is beauty, but what is the connection between regret and plum blossom? According to my research, this sense of progress comes from this song Plum Blossom.