Chen was born in an, Shaanxi. Party member, CPC. 1962 graduated from No.34 Middle School in Xi City. He has been a teacher of Jiangcun Primary School of Maoxi Commune in Anjiao, a teacher and secretary of the League branch of Maoxi Commune Agricultural Middle School, a deputy director of the Commune Revolutionary Committee and deputy secretary of the Party Committee, a deputy director of Anjiao Cultural Center, a deputy director of the Municipal Baqiao District Cultural Bureau, a deputy director of Tongcheng Cultural Center, a vice chairman and chairman of Shaanxi Writers Association, a professional writer, and a first-class literary creation. Representative of the 13th and 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, alternate member of the 7th and 8th Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, member of the 5th Chinese Writers Association, and editor of China Shaojiaban. Published works 65438 to 0965. 65438-0979 Join the Chinese Writers Association.

He is the author of short stories "Country" and "Go Behind the Old Poplar", novellas "Early Summer" and "Four Sisters" and novel "Bailuyuan". Chen's Selected Novels (3 volumes), Chen Wenji (5 volumes), prose collection Farewell to Pigeons, etc.

The short story Trust won the National Excellent Works Award 1979, Lizhang won the Flying Literature Award 1980, the novella Konka Xiao Yuan won the first Shanghai Novel Literature Award, the contemporary literature award 1984 in early summer, and the eighteen-year-old brother won 65. About a Person's Memory won the National Reportage Literature Award 1990-199 1, the novel White Deer Plain won the Shaanxi Double Five Literature Award 1993, Yanhuang Cup Literature Award 1996 and the 4th Mao Dun Literature Award.