Cao, male, Han nationality,1born on February 20th, 954, was born in Da 'an City, Jilin Province. Professor, doctoral supervisor and doctor of history of Northeast Normal University. He is also the editor-in-chief of Ancient Books Arrangement and Research, the vice president of China Historical Literature Research Association, the editorial board of Historical Literature Research, and the adjunct professor of Liaoning Normal University, Huaiyin Normal University and Guizhou Normal University. He has published 9 academic monographs and more than 70 papers.

Professor Cao is a representative scholar of contemporary compilation research. Compilation is a branch of ancient philology in China, which is regarded as archaeology in the field of ancient philology. Many pioneering achievements have been made in this field, and they have been widely cited in the current literature research. Main achievements: The Collection of Ancient Books on Lost Learning in China (370,000 words) is the first monograph on lost learning. In 2002, he was awarded the third prize for outstanding achievements in humanities and social sciences research in China universities, and in 2003, he was designated as the "National Teaching Book for Postgraduates" by the Ministry of Education. A Centennial Study on the Collection of Lost Documents in China was reprinted by Xinhua Digest (2002- 1), won the Excellent Paper Award of "Southeast Academic" of Fujian Social Science Association in 2002, and won the first prize of the Sixth Outstanding Achievement Award of Social Sciences in Jilin Province in 2004. Undertaking the project of "Comprehensive Collection of Rare Books of Ancient Books in China" funded by the National Research Committee of Ancient Books Arrangement in Colleges and Universities; He has published Knowledge Manual of Ancient Books and Collection of Ancient Books (Shandong Education Press, 1988), Classical Philology and Collection of Books in China (Huazhong Normal University Press, 2003 and 2007) and Introduction to Traditional Philology and Collection of Books in China (Huazhong Normal University Press, 2008). He has published Quantitative Analysis of the Lost Collection of Sikuquanshu (1989), A New Probe into the Source of Lost Collection, Lost Collection Studies (1990), Textual Research on Huang Ying and His Lost Collection Activities, etc.

Since 2000, he has been involved in the study of ancient myths and legends in China. This is a typical interdisciplinary research field of ancient literature, history, philology, anthropology and archaeology. His published works include Legend and Culture of Hou Ji (Social Science Press, 2006), and his published papers include Hou Ji's Pregnancy and Zhou's Ancestor Worship and the Concept Variation of Later Generations (2002) and Analysis of the Cultural Connotation of Hou Ji's Feelings Legend.