Chen Hengzhe (1890~ 1976), formerly known as Chen Yan and pen name Sha Fei, was born in Hengshan, Hunan (now Hengyang) and Wujin, Jiangsu (now Changzhou), with a scholarly family.

I have been studying under the guidance of my relatives and friends since I was a child.

19 1 1 year, he went to Shanghai and entered a patriotic girls' school.

19 14 was admitted to the international student class of Tsinghua University, becoming one of the first female college students in Tsinghua to study in the United States at public expense.

During my stay in the United States, I studied western history and took a part-time course in western literature at Vasha Women's University in new york, and got a bachelor's degree in literature1918; Later, he went to the University of Chicago for further study and obtained a master's degree of 1920.

In the same year, he returned to China at the invitation of Cai Yuanpei, president of Peking University, and served as a professor in Peking University, Sichuan University and Southeast University successively.

She is the first female master in China history, the first female professor, the first female professor to teach at Peking University, the first female warrior of the New Culture Movement, the first female writer of vernacular Chinese, the first female writer of new literature, and so on.