Qian Zhongshu (19 10 ~ 1998), whose real name is Huai Ju and pen name is Zhong Shujun. He was born in a scholarly family in Wuxi, Jiangsu, and his father Qian Jibo was a famous master of Chinese studies. Because of his father's strict discipline, Qian Zhongshu has laid a solid foundation of Chinese studies since he was a child. 19 years old, Qian Zhongshu was admitted to the Foreign Languages Department of Tsinghua University. A few years later, he went to Oxford University in England, got an associate doctorate, and then studied in France. From 65438 to 0938, Qian Zhongshu returned to China as a university professor, devoted himself to writing and academic research, and became a famous scholar who was well versed in Chinese and Western studies. Qian Zhongshu's works mainly include essays, short stories, people, beasts, ghosts, the novel Fortress Besieged, academic articles, talks about art records, and pipe cone compilation. Qian Zhongshu's works are witty and often have a profound understanding of life and society, which is intriguing. Therefore, although there are not many works, each one is a masterpiece, which has established his extremely high literary position in the history of modern literature in China.