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Xiao Hong (1911-1942), a modern Chinese female writer, one of the "Four Talented Women of the Republic of China", was known as the "Literary Goddess of the 1930s". In 1911, he was born into a feudal landlord family in Hulan District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. His mother died when he was young. In 1932, he met Xiao Jun. In 1933, he published his first novel "The Abandoned Child" under the pseudonym Whispering. In 1935, with the support of Lu Xun, he published his famous work "The Field of Life and Death". In 1936, he traveled east to Japan and wrote the prose "Lonely Life" and the long poem "Grains of Sand". In 1940, he arrived in Hong Kong with Duanmu Hongliang, and later published the novella "Mabele" and the novel "The Story of Hulan River". On January 22, 1942, he died in Hong Kong of tuberculosis and malignant tracheectasis at the age of 31.