Chung Zhaozheng, the author of "Lu Binghua", died at the age of 96

On the evening of May 16, the Hakka Committee of Taiwan released a message on the online social platform that Chung Zhaozheng, the "mother of Taiwanese literature", had passed away that night.

According to Taiwan's "Central News Agency" and other media reports on the island, Chung Zhaozheng died at about 7 p.m. on the 16th in his hometown of Longtan, Taoyuan, at the age of 96.

According to public information, Chung Zhaozheng, whose pen names are Kowloon, Zhong Zheng, Zhao Zhen, Lu Jia, etc., was born in Taoyuan in 1925, studied in the department of Chinese of National Taiwan University after the restoration of Taiwan, and took a leave of absence due to ear diseases, serving as a primary school teacher for 40 years. After deciding to study on his own, he studied hard Chinese, learned from the "Hundred Family Names", "Three Character Classic", and "Kindergarten Qionglin", and gradually mastered the Chinese language.

Chung began contributing in 1950, and his works are mainly novels, as well as translations. In April 1951, he published his first novel, After Marriage. In 1960, Chung Published the novel "Lu Binghua", which began his long-form writing stage and completed 22 novels and 9 short story collections. During this period, he completed the "Turbid Flow Trilogy", which pioneered the TaiwanEse Dahe novel.

Chung Hsiung-jeong is known as the "mother of Taiwanese literature" for promoting and encouraging writers in Taiwan, and he has long been committed to promoting the Hakka movement in Taiwan.