Why did Sanmao use this pen name?

San Mao, whose real name is Chen Ping, was born on March 26, 1943, in Dinghai County, Zhejiang Province, and majored in philosophy at the Chinese Culture University. After graduation, he studied in Europe, and after getting married, he settled on the Canary Island in the Spanish Sahara Desert. He wrote a series of popular works based on the local life. After returning to Taiwan in 1981, he taught at the Cultural University. He resigned from the teaching position in 1984 and focused on writing and speaking. Died on January 4, 1991, at the age of forty-eight.

She has traveled all over the world, and her works have been widely circulated in the Chinese community around the world. She also has a large number of readers in mainland China. Her life works and translations are very rich. ***There are twenty four kinds.

Sanmao's English name is ECHO, and Sanmao was originally a pen name. From the preface of Sanmao's "Naoxueji", it is only mentioned that there is a hexagram of the I Ching hidden in the word "Sanmao". But what the mystery is, I don’t know. But Sanmao himself once said: I originally gave this name because it was very inconspicuous. Another reason was that the things I wrote were ordinary and only worth thirty cents.

Sanmao was born in Chongqing, Sichuan on March 26, 1943 (February 21 of the lunar calendar). Sanmao showed his interest in books when he was young. He was reading "Dream of Red Mansions" when he was 5 and a half years old. When I was in junior high school, I read almost all the world famous books on the market. I dropped out of school in my second year of junior high school and was carefully taught by my parents to lay a solid foundation in poetry, classical Chinese, and English. He also studied painting with two painters, Gu Fusheng and Shao Youxuan.

In 1964, with the permission of Mr. Zhang Qijun, the founder of the Cultural University, he became an auditor in the philosophy department of the school and achieved excellent academic performance.

In 1967, he dropped out of school again and went to Spain alone. In the past three years, he studied at the University of Madrid in Spain and the Goethe Academy in Germany, and worked in the law library of the University of Inno in the United States. It was of great help to her life experience and Chinese language learning.

In 1970, he returned to China and was invited by Mr. Zhang Qijun to teach in the German and Philosophy Departments of Wenda University. Later, due to the sudden death of her fiancé, she left again and went to Spain while grieving. Reunited with Jose, who had been in love with her for 6 years.

In 1973, he and Jose were civilly married at the local court in the Spanish Sahara Desert. The life in the desert inspired her latent writing talent. Encouraged by the then editor-in-chief of the "United Daily News", her works continued to flow, and she began to publish them in books.

The first work "The Story of the Sahara" was published in May 1976.

On September 30, 1979, her husband Jose died in a diving accident and returned to Taiwan.

In 1981, Sanmao decided to end his 14 years of wandering in a foreign country and settle in China. In January of the same year, the "United Daily News" specially sponsored her to travel to Central and South America for six months. After returning, she wrote "Traveling Through Thousands of Rivers and Mountains" and gave a speech around the island. After that, Sanmao taught in the literary and art department of the Cultural University, teaching novel writing and prose composition, and was deeply loved by students.

In 1984, due to health problems, he resigned from his teaching position and focused on writing and speaking.

I returned to my hometown in Mainland China for the first time in April 1989, and found that my works also had many readers in Mainland China. He also paid a dedicated visit to Mr. Zhang Leping, who is famous for his comic book "The Wanderings of Sanmao", to realize his long-cherished wish.

She engaged in script writing in 1990 and completed her first Chinese script, which was also her last work "Red Dust".

Died in the early morning of January 4, 1991, at the age of 48.

Appreciation of Sanmao's works: "Playing Truant to Study"

"The Lonely Long-Distance Runner"