A village woman in Rongchang County, Chongqing, has become a
famous writer of folk literature after doing odd jobs for 16 years
in Jiangsu Province.
Guo Fengying, 38, was born in Luoguan Village in Rongchang. When
she was young, she was a keen reader and liked listening to the
folk stories and legends that adults told her. After graduating
from high school, she taught Chinese in the village primary school
and started writing novels.
In 1991, Guo decided she was fed up with the routine in the
village and left for Jiangyin in Jiangsu, where a relative lived.
Even as she did odd jobs to support her family, she continued
writing novels and stories based on the folk tales she heard in her
youth.
Since 1996, many of those folk stories have been published in
major newspapers in Jiangsu. Guo has become a member of the
province's association of folk literature.
(China Daily March 23, 2007)