程鹰

Cheng Ying is a Chinese book author about whom little public information is available; details such as birth and death dates, place of origin, and professional career are not clearly recorded. Judging from the two works held in the collection, Wenbo Youxi (The Cultural Relics Game) and Suishun Ji (A Collection of Going Along), his writing spans social fiction and prose miscellany. Wenbo Youxi appears as a social novel, and the term "wenbo" in its title suggests a subject related to the cultural relics and museum field or its social settings, using story to depict the relationship between individuals and society. Suishun Ji belongs to prose miscellany, mostly recording everyday observations and personal reflections. One fictional and one factual, the two works show that the author can both construct narratives and write reflective essays. Owing to limited materials, a full assessment of his oeuvre and literary influence is difficult, but readers may gain a general sense of his realistic focus and plain style through these two works.