Tang Jia San Shao

Zhang Wei (born October 1, 1981), also known as his pen name Tang Jia San Shao (唐家三少), is a Chinese online novelist. He writes the series of High fantasy Douluo Dalu, also known as Soul Land, one of his most popular works, which was adapted into the Tencent Pictures Douluo Dalu (2020) and network animation Douluo Dalu (2018–present), and other forms as comics, online games and mobile games. Most of his other series of fantasy novels are shared universes with Douluo Dalu.
Tang Jia San Shao is one of the representative figures of Chinese online novelists. He has created 24 novels that are in great demand with thousands of released physical-books and a total of more than 70 million words (Chinese characters) since 2004, and he is still continuing.
He is China’s top-earning online novelist (2012-2017) and in 2015, he was included in Forbes list of Chinese celebrities.
In 1998, Zhang worked for China Network Television|CCTV after graduated in college and started to get exposure to online novels such as The First Intimate Contact. In 2003, Zhang became a contract writer with Qidian, which is a literature website of :zh:閱文集團 and China's leading website for original literature. In February 2004, Zhang started his writing career and released his first online novel, Child of Light, meanwhile he was working as a website engineer in a small IT company.When Zhang first started writing, he could only release 2,000 to 3,000 words (Chinese characters) per day. Then Zhang typically released about 7,000 to 8,000 words a day. And Zhang could release 15,000 to 16,000 words on his most productive days.
In 2005, Zhang released Mad God, The Kind Death God and I am the Sole Immortal, with a total of 4 million words, this is also one of the most abundant year of his creation record.
On December 30, 2013, Zhang established the Tang Studio, which is the first online writer studio in China, with the purpose of realizing the full copyright operating model.
In April 2016, Zhang established the Xuanshi Tangmen Culture Media Co., Ltd., with the purpose apart from the in-depth business operation of Zhang's personal works, other high-quality authors' works are also in-depth business operation.
=== Pseudonym ===
In March 2013, in the show Day Day Up, Zhang explains his pen name comes from the fact he liked to add three small spoons of sugar to his soya bean milk, which is Sugar Added Three Spoons (糖加三勺) and Tang Jia San Shao (唐家三少) being a homonym of Chinese pronunciation.
In 2015, in Zhang's autobiographical novel For You, I'm Willing to Love the World, he interprets his pen name comes from one of his four online chatting room usernames on earlier life. In 2018, in the show The Reader, Zhang also gave the same explanation.
=== Marriage ===
Zhang Wei married his wife Li Mo in May 2007.
In July 2018, in the monthly released physical-book, chapter of postscript in Douluo Dalu 3: Legend of the Dragon King 28, Zhang described the anti-cancer process and life of him and his wife since Li was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015. The same version was released online officially in Qidian on August 24, 2018.
On September 11, 2018, in a Sina Weibo, Zhang announced Li died after battling breast cancer for three years.
On September 15, 2018, in Zhang's WeChat public account and Weibo post, he announced that he would not be updating daily in order to accompany with Li. In a Weibo post, Alibaba announced have to fired an editor and a writer from publishing arm of Alibaba Group for insulting Li in a private messaging group.
=== Activities ===
In May 2018, Zhang was invited to participate in the 2018 iQiyi World Conference Network Literature Summit Forum.
On November 26, 2020, Zhang joins the annual Tengyun Summit to explore the relationship between technology and culture.
Title 	Year 	Type 	Note
Child of Light 	2004 	Fantasy	Also known as Son of Light
Mad God 	2004-2005	Fantasy	
The Kind Death God 	2005 	Fantasy	
I am the Sole Immortal 	2005-2006	Fantasy	Also known as Only I Shall Be Immortal
Space Speedstar Hen 	2006 	Fantasy	Also known as Space Speed Xing Hen
Magic Chef of Ice and Fire 	2006-2007	Fantasy	
The Twelve Zodiac Guardian Gods 	2007-2008	Fantasy	
Zither Emperor 	2008 	Fantasy	
Douluo Dalu 	2008-2009	Fantasy	Also known as Soul Land
Wine God 	2009-2010	Fantasy	
Heavenly Jewel Change 	2010-2011	Fantasy	
Divine Throne 	2011-2012	Fantasy	
The Unrivaled Tang Sect 	2012-2014	Fantasy	Also known as Douluo Dalu 2: Peerless Tang Sect, Soul Land II: Peerless Tang Clan or Soul Land II: The Unrivaled Tang Sect
Skyfire Avenue 	2014-2016	Fantasy	
Legend of the Divine Realm 	2015 	Fantasy	Also known as Douluo Dalu 2.5: Legend of the Divine Realm or Divinity Legends of Douluo Continent
The Legend of the Dragon King 	2016-2018	Fantasy	Also known as Douluo Dalu 3: Legend of the Dragon King or Soul Land III: Legend of the Dragon King
For You, I'm Willing to Love the World 	2016 	Romance	Autobiographical novel
One of City Love Trilogy Also known as For You, I'd Love the World or My Story for You
Adapted into the iQIYI TV series My Story For You (2018)
The Big Enchanters 	2017 	Fantasy	
Embracing You Beyond Lies 	2017 	Romance	One of City Love Trilogy
Mysterious Seas and Lands of Wonder: The Matchless Pearl 	2018-2019	Fantasy	Developing into multiple content formats including original drama, cartoon, film, game, anime and more by iQIYI.
Tang Sect's Heroes' Biography 	2018 	Fantasy	Also known as Douluo Dalu 3.5 - Tang Sect's Heroes' Biography
Protecting You and Time 	2018 	Romance	
Ultimate Fighting 	2018- 	Fantasy	Also Known as Soul Land IV: Ultimate Fighting
River Flows A Thousand Miles, Qin Chuan and Zhi Xia 	2019 	Romance	One of City Love Trilogy
Mysterious Seas and Lands of Wonder: The Sea Dragon Pearl	2019 	Fantasy	
Category:1981 births
Category:Web fiction
Category:Romantic fantasy