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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 epic fantasy novels Duoluo Dalu, also known as Soul Land, one of his most popular works, which was adapted into the Tencent Penguin Pictures TV series 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 universe with Douluo Dalu.

Tang Jia San Shao is one of the representative figures of Chinese online novelists. He has created 24 novels that are be 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.

Biography
In 1998, Zhang worked for 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 China Literature Limited 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 Weibo post, 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.