1927 After the failure of the Great Revolution, Wang Jingwei in Wuhan and Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing had a notorious confluence of Ninghan and slaughtered revolutionaries, and the domestic situation took a turn for the worse, which was very sinister. Shen Yanbing had to leave Wuhan for revolutionary activities, and finally came to Shanghai and lived in Jingyun. As it happens, Lu Xun and Ye Shengtao also lived here at this time. Shen Yanbing couldn't go out and didn't have a job, so there was something wrong with her life, so she began to write novels. But many newspapers don't publish his articles, so when he writes articles, his heart is very contradictory, so his pen name on the manuscript is "contradiction". Later, he showed Ye Shengtao his novel manuscript. Ye Shengtao was very happy after reading it and decided to publish it in Novel Monthly. However, Ye Shengtao thought that "contradiction" was a philosophical term, unlike a person's name or a surname, and it was not good to use such a sharp pen name in that environment at that time, so he took the liberty to add a grass prefix to the word "spear" and changed it to "Mao Dun". Shen Yanbing is also very satisfied with this change and has always used it as his pen name.