Abstract: This paper takes Pearl Lamp, Four-O'clock and Three Sisters Married as examples to discuss Wang Zengqi's poetic writing of folk women in his novel Four-o'clock Anthology and its significance. Adhering to the concept that "atmosphere is character", Wang Zengqi creates, with poetic language and various images, images of three kinds of traditional folk women who are subject to influence of feudal ideas and thus have different fates because of their different degrees of acceptance of such ideas. While tolerating and having compassion for traditional, tragic women, Wang Zengqi admires and appreciates the human virtues in them. Dispelling and supplementing the mainstream narrative, the poetic writing of folk women in Wang Zengqi' novels is of great significance in pondering upon and examining the fate of folk women in general.

Key words: Wang Zengqi, Four o'clock Anthology, folk woman, poetic writing