Born in Mei County, Guangdong Province (now Meijiang District, Meizhou) in 1893, Zhang Ziping graduated from the Department of Geology, College of Science, Tokyo Imperial University in April 1922.

He began writing in 1913 and published his novel The Water of the Yuetan River in January 1920. In 1921, he participated in the organization of the Creation Society. Therefore, his works were shed on the spirit of the May 4th in this period, which disclosed the hypocrisy of religion or described the lives of the lower classes of the Japanese people. His representative work is the novel Alluvial Fossils. In 1934, he became chief editor of National Literature, a nationalistic literary publication where he created a large number of romantic novels, with an anti-feudal tendency, which simply the triangular or polygonal relationship between men and women.