[citation needed] She is noted for her book Big Head Son and Small Head Dad, which was a besteller among children's literature, and the adapted animation with the same name, released in 1995, was also a big hit.
[1] Zheng was born into a Hui people family, in Chun'an County, Zhejiang in 1959.
After high school, she worked in a farm and soon became a nursery governess in 1979, after the Culture Revolution.
[2] That same year, her poem, Little Bed, won first prize at the Shanghai Youth Poetry Creation Contest.
[3] One of her works has been adapted for animation: Zheng has two children, a son and a daughter.