Ni Fangliu is a scholar on the history of Chinese tomb robbing, the famous Sina blogger "Phoenix Playing Under the Wutong Tree", the deputy secretary-general of the Jiangsu Provincial Popular Literature Research Association, and a member of the Jiangsu Provincial Archaeological Society. He has long been concerned about archaeological discoveries and cultural relics protection in mainland China, and has written "History of Tomb Robbers", "Secret Affairs of the Emperors", "History of Chinese Tomb Robbers", and "Three Thousand Years of Feng Shui", etc.