Wen was born in the town of Zhuanqiao [zh] in Guangshan County, Henan, on 1 November 1921.[1] He finished his elementary education in Huangchuan Middle School and secondary in Yichang High School and Hubei United High School. In 1940, he entered Leshan Central Technical College and soon was admitted to the Department of Machinery, Wuhan University in Leshan, Sichuan.[1]
After graduating in 1944, he had successively served as a probationer in the 8th Aircraft Repair Shop of Chengdu Aviation Commission, a member of the examination unit of the 11th Aircraft Repair Shop, and an operator of the Air Transport 103 Squadron of the Republic of China Air Force. In 1946, he was sent to study at the American Aviation Machinery School at the expense of the government for a year.
In 1952, he became a professor at Harbin Institute of Military Engineering (now National University of Defense Technology). One year later, Professor He Chongben [zh] invited him to join the Department of Oceanography, Shandong University in Qingdao.[2] He joined the Jiusan Society in March 1956 and the Chinese Communist Party in February 1983.[3] He was promoted to be president of Shandong Institute of Oceanology (later reshuffled as the Ocean University of China) in 1984, concurrently serving as director of the Institute of Physical Oceanography.[3]
On 20 March 2022, he died in Qingdao, Shandong, at the age of 100.[4]
