Appreciation of beginning of winter in the Twenty-four Solar Terms in Wei 'an

Andrew West, formerly known as Ma Jianguo, was born on 19601October 7 in Beixiaoying Village, Changping County, Beijing. 1984 graduated from the philosophy department of Renmin University of China, and began to write poems during the university. 1982 began to publish works, and 1988 mainly turned to prose creation. 1May 1999 19 died of ineffective cancer treatment. "He lives in this noisy world that he is dissatisfied with but passionately loves, and it is always less than forty years." In his short life, Wei Ansheng lived on the simple and quiet edge of the city and paid attention to things on the earth all his life. He left few words, less than 200,000 words. Before he died, he only published a very thin collection of essays, and the collection of essays compiled at his deathbed, After Sunrise, and the collection of essays edited by his friend Yuan Yi were both.

Andrew West likes hiking. He gets close to the earth through traveling, plunges into the embrace of the earth, observes it carefully, and then draws creative materials and inspiration from it. "The richness of nature itself" made him feel a sense of belonging and satisfaction in his journey of reading and writing about the earth. Therefore, in 1998, Andrew West began to take photos of the 24 solar terms, that is, choose a fixed point in the field near the residence, observe, take photos and record at 9: 00 a.m. on every boxing day, and finally form a paragraph. After more than a year of quasi-preparation, he formed his "1998: 24 solar terms" series of essays. However, when he wrote this sentence, it became his "biggest regret"