A Brief Introduction to the Author of Things on Earth

Formerly known as Ma Jianguo, a poet, essayist and son of nature, he claimed to be a person who "consciously reduced consumption as much as possible for the present and future of this planet".

1960 10 was born in beixiaoying village, Changping county, Beijing. 1978 was admitted to the philosophy department of a branch of Renmin university of China, and formally entered the school the following spring, where he was exposed to misty poetry. 1986, recommended by Haizi, I read Walden, and influenced by this book, I completely turned from poetry to prose creation. From 65438 to 0988, he began to write an open prose series, Things on the Earth. 1998, he took the same photo in a fixed position in the field east of his residential area and began to write "1988 Twenty-four solar terms". 1May 199919th, he died of liver cancer. At the age of 39.

Wei An is the author of Things on Earth (China Foreign Language Translation and Publishing Company, 1995), After the Sun Rises (2000), The Son of God (200 1), The Last Romance (2009) and other works, and his essays have been selected in many Chinese textbooks.