An old guest from Wanbei, born in the 1960s, is a native of Wanbei, Anhui Province. He was fostered at his grandmother's house in the countryside since he was a child. Born with an extraordinary talent, he could hear the whispers of the dead under the loess at the age of ten. He has been listening to the dark sounds for decades, and has hidden secrets for half his life.
Growing up in the countryside of northern Anhui, I witnessed all kinds of weird old things in barren graves, wild ponds, old locust trees, and ruined temples. I listened to my grandmother telling real people about real people on summer nights, and listened to the strange news in the countryside around the brazier on winter nights. Everything was experienced and heard by my own ears.
After adulthood, he became obsessed with the local Yin and Yang sect, taught himself without a teacher, and delved deeply into the research of folk supernatural beings and folk culture. Traveled across ten miles and eight villages in northern Anhui Province, visited the elderly to verify the past; collected ancient books and miscellaneous books, old archives and journals, self-study and self-enlightenment, and explored the origins of strange things in the countryside and the yin and yang taboos.
After half a lifetime of ups and downs, I have never forgotten my homeland, the dark voices in my ears when I was a child, or the secrets of the loess that the older generation dared not tell anyone. Written as an article, he refuses fantasy and fabrication, and only writes real and supernatural old news in the countryside of northern Anhui Province. He restores the smell of fireworks and earth in the countryside in the 1960s, and records folk taboos, habits of lonely souls, and evil things in the wild.
