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Turgenev's full name is Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev. He was born in 1818 and died in 1883. He graduated from the Department of Philosophy and Chinese at the University of Petersburg in Russia, and studied philosophy, history, Greek and Latin at the University of Berlin in Germany. He belonged to the liberal faction during the fierce political and ideological struggles and conflicts in Russia in the mid-19th century. He opposed the serfdom system, but did not agree with the views of Chernyshevsky and other Russian revolutionary democrats at the time. He pinned his hope on top-down reforms. However, due to his deep sympathy for the vast number of serfs and lower-class working people, as well as his literary talent, his works truly and profoundly reflected the reality of Russian society at that time, and were widely recognized and loved. Even the tsarist government and those who advocated violent revolution had to admit that he was a great writer, appreciate his beautiful writing, and appreciate his humanitarian spirit.

The Prose Poetry Parasha you are opening is a colorful book. In this "Prose Poems Parasha", Turgenev sometimes uses his poetic pen to quietly and affectionately describe to us the beautiful and fertile world of his native Russia. The blue sky, white clouds, canyons, flax fields, rolling wheat waves, soaring skylarks... And the daily life and labor of kind-hearted ordinary Russians.