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This book is a selection of essays about the Silk Road by the famous contemporary writer Jidi Maga. From the vast and lonely Daliang Mountains to the ancient capital Beijing with rich history, and from the ancient capital Beijing with rich history to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau where the soul is directly connected to the sky, Jidi Maga has always insisted that he is a guardian of Yi culture. His prose, like his poetry, has a broad vision, keen insights, and exquisite warnings. It contains otherworldly love and compassion, thus possessing human emotions that transcend racial limitations, possessing profound ethics that transcend time and space, and possessing the temperament and power of an epic.

This is the poetry volume "Songs of the Yi People" in the "Collected Works of Jidi Maga", which contains more than 300 poems. They are all exquisite poems created by the author based on the people, things, and customs of the Yi people in his hometown. For example, the distinctive ancient poetry of the Yi people Copper-colored skin, the favorite colors of black, yellow and red of the Yi people, the unique tile houses of the Yi people, Daliang Mountain, Lugu Lake, Duoluohe dance, etc., Have profound meanings, vivid images, beautiful language, and distinct ethnic characteristics.

This book collects Jidi Maga's speeches and comments from the 1980s to the present, including the author's speeches and speeches at important conferences across the country and around the world. For example, the author's speech "My poetry comes from the culture I am familiar with" at the National Youth Entrepreneurship Conference in 1986 shows the origin of the author's literary path and his determination to continue on. His speech at the 2018 "Tadeusz Michinsky Phoenix Prize for Expressionism" award ceremony, "The Responsibility of Poetry is Not Just Self-Discovery," and his speech at the opening ceremony of the 2018 "One Belt, One Road" Poetry Lamp Lights Up the World International Poetry Week in Zigong, China, "Another Temple of Humanity Built by the Salt and Light of Words," etc. It comprehensively displays Jidi Maga's academic pedigree, mental journey, and poetic achievements, allowing readers to appreciate the poet's surging passion, soaring reverie, and his "rich lyrical temperament, deep and soft language", as well as his broad international vision, profound human consciousness, and profound cultural heritage.

This collection is the personal collection of the famous poet Jidi Maga, vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association. It is prefaced by a chronology of creation, and his works are divided into volumes such as poetry, speeches and comments, and dialogues. The collection is classified and summarized. This volume is a poetry volume. This volume collects the author's conversations with others over the years, including "The Ancient Land - A Reply to Dr. Zechila Bieri" and "I Don't Write Poems Far from the Fireworks of the World - A Reply to Journalist Zhang Jian's Questions". Through interviews and questions and answers, the author's creative style and academic thoughts are displayed from one side, and the author's creative achievements over the years are presented to readers in multiple dimensions, helping readers to understand the author and his works more clearly.

This volume collects the author's representative works of poetry in recent years. The themes tend to be international and universal in world culture, showing the poet's broad mind and benevolent feelings.

"Poems of Jidi Maga" is one of the Blue Star Poetry Library series. This collection of poems brings together the author's representative works since he published his poems, showing the author's poetry creation so far and his development path in this aspect. It includes classic works such as "Self-Portrait", "Song of the Yi People", "Black Rhapsody" and "The Sun". Most of his works are based on the people, objects and customs of his hometown Yi people, integrating the myths and poetics of the Yi people with modern vocabulary, with profound meaning, unique expressiveness and appeal. Jidimajia's poetry creation benefited from the nourishment of his national culture, the tempering of his continuous Chinese writing over the years, and the vision cultivated by his long-term cultural management work. Its social benefits are undoubted.

"Late Elegy" is a collection of poems, articles, and paintings created by Jidi Maga. It includes many long poems and essays including speeches, addresses, prefaces, comments, conversations, etc., And dozens of hand-drawn illustrations that he has created in recent years. In the poems, there are not only elegies for his father, hymns to the nation, but also confessions of self-existence and reflections on the destiny of mankind. In prose, Jidi Maga talks about cultural similarities and differences, the meaning of poetry and the power of literature. The illustrations composed of strange lines are full of Yi customs and are a profound reflection of Jidi Maga's identity as a "Yi singer". There are poems, articles, and paintings, there is a self, a nation, and a world. Writing about oneself is not limited to oneself, singing about a nation is not limited to the nation, and looking at the real world is not limited to the real world. As a poet who has been translated into many languages, Jidi Maga has truly realized the possibility of being read worldwide.

"Listening with the Mountains" is a collection of poetry dialogues by Jidi Maga, one of the most internationally influential poets in contemporary China, a poet of the Yi ethnic group and vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association. It contains 25 dialogues about poetry between the author and well-known Chinese and foreign poets and media figures, including one with Yevtushenko, a famous poet from the Soviet Union and Russia. Long dialogues with the Native American poet Simon Odis, dialogues with the famous Hungarian poet Laz Peter, and answers to questions from Romania's "Contemporary People Magazine" have all had an important impact at home and abroad, and are rich in information, profound and original thinking, and poetic enlightenment.

It brings together the author's representative works since he published his poetry, and once again shows the author's overall poetry creation so far, as well as his development path in this aspect. Jidimajia's poetry creation benefited from the nourishment of his national culture, the tempering of his continuous Chinese writing over the years, and the vision cultivated by his long-term cultural management work. Its social benefits are undoubted.