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The key word and the core space in Ma Xinchao's poetry is "plain". This "plain" is a combination of illusion and reality, and the most symbolic space is "Maying Village". "Maying Village" appears repeatedly in Ma Xinchao's writings at a high density, which even reminds us of the painters in the countryside who repaint the peeling coffins parked in the yard red every year. And the people living in it from generation to generation are also "moving plains". On the "plains" of the Ma-Xin Dynasty, we will hear many sounds that are either real or illusory - the whine of rattles, the sound of wooden fish, the "minimum noise", the sound of wind and sand, the sound of falling snow, and the murmurs of hometown people and strangers, but more often than not, they are silent films.

I have interviewed many people. Tonight, I am going to interview myself. When I wrote this topic, I was at a loss. The interviewer could not find the interviewee. Where am I? I don't know, I started searching, and what I could find about myself was actually just some shadows of myself, some echoes, or just some impressions. My body, soul, and mind are all tightly wrapped, and no one else can enter, not even myself. I can't find myself. Once, I was walking on the street, and an acquaintance suddenly saw me. I hurriedly went to identify it, and it turned out to be just an illusion. I went to the future to look for it, and in that strange land, I didn't exist at all; and what about the past? The past no longer exists, and the handwriting engraved in time has been blurred and cannot be read.