Zhou Tao is a contemporary poet and essayist. Born in 1946, his ancestral home was in Shanxi, and he made a fortune in Beijing. The teenager moved to Xinjiang with his father. 1969 graduated from the Chinese Department of Xinjiang University and is now the workshop director of Xinjiang Military Region. He has published more than 20 kinds of poems and essays, and won the National Poetry Award, the first Lu Xun (Prose) Award and the August 1st Award of the whole army. Easy-going and occasionally stubborn, small things are serious and big things are confused; I have no ambition in my life. Poetry is my family. That's it. I will die.