Xi Murong (1943-) is a famous poet, essayist and painter. His ancestral home is Ming'an Banner, Chahar League, Inner Mongolia. Published poetry collections include "Qili Xiang", "Youth Without Resentment", "Nine Chapters of Time", "Edge Light and Shadow", "Lost Poems", "I Fold My Love", etc. The new work "Xi Murong and Her Inner Mongolia" uses beautiful words and personally taken photos to record Xi Murong's pursuit of nomadic culture in the past 17 years since her encounter with her "original hometown" in 1989.
Born in Sichuan, spent his childhood in Hong Kong and grew up in Taiwan. After graduating from the Fine Arts Department of National Taiwan Normal University, he went to Europe for further study. In 1996, he graduated with first place from the Royal Academy of Arts in Brussels, Belgium.
He has had many solo exhibitions at home and abroad, and has won the Belgian Royal Gold Medal, the Brussels Municipal Government Gold Medal, two bronze medals from the European Artists Association, the Golden Tripod Award for Best Lyrics, and the Zhongxing Literature and Art Medal New Poetry Award. He has been a professor at Hsinchu Normal University in Taiwan for many years and is now a professional painter.
He has written more than fifty kinds of poems, prose collections, picture albums and anthologies, with readers at home and abroad. In the past ten years, I have devoted myself to exploring Mongolian culture, taking my hometown as the theme of my creations. In 2002, he was appointed as an honorary professor of Inner Mongolia University.