Gary snyder was born in San Francisco and moved to the northwest of the United States in his early years to work on his parents' farm. 195 1 Graduated from structural anthropology of Literature of Reed College, and then went to the University of California to study Oriental Language and Literature, where he participated in the Beat Poetry Movement. At this time, his translated Hanshan poems had a great influence on him. So, he traveled to Japan (1956- 1968), became a monk for three years, and was obsessed with studying Zen. 1969 After returning to the United States, I settled in the mountains of Northern California with my Japanese wife and lived a very simple life. 1984, Gary? Schneider and the famous American poet allen ginsberg visited China as members of the American writers' delegation, and finally realized his dream of visiting the "Middle Kingdom" for 30 years. Gary snyder once said that the influence of China culture and literature in 1950s and 1960s was 80%. From 65438 to 0985, he became a professor at the University of California, Davis. At the same time, he continued to travel widely, read and speak, and devoted himself to environmental protection.