Xi Murong created his father's grassland and his mother's river as the background.

Father's grassland and mother's river are both a poem and a lyric poem. Because the way the works are created can be said to be cooperative in a sense. After the poet Xi Murong wrote it, he made some modifications to it for the convenience of singing.

1, I was born in Inner Mongolia, but I have never seen grasslands. It took decades from being born in Chongqing in 1943 to setting foot on the grassland to find roots. All the grassland marks in the middle come from parents' stories. For example, in the work "American outlaws", I wrote about a place I have never seen before. In fact, it is my hometown/all knowledge has only one name, which left a deep background element for the poet's writing.

I haven't seen the grassland since my parents left the mainland in the early 1950s until my death. Grassland is not only the poet's hometown, but also his yearning for his parents. His father is a grassland and his mother is a river. So with the poet's true feelings revealed: more than 40 years, mom and dad, I finally came to the grassland!

Xi Murong's works became famous in 1980s. At that time, there were a lot of works in the poetry circles of Taiwan Province Province, which truly reflected the pain of a generation's separation from the mainland. It has a partial influence on the homesickness elements in Xi Murong's works. It can be said that Father's Prairie and Mother's River is not a song by Xi Murong alone, but represents the emotional experience of a group of people.