Abstract:

Born in the middle of Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake, Yunnan Province, Xiao Xue who is a distinguished poet from the Bai people, made his debut as a poetry critic and became a poet ever since. During his long journey of creating, he put his premier emphasis on his fatherland, the Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake where he grew up, as a result of which his poems are saturated with nostalgia. On the one hand, he wrote about the local manners and conventions of Bai people near the country border and captured the unique national style there; on the other hand, he also made his efforts to concern and give thoughts on the historical destiny which is unfolded in the form of narrative poetry of myth in his writing.

Key words: nostalgic emotions, border-writings, narrative poetry of myth, national autobiography