"Winter Pasture" Author: Li Juan Publisher: Huacheng Publishing House

Introduction
At the end of 2010, Li Juan followed the family of Kazakh herder Juma to the winter pasture deep in the desert of Altay region in northern Xinjiang and spent the whole winter there. In the long cold world, Li Juan recorded in detail what she saw and heard on this ancient, barren and vast land: herders migrated, herded, carried snow, embroidered felts, prepared the ground and cleaned the livestock pens, and visited each other in a grand and luxurious manner... Hard and heavy labor is the daily life and the pleasure and dignity of the vast and lonely life. This is the most turbulent and difficult season in the nomadic life of the Kazakh people who live by water and grass. As time goes by and the material world becomes richer, this way of life will gradually disappear. Fortunately, Li Juan's words truly restore this scene - the winter of herders and livestock, "the life of a sheep is the year of a shepherd."
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Deep in the barren and cold desert, Li Juan lived with the Kazakh herdsmen for an entire winter.
In the turbulent life of moving from place to place, winter migration is the most difficult part. Li Juan tells the story of the winter nomadic culture of the Kazakh herdsmen with deep affection and restraint, and records the nomadic landscape of the northern Xinjiang in a panoramic manner.
The fate of mankind and the fate of the wilderness are closely linked and interdependent. In the great cold, Li Juan wrote about the small ball of warmth and peace that tiny humans spread out with their hands - although weak, it is enough to compete with the harsh reality.
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🌟More than 50 precious photos of winter pastures taken by the author himself, some of which are published for the first time
🌟Li Juan's favorite non-fiction novel
🌟One of the works of "Li Juan" published by Huacheng Publishing House, together with the trilogy of "Sheep Road", it constitutes the "Nomadic Culture Quartet" (Yu Minhong's words). Huacheng Li Juan's works also include "Distant Sunflower Field", "My Altay", "Remember One and Forget Three and Two", "Train is Leaving Soon" and other 7 works
About the Author
Li Juan: Born in 1979 in the Seventh Agricultural Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, she moved between Sichuan and Xinjiang during her growing up period, and had a life experience on the Altay pasture. She has published "Nine Pieces of Snow", "My Altay", "Corners of Altay", "Remember One and Forget Three or Two", "The Train is Leaving Soon", and long essays such as "Winter Pasture", "The Sheep Road" trilogy, and "The Distant Sunflower Field".
Among them, "The Distant Sunflower Field" won: the 2017 "China Good Book" Award, the 2018 7th "Lu Xun Literature Award", the 2019 7th "China Outstanding Publications" and other national awards and the 2019 Guangdong Province "Five One Project" Award, etc., and has English, Korean, Arabic, Russian, Turkish, and Traditional Chinese versions published, which has generated great response among readers.