Background
In 1962, Yefu was born in a village in Lichuan County of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hubei Province, China.
郑世平, 鄭世平
In 1962, Yefu was born in a village in Lichuan County of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hubei Province, China.
His grandpa was a direct male-line descendant of chieftain (土司), his grandfather, Liu Jilu, who had graduated from Huangpu Military Academy, was a general, he also was Chiang Kai-shek"s bodyguard.
According to Yefu"s words, his pen name came from a Chinese Common Saying "Shancun Yefu"(Chinese: 山村野夫. Literally: "People in the mountains") from when he worked in the mountainous region in Hubei Province. After 1949, Yefu"s parents stayed in Mainland China.
They were cast as rightists, and suffered political persecution.
Yefu"s grandfather was brought to be persecuted. At the close of the Cultural Revolution in 1978, Yefu entered the Hubei Institute Foreign Nationalities and started writing poetry.
In 1982, Yefu organized a literary organization named BoZao Shishe (剥枣诗社), and used his pen name Yefu or Tujia Yefu to write articles In 1986, Yefu entered the Chinese Department of Wuhan University, he studied under Yi Zhongtian, organized a literary organization named Houxiandai Shiren Shalong (后现代诗人沙龙), and published his collecion of poems The Wolf Cries In The Night(狼之夜哭).
In 1989, Yefu was arrested for cover the Molecular Delivery Corporation people.
In 1995, Yefu was let out of prison, and he set up shop as a bookseller in Beijing.