1966年,刚一岁的李磊随父母离开上海,来到甘肃省海石湾的冶金建设基地,之后又搬到青海省民河县。1978年,13岁以后他才告别民和县回到了上海,寄居在佛教徒的姑妈家里。当李磊回忆这段日子的时候,觉得他和很多有类似经历的人一样,刚回到城市的时候都有一种惶恐。他感到,像他这样从泥土里“长出来”的孩子,和从钢筋水泥里长出来的孩子比较起来,心理状态是不一样的,有一种更需要土地的情感。 In 1966, just a year-old Li Lei left Shanghai with his parents and arrived at the metallurgical construction base of Hai Shui Wan in Gansu Province before moving to Minhe County in Qinghai Province. In 1978, after he was 13 years old, he told his people to return to Shanghai and settle in the Buddhist aunt’s home. When Lei recalls these days, he felt like many people with similar experiences, he had a panic when he first returned to the city. He felt that children like him “growing up” in the soil were not the same as those who grew up from steel and concrete, and that there was a feeling of even greater need for land.